Samm Sherman is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and with TRAFFIC International. She is currently working on a management risk assessment of the most traded shark and ray species globally and the IUCN update on the status of all shark and ray species. Samm is also the Vice President of the Oceania Chondrichthyan Society and a member of the IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group in the Asian Region. To follow her updates, follow her on Twitter.