Malin Pinsky is a biologist with expertise in ocean conservation, climate change, and genomics, and he leads the Global Change Research Group as an Associate Professor at the University of California Santa Cruz. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, is an Earth Leadership Fellow, and was awarded the 2024 Peter Larkin Award in Fisheries Science. Pinsky is a science advisor for the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and an editor for Ecology Letters and for The Philippine Journal of Fisheries.