IAPH is pleased to announce that Rhona Macdonald is promoted to the position of senior sustainability advisor & IMO liaison officer. In her new role, Rhona will have greater oversight of, and input to, IAPH’s critical sustainability initiatives and policy work, while also continuing to represent IAPH at meetings of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). Rhona will continue to manage a dual role with the British Ports Association (BPA). In recent years, Rhona has been relied upon as IAPH’s ‘IMO explainer,’ providing essential regulatory briefings to the membership. Via her sustainability expertise, she has also provided invaluable support to IAPH’s Climate & Energy and Risk & Resilience technical committees and to the assessment of projects submitted to the association’s World Ports Sustainability Program database. Meanwhile, in her work for the BPA, Rhona built the Net Zero Maturity Assessment Tool, a self-assessment and benchmarking tool to measure ports progress towards Net Zero. Rhona joined the IAPH and BPA in April 2021, after completing an MSc in Sustainability and Environmental Studies. You can read more here.
