Roxanne Sharif is the Director of Sustainability at the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI), where she leads the association’s non-policy sustainability initiatives, guiding research, on-the-ground activations, and cross-sector collaborations across the metal can’s value chain. Her work focuses on increasing recycling rates for all metal can types, strengthening the metal can’s leading sustainability performance, and advancing high-impact programs that reinforce metal packaging’s role in a domestic, resilient circular economy. She serves as a primary sustainability resource to CMI members and external partners, represents the association publicly, and helps build consensus, while navigating the evolving landscape of sustainability risks and opportunities.