Sam Durrance
Senior Technical Adviser
Sam Durrance is a marine biologist with an MSc in International Marine Environmental Consultancy and background in fisheries resource management.
Since joining ITOPF in 2018, he has attended on-site for several shipping incidents of various scales and involving varying pollutants. In particular, Sam has gained significant experience of plastic pellet spills in Asia, Africa and Europe.
Sam leads ITOPF’s Plastics Working Group and Fisheries Working Group.