Brad Sewell

Senior Director, Oceans Division, Nature Program

Brad Sewell has been an advocate for our nation’s oceans and coasts for more than two decades. He has worked to sustain and rebuild marine fisheries, conserve ocean habitat and its special places like the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, restore wetland ecosystems, and protect imperiled wildlife. Sewell has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of Law and Columbia's School of Public Health, Division of Environmental Sciences. He has a JD from the Columbia University School of Law, a MPH from the Division of Environmental Sciences at the Columbia University School of Public Health, and a bachelor's degree from Stanford University. Prior to joining NRDC, Sewell was at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. He is based in New York City.

NRDC in Action

The Lawyer and the Sea

Brad Sewell is determined to protect our most endangered marine creatures. Even the ugly ones.