Susan Jackson
President, International Seafood Sustainability Foundation

Susan Jackson is the founding president of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF), a nonprofit, non-governmental organization established in 2009 to help the seafood industry undertake science-based initiatives to maintain tuna populations and their ecosystems at sustainable levels of abundance.

Prior to joining ISSF, Ms. Jackson was the vice president for government and industry relations and seafood sourcing for Del Monte Foods. Her responsibilities in this role included the conduct of government relations at the federal, state and local levels, as well as representing Del Monte to trade and industry associations.  Ms. Jackson was also responsible for the purchase of all raw tuna and contracting of tuna co-pack manufacturing for Del Monte’s StarKist brand.

Ms. Jackson brings mission-related experience and insight to her leadership role at ISSF based on her work helping StarKist to develop its sustainability policy for tuna sourcing and her membership on Del Monte’s task force for companywide sustainability initiatives.
 
Ms. Jackson joined the H.J. Heinz Company in 1997 as an attorney in the company law department, managing litigation worldwide, North American employment law and general contractual issues for the StarKist business.  In 2001, she became director, tuna procurement for StarKist.  Del Monte Foods acquired StarKist in 2002, and Ms. Jackson gained additional responsibility for seafood sourcing and other procurement activities.  Prior to her work with Heinz and Del Monte Foods, Ms. Jackson practiced law as a private litigator for seven years

Ms. Jackson graduated from The University of Notre Dame in 1986 with a B.S. in Economics and obtained her law degree from Duke University in 1990.  She is married and has two children, a son and a daughter.

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