Lynn Sorrentino, MSc

Ms Sorrentino is a senior project manager specialising in science-policy integration, capacity building and plastics governance, with a record of delivering complex, multi-stakeholder environmental initiatives across more than 20 countries. Her expertise spans marine conservation, plastics pollution policy and circular economy transitions, built over five and a half years at IUCN in the Policy and Ocean teams, and earlier at the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands and universities in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. She holds an MSc in Marine Environmental Protection from Bangor University (Distinction), is an accredited HERMES Project Management practitioner, and is a Fellow of the University of Geneva and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

As an IUCN delegate to the INC negotiations on the Global Plastics Treaty and to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions COPs, she linked scientific evidence to policy development on pressing global issues. She translates complex science and policy into training materials, online courses, guidebooks, scientific papers and digital content for diverse audiences, and combines clear agenda-setting, stakeholder coordination and strategic communications to deliver donor-funded, multi-country projects on time and within budget. Her key achievements at IUCN include managing *Putting Sharks on the Map*, the criteria for identifying Important Shark and Ray Areas, developed with the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group, and leading multi-country plastic pollution and capacity-building projects supporting the Global Plastics Treaty. With her former line manager, she secured CHF 19 million from international donors. Her current research focuses on mangroves and plastics pollution, the environmental impacts of data centres and AI, and plastic pollution in the Mediterranean Sea.