About us
A nonprofit run like a lab.
CURRENT exists to rid the oceans of plastic — and to prove it works with open data. We design, deploy and iterate cleanup technology in the field, guided by modelling, measurement and radical transparency about what does and doesn't work.
What guides us
Science first
Every deployment starts as a model and ends as published data. If the numbers don't hold, neither does the plan.
Radical transparency
We publish the setbacks alongside the wins. Trust is the only currency a cleanup nonprofit really has.
Built to scale
We engineer for the size of the problem — designing every system to be replicated, not admired once.
The team
Ada Okafor
Founder & CEO
Marten Roos
Chief Operating Officer
Lena Fischer
Head of Engineering
Diego Salas
Head of Oceans
Priya Anand
Head of Rivers
Tomas Lind
Head of Research
Where the money goes
We publish how every dollar is put to work. Illustrative figures shown.
- Programs & operations84%
- Research & development10%
- Administration6%
Our partners
This work is only possible with partners across science, industry and government.