Peter V. Emerson is the founding partner of Emerson Associates International, a company providing political and communications strategies to political parties, governments, corporations and NGOs; an Associate in the Division on Addictions, Harvard Medical School's Cambridge Health Alliance and the Founder of Conversations at Harvard; Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London. He is also a NOAA certified Aquanaut and a former advisor to Captain Jacques Yves-Cousteau. Peter served on the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere and is currently a member of the Explorers Club and the American Academy of Underwater Sciences.