Deputy Director General - Corporate Services
SungAh Lee brings with her more than 20 years of experience in corporate strategy and results-based management, international relations, partnership ...
IUCN Secretariat
IUCN Secretariat
Description 1
The IUCN Secretariat works to achieve the vision of the Union’s membership. Our Secretariat includes around 1,000 staff in over 50 countries.
IUCN’s headquarters are in Gland, near Geneva, Switzerland, and we have regional, outpost, country and project offices around the world. In addition to contributing knowledge, convening and capacity-building work, the Secretariat manages projects worldwide and coordinates support services to Members and Commissions.
Leadership
Accountable to the IUCN Council, the Secretariat is led by our Director General and three deputy directors general.
Dr Bruno Oberle
Dr Bruno Oberle assumed office as Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in July 2020.
SungAh Lee
IUCN’s Centres
The Secretariat includes five Centres, one reports to the Director General and four led by our Deputy Director General – Programme. Three Centres reflect the pillars of sustainable development: environmental sustainability, economic feasibility and social equity. These are reinforced by Centres that focus on science and data, and international policy.
Regional offices
IUCN has eleven operational regions which implement IUCN’s Programme in their respective territories. Each operational region is led by a director who reports to the Director General via the Deputy Director General - Regional and Outposted Offices.
Corporate services
Under the leadership of our Deputy Director General - Corporate Services, our teams are responsible for constituency support, strategic partnerships and donor relations, communications, human resources, legal, finance, global convenings and events, and knowledge and information management.
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