With a love of the sea since college, Julie Packard has been a leader for the environmental protection of the world’s oceans and the seafood they produce. As the executive director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, she has redefined its role as a powerful force for conservation.
After graduating with degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1934, Bill Hewlett (r) and David Packard forged a friendship during a two-week camping and fishing trip in Colorado. Photo: HP
Packard is one of four children of Lucile and David Packard, a co-founder of technology giant Hewlett-Packard. With the help of her sister, she was instrumental in convincing their parents to form the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation, and help fund its new building, an independent ocean research institute and the aquarium’s Seafood Watch program.
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