Since the release of A Plastic Oceans in 2016, award-winning journalist and film director, Craig Leeson has travelled the world speaking to corporations, academia, NGOs, communities, and regulatory and policy-making entities engaging with them through the film and the education curriculum created by Plastic Oceans International. He is a strong supporter of educating young people on single-use plastics; they can exert deep influence on their parents’ habits.

Craig will highlight what is being done toward the development of alternative plastic products and sustainability systems and his involvement in collaborative efforts to transform global economies and financial systems to non-single-use plastics economies through transition projects like the Ellen MacArthur circular economy and the Loop system.

He is an advisor to The Klosters Forum and the Chief Global Evangelist for Plastic Oceans International. Craig also advises and moderates panels for the Asian Development Bank, helping its President to launch the new US$5 billion healthy oceans initiative. He is an environmental advisor to the Colombian Inspector General’s office, helping to examine environmental issues and bringing solutions to tourist cities like Santa Marta. He has also advised and helped push through legislation to ban single-use plastics in Colombia’s Congress. He has spoken on a Congressional single-use plastics panel in Mexico, and was involved in efforts that saw Mexico City ban single-use plastics several weeks ago.