OCI Staff

STEVE KRETZMANN
Executive Director
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 successfully campaigned to keep Florida’s coast free from oil & gas drilling and represented various organizations at UN environmental negotiations.

While at the Institute for Policy Studies, Steve helped coordinate a global civil society effort to engage in the World Bank’s Extractive Industries Review, which recommended an end to Bank support for coal and oil projects. He 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.

Steve 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.

Affiliates

Adam Chew
Web Design
email: adam [at] adamchew.com

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

Board of Directors

Michael Brune, Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network

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, Executive Director, The Ruckus Society.