Andrew Russell

Global Marine Sustainability Lead - Mars Petcare

Andrew is the Global Marine Sustainability Lead for Mars Petcare, based in the UK. His role incorporates both internal sourcing strategies and external project engagement. He is a specialist in marine science and has been involved with both NGOs and businesses focused on marine ecology and sustainability. This has included managing Fishery Improvement Projects, assessing risks in supply chains for wild caught and aquaculture, setting corrective actions to address these, and collaborating with partners to drive industry improvements.

At Mars Petcare there is an ambition to not only drive responsible sourcing practices within the business that improve the sustainability of fish sources, but to also engage with other businesses and NGOs to bring about industry wide improvements. As Mars Petcare is sourcing on a global scale, we feel it necessary to engage at this same scale to enact real change though Fishery Improvement Projects. It is for this same reason that, through our partnership with WWF, we have joined this multi-stakeholder collaboration to improve sustainability of fisheries on a large scale.