Mr. Neville Ash
World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UNEP
Neville Ash is the Director of the UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, where he represents UNEP in the collaboration between UN Environment and WCMC at the Centre, and represent UN Environment in the UK. He provides overall leadership to the Centre, including ensuring a clear strategy is in place towards the achievement of the Centre’s vision and mission.
He has been with UN Environment since 2010, most recently as Deputy Director of UN Environment’s Division of Environmental Policy Implementation. He led UN Environment’s work on biodiversity, including the process to establish the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), and UN Environment’s work to address illegal wildlife trade. Previously he was Head of IUCN’s Ecosystem Management Programme and Head of Ecosystem Assessment at UNEP-WCMC. He has spent time researching and managing conservation initiatives in Asia and Africa, and have considerable experience working with a range of international policy processes.