Managing Director, Strategic Advocacy Bureau
Port of Long Beach
In 2025, the Port of Long Beach moved a record 9.9 million TEUs, captured 48.9% of San Pedro Bay cargo and supported 2.7 million jobs nationwide – and Eleanor Torres is the executive who keeps that success trusted, funded and legible to the world. As managing director of the Strategic Advocacy Bureau, she integrates government relations, communications and community engagement, overseeing a $3 million annual nonprofit sponsorship program, a $65 million community grants commitment unmatched by any U.S. seaport and the advocacy infrastructure behind a $3.2 billion capacity expansion. She is the quiet force behind the port’s loudest numbers.
Words To Describe Them: Strategic, bridge-builder, crisis-calm, community-anchored, relentless, indispensable
From the Indispensable: “I believe large public institutions have a responsibility to leave communities better than they found them. At the Port of Long Beach, every infrastructure investment, every government relationship and every community partnership has real consequences for people’s health, livelihoods and opportunities. That is what drives me: the knowledge that the work is never abstract. I am inspired by the teams I serve alongside, the nonprofit organizations we support and the chance to show that global trade, environmental stewardship and community well-being are not competing priorities; they are the same mission.”