Ryan is a new senior manager for the Blue Nature Alliance, recently joining the team in August 2021. Among other priorities, he will be taking over coordination of monitoring and evaluation and annual planning efforts, and will lead the Alliance’s Antarctic site engagement. He brings more than 8 years of experience working with The Pew Charitable Trusts to secure a network of marine protected areas in Antarctica’s Southern Ocean. He served as the NGO representative to the US government delegation at the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) for six years, and played a central role in developing the strategy that secured the Ross Sea Protected Area in 2016. His background also includes several years working on public health advocacy for the United Nations Population Fund in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and corporate social responsibility at MTV Networks International.