Amy Merrill is the Chief Executive Officer of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM), the independent global governance body that sets and enforces threshold quality standards for the voluntary carbon market.

Between 2011 and 2021, Amy led the UNFCCC support to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, leading negotiations and drafting that resulted in the Article 6 implementing rules at COP26 (2021). Amy was also the senior lawyer for the Kyoto carbon mechanisms and the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement compliance committees. Before UNFCCC, Amy was a leading carbon and climate finance lawyer in the City of London, working with MDBs and investment banks. After UNFCCC, Amy was senior legal counsel at a natural capital asset manager and then worked as interim COO at ICVCM on secondment from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). Amy is a UK lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience.