Lyn(da) Goldsworthy is a Research Associate at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and Member of the Centre for Marine Socioecology at the University of Tasmania. Since 1983, she has been actively engaged in  Antarctic and high seas policy development, governance and conservation, from both the non-government and academic perspective., and has attended multiple Antarctic Treaty, CCAMLR and Regional Fisheries Agreements meetings.

She completed her Ph.D. in 2022 at IMAS on the viability of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in the geopolitically dynamic and climate changing environment. Her current research and consultancy focus is on high seas marine governance, and conservation, and responses to climate and biodiversity protection actions.

Lyn has served on many Australian government committees, and is currently a Member of AFMA's SouthMAC Advisory Committee, and CSIRO'S National Benefits Advisory Committee.

Lyn was awarded the Order of Australia (Member) for services to conservation and environment in 1991 and the New Zealand Antarctic Conservation Trophy in 1990.