Martin Sommerkorn
About
Dr. Martin Sommerkorn is Head of Conservation for the WWF Arctic Programme, where he brings science underscoring the role of nature for resilience and sustainability to the policy-making table. Martin is leading WWF’s Arctic work on nature conservation, ecosystem management, governance, and climate change. He also co-chairs WWF’s global work on the ocean and climate change, and represents WWF at the forefront of international events and negotiations.
Martin is passionate about developing solutions that allow people to live in harmony with nature, such as WWF’s recent ArcNet – an Arctic Ocean Network of Priority Areas for Conservation. Martin served as coordinating lead author of the IPCC’s Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate and contributes as expert and lead author to Arctic Council projects and assessments.
Before joining WWF in 2008, Martin’s research career as an Arctic ecosystem ecologist allowed him to gather first-hand experience of the Arctic’s unique places, peoples, and concerns over more than 20 years of fieldwork and travels across Siberia, Alaska, Greenland, Svalbard and Scandinavia.
