Mariann Lloyd-Smith

Mariann Lloyd-Smith is an Australian scientist and environmentalist known for her work on chemical safety and waste management. She is a founder of the National Toxics Network (NTN) and has worked extensively with international organizations, including the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN), to address toxic pollution and its impact on communities.

Life Lloyd-Smith's background includes legal training, and she obtained a PhD from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Law Faculty. Her father was in the military and spent the later years of his career dismantling World War II chemical warfare stockpiles in the Pacific. which examines environmental justice movements in the country. In 2011, she has also contributed to assessments of toxic pollution incidents, such as the Orica chemical leak in New South Wales, Australia, as an adviser to the federal Labor government's National Chemicals Notifications and Assessment Scheme.

International activities

IPEN Co-chairs Mariann Lloyd-Smith and Olga Speranskaya at the Stockholm Convention meeting in 2011.Lloyd-Smith has participated in global negotiations related to chemical safety, including those under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Basel and Rotterdam Conventions, and the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM). She has served as a member of the UN Expert Group on Climate Change and Chemicals and has been involved in developing chemical safety policies at the OECD and UNEP.

Lloyd-Smith's contributions to chemical policy and advocacy have had a lasting impact on environmental health regulations, particularly in relation to the control of toxic substances. In 2017, she received the “Gender Pioneers for a Future Detoxified” award from the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions for her work.