Sophie Benger

Providing strategic communications, campaigns and advocacy support to environmental and mission-driven organisations. This includes advising on communications and advocacy strategy, campaigns planning, policy messaging and narrative development, drafting and editing reports, policy content and creative writing, supporting media relations, crisis communications and digital engagement.

• • Led global strategic communications for policy, science and research programmes focused on sustainable fisheries and marine biodiversity

• • Designed and delivered communications strategies to influence national and international fisheries policy

• • Developed and led campaigns on vessel tracking, transparency and ocean protection

• • Oversaw internal and external communications planning across 12-month and two year strategy cycles

• • Managed communications budgets for campaigns, projects and organisational profile-building

• • Line managed and developed a team of three communications managers

• • Acted as senior content lead, producing annual reports, policy briefings, white papers, press materials, speeches, social media plans and digital content

• • Strategic communications lead for Governments and Policy, including management of the Under2 Coalition (277 states and regions committed to climate action)

• • Led international communications campaigns for COP28 and COP29, supporting coordinated climate commitments from governments and businesses

• • Supported the development of a new adaptation and resilience workstream within the organisation's 2025–2030 strategy

• • Led strategic planning across annual and multi-year organisational cycles

• • Drafted and edited the Under2 Coalition's annual reports and core web content and planned podcast episodes

• • Managed budgets for campaigns, events and organisational profile-building

• • Line managed staff and led communications delivery for large-scale international events and summits