Contemporary Issues in PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) Annual Lecture

"On our watch: the race against time for the ocean"

The Contemporary Issues in PRME Annual Lecture is hosted by the UWA Business School. The 2025 oration will be given by Paul Gamblin, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Marine Conservation Society.

Our coast is a crucible that forges many of our most indelible memories.

Beach and ocean photos are disproportionately represented in many a cherished, yellowing family album and the contemporary digital equivalents. So deeply intrinsic to our lives and identity is the coast and the sea that it’s impossible, bordering on absurd, to imagine life in Australia without it.

But despite the ocean’s importance to many of us, it feels like we’re failing to read its cues.

Informed by experience, Paul will discuss the significance of the ocean to our sense of identity and purpose, and the urgent need for us to care and look after the ocean when essential parts of our coast and marine environment are changing, deteriorating, before our very eyes.