Keri Holland

Keri Holland is a senior policy advisor in the Office of Environmental Quality at the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. In this role, she is responsible for the End Plastic Pollution International Collaborative, a public-private partnership, and is a multilateral environmental negotiator at the U.N. Environment Program, on plastic pollution, and with other efforts. Previously at the State Department, Holland was chief of the Multilateral Affairs Division and an advisor to the undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy and the environment. Earlier in her career, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a research assistant at the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Ecosystems Center.