Lynn Scarlett is the global managing director for public policy at The Nature Conservancy, leading policy in the United States and the 35 countries in which the Conservancy operates with a focus on climate and nature-based solutions. Most recently, she was the deputy secretary and chief operating officer of the U.S. Department of the Interior and served at Interior as the Acting Secretary of the Interior in 2006. She chairs the Science Advisory Board of NOAA, co-chairs the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives Council established in 2014 by the U.S. Department of the Interior, and co-chairs the National Academy of Sciences Sustainability Roundtable.