WENDY SCHMIDT is a philanthropist and investor who has spent nearly two decades creating organizations that work with communities around the world to advance clean energy, resilient food systems, healthy oceans and human rights. The critical interconnections between human activity, the land we live on and the ocean we depend upon are the central drivers of Wendy’s philanthropic work. Through a combination of grants and investments, Wendy’s philanthropic work supports research and science, community organization, promising leaders and the development of innovative technologies. Wendy is president and co-founder of the Schmidt Family Foundation and Schmidt Ocean Institute, which she and her husband Eric founded. They also founded Schmidt Sciences.