Dr. Tony Walker is a Professor at the School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University in Canada. Tony has studied the impacts of plastic pollution for over 30 years. His first exposure to the devastating impacts of plastic pollution was removing plastic nets, rope and packaging bands from entangled Antarctic fur seals in Antartica in the early 1990s. Since then, he has become increasingly involved in research and helping to develop policies to help curb plastic and microplastic pollution.

He helped participate in a Leaders and Experts Roundtable on Plastics and Marine Litter to help develop the Ocean Plastics Charter for Canada’s 2018 G7 presidency. He participated in the Canadian Science Symposium on Plastics to inform represented Canada at the G7 Science Meeting on Plastic Pollution in Paris, France. He has published extensively on policies to reduce the impact of plastic pollution. He was Associate Editor for Marine Pollution Bulletin for five years and is currently an Editor for Cambridge Prisms: Plastics. When not working, Tony combines his passion for running and reducing plastic pollution by plogging along the trails in Nova Scotia, Canada.