# Amanda Stern-Pirlot

Chief Standards Officer, Marine Stewardship Council

Amanda is chief standards officer at Marine Stewardship Council, where she leads the development, management, and review of the MSC fisheries and chain of custody standards.

She is responsible for ensuring the standards remain robust, science-based, and relevant for global sustainable fishing and seafood traceability.

Her role involves overseeing the technical integrity of the standards, managing stakeholder engagement in the standard-setting processes, and directing the organisation's work on assurance and standard-related policy to drive positive change in marine conservation and fisheries management.

She currently serves on the technical board of fisheryprogress.org and the board of directors for the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF).

Prior to her work at MSC Amanda was vice-president of science at MRAG Americas, a marine resources consultancy company that she ensured maintained a strong science and evidence-based ethos and led fishery certification assessments around the world.

She received an M.S. in marine ecology from the University of Bremen.

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