Inger Andersen assumed office as Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in January 2015 and served through May 2019. Ms Andersen has more than 30 years of experience in international development economics, environmental sustainability and policy-making.
Helen Anthem is Senior Technical Specialist: Gender, Livelihoods and Governance at Fauna & Flora International (FFI), an IUCN Member organisation.
Georges Bazongo became Tree Aid’s Director of Operations in July 2020 having previously been Tree Aid’s Director of West Africa Operations.
Elizabeth Bennett is Vice President for Species Conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), an IUCN Member organisation. She received her PhD from Cambridge University for primate research in Peninsular Malaysia.
Dr Joao Campari is Global Leader of Food Practice at IUCN Member organisation WWF, and Chair of the UN Food Systems Summit Action Track 3 on boosting nature-positive production.
Topis is a Professor at the Biological Research Center of the Autonomous University of the State Morelos, in
Dr Rosie Cooney is Chair of the IUCN SSC/CEESP Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group and Visiting Fellow in the School of Biology, Earth and Environmental Sciences at University of New South Wales, Australia.
Poonam Dhanwatey is an Indian wildlife conservationist known for her work towards mitigating human-tiger conflict and involving communities in conservation.
Matthew Gollock is the Senior Marine and Freshwater Programme Manager at the Zoological Society of London; a member of both the IUCN SSC Marine and Freshwater Conservation Committees; and Chair of t
Scott Hajost is the Managing Director of the Global Wildlife Whistleblower Program at the National Whistleblower Center in Washington, D.C. – an IUCN Member organisation.
Dr Ian Harrison is Freshwater Specialist for Conservation International’s Moore Center for Science.
Jonny Hughes is Chief Executive Officer of WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre) which works in collaboration with United Nations Environment Programme as UNEP-WCMC, based in Cambridge, UK.
David Johnson is Chief Executive Officer of the Margaret Pyke Trust, an IUCN Member organisation. In this role he leads the Trust’s work to change conservation policy to recognise the importance of removing barriers to family planning, for both human and environmental health.
Yolanda Kakabadse is an Ecuadorian environmentalist and Chair of the Rio Doce Panel. She was President of IUCN from 1996 to 2004, Ecuador’s Minister of the Environment from 1998 to 2000, and President of WWF International from 2010 to 2017.
Dr. William (Billy) Karesh is the Executive Vice President for Health and Policy for EcoHealth Alliance and the Co-chair of the IUCN SSC Wildlife Health Specialist Group.
Richard Kock is a wildlife veterinary ecologist, infectious disease researcher and conservationist and Co-chair of the IUCN SSC Wildlife Health Specialist Group. He has worked almost entirely in the field of wildlife health and disease since 1980 with a focus on African and Asian ecosystems.
Cyril is Founder and Executive Director of Wild Heritage, a project of the Earth Island Institute. He also serves as IUCN-WCPA Vice-Chair for World Heritage, sits on IUCN’s World Heritage Panel and chairs the IUCN-WCPA World Heritage Network. He became a National Geographic Explorer in 2018.
Lauren Kubiak is a senior policy analyst in the oceans division at the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC), an IUCN Member, where she works to improve management and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems of the high seas.
Marco Lambertini is the Director General of WWF International, an IUCN Member. He first worked with WWF in Italy as a youth volunteer. He now leads the global conservation organisation, with over five million supporters and a network active in more than 100 countries and territories.
Dr Richard Leakey is a prominent Kenyan paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is known for extensive fossil finds related to human evolution and for his efforts to preserve the wildlife of the African continent.
Catherine Machalaba is Programme Officer for the IUCN Species Survival Commission Wildlife Health Specialist Group and Policy Advisor and Research Scientist at EcoHealth Alliance.
Brendan Mackey is a professor at Griffith University, Australia, and Director of the Grifith Climate Change Response Programme and the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility. He co-chairs the IUCN task force on primary forests including intact forest landscapes.
Erik Meijaard is director of Borneo Futures, an environmental-sustainability initiative in Southeast Asia, and member of the Executive Committee of the Section on Great Apes, IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group.
Dr John Merson is a founding director and current Executive Director of Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute, an IUCN Member organisation.
Russell A. Mittermeier, Chief Conservation Officer of Global Wildlife Conservation, is a longtime member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission’s (SSC) Steering Committee and Chair of SSC’s Primate Specialist Group.
