Sue Fisher
Senior Policy Advisor, Marine Wildlife Program
Senior Policy Advisor, Terrestrial Wildlife Program
Sue works with AWI’s Marine Wildlife and Terrestrial Wildlife teams to advise on policy relating to the management and conservation of whales, dolphins, and other endangered species hunted or captured for trade. She started working with AWI in 2011 as a consultant, and served as acting marine policy director on international issues for a year before taking on her current role.
Sue hails from the United Kingdom, where she trained as a lawyer, but left private practice to work in endangered species advocacy for UK and US conservation and animal welfare NGOs.
She now lives in the United States, where she is “Mum” to two teenage boys—who share their parents’ love of animals and the outdoors—and to Flash the rescue dog. She loves fostering dogs coming from overcrowded shelters around the United States to a new life in the Pacific Northwest. For relaxation, she enjoys making 3-D art.