Ms Julia MARTON-LEFEVRE
Chair of Board, Alliance Bioversity & CIAT
J. Marton-Lefèvre is an independent adviser on sustainability. She was Director General of IUCN from 2007 to 2015. She has held CEO positions of: LEAD International; the International Council for Science, & the University for Peace. She currently serves on the boards of NGOs, foundations, universities & corporations. She lectures regularly on environment & sustainable development topics & chairs the Boards of the Alliance between Bioversity and CIAT: the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund; the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement & the Strategic Advisory Council to IDDRI. Julia was born in Hungary, educated in the United States and in France, and having lived in several continents, considers herself a global citizen.