Jim Pettigrew

Jim Pettigrew, a retired Navy Captain with over 30 years of experience in operational risk management, is the Senior Director of JNT83, an operational risk SME, and an adjunct faculty member at the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies. He is the former Director of the Offshore Energy Safety Board at the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Gulf Research Program (GRP). There, he led initiatives that successfully reduced systemic risks in offshore energy operations. He also directed the GRP’s efforts to support the offshore Energy Transition. Before joining the GRP, Jim served as the Principal Investigator and Director of Operations for the original Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI). OESI provided a forum for dialogue, shared learning, and cooperative research among academia, government, industry, and other non-governmental organizations, while also developing training opportunities for the federal offshore workforce. Throughout his three decades in the Navy, Jim specialized in operational meteorology and oceanography, surface warfare, and information warfare, identifying, managing, and mitigating risk at all operational levels. He had the privilege and honor of serving as the Commanding Officer of the Navy’s global atmospheric and ocean modeling supercomputing center in Monterey, CA, as well as the Commanding Officer of the Navy’s only forward-deployed operational oceanography support center in Yokosuka, Japan. Jim received his MS in Physical Oceanography and Meteorology from the Naval Postgraduate School and his BS in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M University.