Dr. Iris M. Ziegler was born in 1966. She holds a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University in Munich, Germany and an Executive MBA from the Business School St. Gallen, Switzerland.
She has been active in shark conservation since 2015, when she joined Sharkproject in Germany and started building up the unit for International Cooperation at Sharkproject in 2017, focusing on international policy advocacy for elasmobranchs and ocean governance but also getting more and more involved into sustainable fisheries policies.
Since 2018 she has also been the Vice President of Make Stewardship Count, a Swiss based charitable society that has engaged since 2018 trying to improve the Fisheries Standard of the Marine Stewardship Council, focusing on improvements of Principle 2.
In 2024 she left Sharkproject to take over the role as head of fisheries policies and ocean advocacy at Deutsche Stiftung Meeresschutz (DSM), a German Foundation for Marine Conservation.
For DSM, she is the accredited observer at IOTC, ICCAT and IATTC but also engages in other RFMOs and RFBs on a regular basis and also engages in fisheries policies at EU level. Furthermore, she represents Seas at Risk at the Long Distance Advisory Council of the European Union (LDAC) and is a Member of the Management Committee of Seas at Risk.
In her RFMO work she advocates for the sustainable management of targeted shark stocks through the development of MSE tested Management Procedures and the application of effective bycatch mitigations for elasmobranch bycatch, calling for avoidance, reduction and remediation measures and the application of the Precautionary Principle in the absence of sufficient data.
She has published several papers on shark conservation related topics and has participated in all IOTC and ICCAT Commission Meetings since 2020.
Sharks are her passion and priority concern and whenever possible she also tries to be with them in their environment, having dived with sharks for more than 20 years in all oceans.
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