Dr. Sarah Glaser leads the Oceans Futures program that develops conservation programming for fisheries at the intersection of climate change, ocean health, and peace and security. She developed the Oceans Futures platform that uses climate, fisheries, security, and socio-economic data to identify areas of the ocean at greatest risk for illegal fishing and fisheries conflict. The Oceans Futures team also develops approaches to IUU fishing, seafood sustainability, Jurisdictional Initiatives, and environmental peacebuilding. Her geographic expertise is in East Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the California Current.

Sarah joined WWF from One Earth Future, a peacebuilding foundation, where she led their efforts at establishing conflict-sensitive fisheries co-management, collecting fisheries data, and quantifying IUU fishing in the Horn of Africa. Her favorite accomplishment was starting a university engagement project in Somalia that brought together students at four universities for online marine science courses and field-based fisheries data collection. Before working at OEF, she had academic appointments at the University of Denver, College of William and Mary, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, the University of Kansas, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Sarah was raised in Kansas but fell in love with sharks through the books and TV series of Jacques Cousteau. She earned her PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography where she studied the food web ecology of North Pacific albacore, racking up hundreds of (seasick) hours aboard commercial and recreational fishing vessels.