Career
Since 2019 Gardner has been the Director of the Ecosystems Division at the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya. She leads global programmes to support countries in the implementation of nature-based solutions for sustainable development including for biodiversity protection, ecosystem restoration, and disaster risk reduction. Her work on ocean conservation included leading the process that achieved a global agreement to negotiate a treaty to end plastic pollution.
Prior, she served as Deputy Director and Chief of Staff for the U.S. Northeast Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Woods Hole, USA (2012-2019) and as Deputy Director in the Office of Science and Technology Cooperation at the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C., USA (2010-2012). As Deputy Director she led efforts on advancing women and girls in science and established the ASEAN-U.S. Science Prize for Women [2] .
From 2006 until 2010, Gardner worked as AAAS Science Diplomacy Fellow and Senior Foreign Affairs Officer in the Bureau of Ocean, Environment and Science at the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C., USA.
Gardner started her career as marine ecologist at the Center for Coastal Studies, School for Field Studies in Puerto San Carlos, Mexico (1996-2000), followed by a position for the Mexican Federal Government as marine scientist and programme director at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste in La Paz, Mexico (2000-2006) where Gardner created the agency’s first Marine Ecotoxicology Programme.
Gardner's research has generated scientific publications in the fields of marine ecology, natural resource management, protected species conservation, and fisheries. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan-Gardner-12
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