--- title: Wendy Schmidt | TIME description: Schmidt is co-founder and president of the Schmidt Ocean Institute and co-founder of Schmidt Sciences. canonical: https://time.com/author/wendy-schmidt/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/wendy-schmidt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Wendy Schmidt ## Wendy Schmidt Schmidt is co-founder and president of the Schmidt Ocean Institute and co-founder of Schmidt Sciences. ## Wendy Schmidt *  Jul 16, 2026 ### [Is This the End of the Endless Frontier?](https://time.com/article/2026/07/16/is-this-the-end-of-the-endless-frontier-/) “Our country needs a new consensus on how to support science,” write Eric and Wendy Schmidt. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 30, 2025 ### [Column: Saving Our Mysterious Oceans](https://time.com/7298700/why-we-must-protect-the-ocean/) The more we explore and protect the ocean, the more we benefit, whether in the form of economic retu... [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Dec 1, 2023 ### [Column: The Power of Data to Fight Climate Destruction](https://time.com/6341252/climate-destruction-data-cop28/) It's time for climate attribution science to focus more on vulnerable countries. [CLIMATE](/section/climate/) *  Nov 1, 2022 ### [We're Not Using AI to Its Fullest Human Potential](https://time.com/6227118/eric-schmidt-ai-human-intelligence/) Despite remarkable advances in AI, it is not yet making major scientific breakthroughs. That's becau... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: {"meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"edges":\[\],"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection"},"twitter\_card":null,"\_\_typename":"Seo"} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/wendy-schmidt/","name":"Wendy Schmidt"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/wendy-schmidt/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/wendy-schmidt/"},"name":"Wendy Schmidt","jobTitle":"Contributor","description":"Schmidt is co-founder and president of the Schmidt Ocean Institute and co-founder of Schmidt Sciences.","url":"https://time.com/author/wendy-schmidt/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```