OCI Staff

Steve Kretzmann
Executive Director
email: steve [at] priceofoil.org

Steve Kretzmann has worked on energy issues and the global oil industry for the last twenty years. After eight years with Greenpeace USA, he served as the environmental advisor to Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People in Nigeria and was a co-founder of the human rights and environmental organization Project Underground. In 1997, he conducted the first independent soil and water samples in Ogoni, which quantified the Ogoni claim of Shell’s pollution and double standards on their land. He has also campaigned to keep Florida’s coast free from oil & gas drilling and represented various organizations at UN environmental negotiations.

Steve has authored numerous articles and reports and is a regular commentator on issues of corporate accountability, transparency, the global oil industry, environmental and human rights.  He founded Oil Change International in 2005 in order to carry out strategic, systemic campaigns focused on the oil industry. He lives outside of Washington DC.

Elizabeth Bast
Managing Director
email: ebast [at] priceofoil.org

Elizabeth Bast brings ten years of experience in the environmental field, with five years of international environmental campaigning and program management. Prior to working at Oil Change, Elizabeth served as International Program Director at Friends of the Earth U.S., where she led the organization’s international climate campaign. Elizabeth has also worked at Worldwatch Institute and the Environmental Policy Center, and holds a Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an undergraduate degree from Stanford University. She has written and spoken on international climate and energy policy issues, including the UN climate negotiations and the World Bank’s energy portfolio. As Managing Director at Oil Change, she is responsible for organizational development and administration.

Andrew Rowell
Contributing Editor, The Price of Oil
email: andy [at] priceofoil.org

Board of Directors

Michael Brune, Executive Director, Sierra Club

Cole Frates, Co-Founder, Renewable Resources Group & EndOil

Stephen Kretzmann, Executive Director, Oil Change International

Katherine Redford, Esq., Co-Founder and US Office Director of EarthRights International (ERI)

John Sellers, Founder, Agit-Pop