Dr. John T. Oliver

Dr. John T. Oliver is the Senior Ocean Policy Advisor, Emerging Policy Staff, at U.S. Coast Guard headquarters. His primary areas of professional focus include ocean policy, changing conditions in the Arctic, the impacts of climate change, and marine planning.

A graduate of Stanford University (B.A.) and the University of Washington School of Law (J.D.), he also holds an LL.M. and S.J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in ocean law and policy, and teaches a seminar, "National Security and the Law of the Sea," as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Law Center. In 2003, Dr. Oliver retired after 30 years as a captain in the U.S. Navy JAG Corps. His Navy assignments included Chief Judge, Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals, acting DoD Representative for Ocean Policy Affairs, Director of OJAG's International Law Division, and Ocean Policy Advisor on the Joint Staff.