Dr. Beth Polidoro

Dr. Beth Polidoro is Research Director within the MSC Science and Standards Team. Polidoro leads MSC efforts to collate relevant data sets and provide a diversity of analyses, tools and research products for a variety of stakeholders. She also oversees collaborative MSC studies on the impacts of certification programs on marine biodiversity, the ocean environment, and socio-economic indicators. 

Prior to joining the MSC, Polidoro was a full-time Associate Professor at Arizona State University (ASU) where she led research teams and taught classes in Marine Conservation Ecology and Environmental Chemistry.

Polidoro has also worked as a Research Scientist for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to quantify the impacts of fisheries, pollution, climate change and other threats on more than 20,000 marine species for inclusion on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 

Now full-time with the MSC, Polidoro still maintains a number of affiliations and close collaborations with ASU and IUCN.

Those positions include: Deputy Director, ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes; Associate Professor, ASU School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Co-Chair of IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Marine Fishes Specialist Group; Red List Coordinator, IUCN SSC Reef Building Corals Specialist Group; and US Representative, IUCN SSC Marine Conservation Committee. 

Ph.D. in Soil, Land and Water Resources, University of Idaho and Centro Agronómico de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) Costa Rica.