Lynn Wagner
Senior Director, International Environmental Governance
Lynn M. Wagner is the Senior Director of the International Environmental Governance program at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). In this role, she oversees projects that seek to increase the accountability of decision making for sustainable development policy, enhance engagement in multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) implementation, and develop indicator and reporting tools.
Wagner began working with IISD in 1994 as a writer for the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, and she continues to observe and analyze multilateral environmental negotiations with IISD’s flagship publication. She also served as the Senior Manager of IISD Reporting Services’ Knowledge Management Projects from 2012-2016, and edited IISD Reporting Services' MEA Bulletin from 2006-2011.
She received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and has taught environmental negotiation courses and led negotiation simulations at SAIS and the University of Nevada, Reno.