STUART J. GREEN Book
Ocean strategist · Institutional adviser · Author

About Stuart J. Green

I began my career in marine science, working with coastal communities and fisheries systems in Southeast Asia.

Over the following three decades, that work developed into a career spanning international development, ocean governance, institutional strategy and advisory roles.

The common thread has been understanding how complex systems function, why institutions struggle to adapt and what is required to translate strategy into action.

I founded Blue-Green Advisors in 2017 to provide specialist advisory services to organisations working across the ocean economy.

Alongside that work, I have developed a wider interest in institutional design and operating models.

The Regenerate Leap brings together ideas from this professional experience with my understanding of irreversible change.

The Regenerate Leap draws on professional experience, ecological thinking and the author's experience of irreversible personal change. These experiences informed the development of the method; they do not constitute independent scientific validation.

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In my own words

I have spent thirty years at the point where ocean systems meet the institutions that are supposed to govern them. Three of those years were spent living and working with fishing communities on the Danajon Bank double barrier reef in the Philippines. Since then I have advised development banks, foundations, governments and international seafood-industry collaborations.

Blue-Green Advisors is the firm I founded in 2017. It designs enforceable ocean and coastal strategy for governments, development banks, philanthropies and ocean-linked business, with governance, capital, technology and operations built as one system. Alongside it I advise boards and chief executives outside the ocean sector on the same problem, and I wrote The Regenerate Leap to set out the method.

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Professional Background

Selected professional experience

  • Founder, Blue-Green Advisors (2017)
  • Co-lead author, ADB Oceans and Coral Reefs in Asia and the Pacific (2025)
  • Ocean strategy and technical advisory connected to the UK FCDO COAST programme, in which Blue-Green Advisors is a consortium partner
  • Senior Consultant, Seafood Task Force (appointed January 2026)
  • Author, The Regenerate Leap
  • Author, Blue Ring, a fortnightly newsletter on ocean capital and governance

Previously

  • Board member, Blue Ventures
  • Board member, Marine Stewardship Council

Education

  • MBA, University of Leicester
  • MSc Coastal Zone Management, Ulster University
  • BSc Biology (Fisheries Science), University of Hull

Based in London, working across the Indo-Pacific, the Pacific, East Africa and Europe.

Full CV available on request.

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Where the work connects

Where the Work Connects

Marine science taught me to understand the relationship between systems and the conditions in which they operate.

Institutional advisory work showed me how frequently organisational arrangements fail to adjust when those conditions change.

My writing explores what leaders can do when the gap becomes impossible to ignore.

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