Amanda Stern-Pirlot, MS
Vice President: Science

Amanda Stern-Pirlot joined MRAG Americas in 2014 and is now our Vice President: Science and serves on our Executive Team. Amanda provides technical oversight of all projects, ensuring MRAG Americas maintains a strong science- and evidence-based ethos. She also oversees our growing portfolio of fisheries certification projects under the MSC, RFM, and FISH Standard for Crew standards. Amanda is an MSc graduate in Marine Ecology and Fisheries Biology from the University of Bremen, Center for Marine Tropical Ecology (ZMT).  Throughout her career, she has worked with many scientists, conservationists, fisheries managers and producer groups on international fisheries sustainability issues. With the Institute for Marine Research (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany, she led a work package on simple indicators for sustainability within the EU-funded international cooperation project INCOFISH. This was followed by 5 years in the Standards Department at MSC in London developing standards, policies, and assessment methods informed by best practices in global fisheries management. She was Resources Analyst of the Alaska pollock industry in the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council focusing on bycatch and ecosystem-based management issues, and managing the operations of the offshore pollock cooperative. She has co-authored publications on fisheries sustainability in the developing world and the functioning of sustainability standards as an instrument for transforming fisheries to a sustainable basis.