Jim Simon

Jim Simon is President of Oceana. For nearly 20 years, Simon has made the environment the focus of his legal career, holding leadership positions in government and nonprofits, and advising businesses on management strategy and operations.

Simon is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1994 through 2000. There he supervised several sections of attorneys, including those handling environmental criminal enforcement, appeals of environmental cases to higher courts, policy, legislation, international treaty implementation and negotiation, and other matters.

Most recently, Simon worked as a business consultant with McKinsey & Co. His clients were CEOs and senior managers in health care, finance, and nonprofit companies, and he worked on diverse issues including financial strategy and customer-service operations.