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| Julia Marton-Lefèvre | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Independent adviser on sustainability issues (former Director General of IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature) |
Julia Marton-Lefèvre (1946, Budapest) is a French - US environmentalist and academic. She studied history, ecology and environmental planning in the US and in France,and was born in Hungary.
Career
She was Director General of IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, from 2007 to mid January 2015. Prior to this, Marton-Lefèvre was Rector of the University for Peace (UPEACE), a graduate-level international university, mandated by the United Nations, providing education, training and research on issues related to peace and conflict. Earlier offices held by Marton-Lefèvre include Executive Director of LEAD (Leadership for Environment and Development) International , a programme established by The Rockefeller Foundation to bring together and train mid-career leaders from all parts of the world in improving their leadership skills around the issues of sustainable development, and Executive Director of the International Council for Science (then known as ICSU). She begain her international career in a programme on environmental education at UNESCO.
Institutional affiliations
At present, Marton-Lefèvre is focusing on using her broad experience to advise organizations to help them achieve their goals. She chairs several international groups: the Executive Committee of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the Donor Council of the Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund, the Board of Trustees of Bioversity International, and the Strategy Advisory Council to the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI). She was recently elected as member of the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) .
Her links with academic institutions are with Yale University, where she spent 2016 as the Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar. She continues her links with Yale at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies by teaching and continuing to mentor students as a Fellow of Davenport College, and as a board member of the Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative. She also serves on the Advisory Boards of Oxford University’s James Martin School, the Global Institute of Sustainability (Arizona State University) and the International Risk Governance Center based at the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Lausanne (EPFL) . She recently completed a 10-year term as a founding member of the board of the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and remains a member of the advisory board of the Institute’s Center for Environmental Studies.
Marton-Lefèvre’s other board memberships include the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, the Global Footprint Network, the Turkana Basin Institute, the Oceanographic Institute- Prince Albert 1st of Monaco Foundation, and the advisory board of TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity).
Previous Board memberships include the,China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), an advisory body to the Chinese Government, the Bibliotheca Alexandria, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IEED), Earth Charter International, the World Resources Institute (WRI), the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), the Lemelson Foundation, ICSU's Committee on Science and Technology in Developing Countries (COSTED) and the InterAcademy Council's Panel on Promoting Worldwide Science and Technology Capacities for the 21st Century. She was also a member of the juries of the Saint Andrew's and Alcan Prizes and member of the global jury of the Holcim Awards, and has participated in corporate environmental advisory boards to the Dow Chemical Company, to the Coca-Cola Company and as the Chair of the Indepent Advisory Board to the Sustainable Biomass Program, advising seven large energy companies, She is a member of the Critical Friends advisory group to the CEO of Veolia Environment S.A.
Awards
In 1999 she received the AAAS Award for International Cooperation in Science; and has been honoured as a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur” by the government of France, as Chevalier dans l'Ordre de Saint-Charles by HSH Prince Albert of Monaco. She also received the ProNatura Award from the government of Hungary and the Presidential citation from the Republic of Korea. In 2019, Marton-Lefèvre was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Council for Science and the Environment, and as an Officer de l'Ordre National de Mérite by the President of France.
She is an elected Member of the World Academy of Art and Science, the World Future Council and the Royal Geographical Society.
References
- "Julia Marton-Lefèvre: IUCN Director General".
- "Mammal gamble". The Christian Science Monitor. 14 October 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- "Julia Marton-Lefevre Brief Biography" (PDF). Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. IPBES Secretariat. March 2019. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- "Our mission is a no-brainer, says incoming Board Chair Julia Marton-Lefèvre".
- https://www.aaas.org/archives/science-diplomacy-award