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The Honorable Tim Gal- Kevin Hardy is President laudet, PhD, Rear Admiral, of Global Ocean Design,

U.S. Navy (ret) is the CEO of creating components

Ocean STL Consulting and and subsystems for un- host of The American Blue manned vehicles, follow-

Economy Podcast. He serves ing a career at Scripps on several boards, is a fellow Institution of Oceanogra- at The Explorer’s Club, and is phy/UCSD. He holds pat- a strategic advisor for a few ents in the ? eld of ocean dozen startups, research in- landers. He is on the stitutions, and nonpro? ts in academic advisory board the ocean, weather, climate, of Instituto Milenio de and space sectors. Gallaudet Oceanografía at the Uni-

Gallaudet Hardy is a former acting Undersec- versidad de Concepción, retary and Assistant Secre- Chile. Hardy received an honorary Doctor of Science de- tary of Commerce, acting and Deputy Administrator of the gree from Shanghai Ocean University in 2018. He pro-

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), posed making thick wall glass spheres to Nautilus Ma- and Oceanographer of the Navy. He has a bachelor’s de- rine Service/Vitrovex (Germany) that opened the hadal gree from the U.S. Naval Academy, and master and doc- depths to routine exploration. He writes for the Journal toral degrees from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. of Diving History and the MTR.

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