Meet our team
Meet the men and women who make the magic happen at the Charles Darwin Foundation and its Research Station.
Meet our team
Rakan Zahawi
Executive Director and CEO
Renato Freire
IT Assistant
Rosita Calderón Barrera
Researcher
Roxana Bazurto
Warehouse Manager
Sarah Ryan Enright
Principal Investigator - Ocean Governance
Sergio Zamora
Junior Promoter
Simon McKinley
Junior Spatial Ecologist
Solange Andrade
Research Assistant
Stefan Loosveld
Institutional Promotion Coordinator
Stuart Banks
Principal Investigator - Deep-Ocean Exploration & Conservation
Ursula Ellecosta
Donor Relations Officer
Viviana Caiza
Treasurer
William Bensted-Smith
Investigator
Wilson Carrión
Maintenance Assistant
Wilson Iñiguez
Junior Investigator, Marine Biologist
Yuliana Bajaña
Administrative Assistant for the Deep Ocean Program
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