Roz Savage is an ocean rower, environmental campaigner, author, and speaker. In 2011 she became the first woman to row across the Indian Ocean, in 2010 she became the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean. Coupled with her solo row across the Atlantic in 2005-6, she has now rowed over 15,000 miles, taken 5 million oar strokes, and spent cumulatively nearly a year and a half of her life at sea in a 23- foot rowboat.

She is a United Nations Climate Hero, an Athlete Ambassador for 350.org, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and in 2010 was named Adventurer of The Year by National Geographic.