Alexis Grosskopf

Executive Chair - OceanHub Africa

Alexis Grosskopf is the Founder of OceanHub Africa (OHA), an ocean-impact catalyst focusing on strengthening the development and adoption of new sustainable ocean solutions in Africa. Alongside OHA, Alexis co-founded the annual Ocean Innovation Africa summit to promote innovative technologies, policies and finance to further sustainable blue growth continentally and 1000 Ocean Startups Coalition working to mainstream ocean-impact innovation and investment globally. He is an Edinburgh Ocean Leader fellow (2023), holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering, an MSc in Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London and an Impact Finance certificate from Oxford University. Former management and sustainable development consultant, he has been working in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation since 2011, and 2017 in Africa. His other leadership positions include the Great Blue Wall initiative, the Ocean-Climate Platform, the UN Ocean Decade task force for Africa, OECD expert for Blue Economy ODA guidelines and the AU/EU-backed Ocean Governance Strategy Group.