Josep L. Pelegrí is an oceanographer and educator, a specialist in ocean circulation, biogeochemical processes and climate change, with a holistic planetary vision. He has extensive experience in industry and the university sector, and since 2003 had been a researcher at the Institut de Ciències de Mar in Barcelona (ICM-CSIC). He is strongly committed to outreach, communication and citizen participation in issues of planetary health and awareness, currently within the framework of the European Union Ocean Mission and the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. He has published over 130 scientific articles and 70 essays, edited 7 books, supervised 21 PhD and 30 MSc theses, and participated in numerous oceanographic campaigns. He served as Dean of the School of Marine Sciences at the Universidad de Las Palmas (1992-2002), Spanish National Coordinator for Earth Sciences (2006-2010) and ICM-CSIC Director (2008-2022).