Board of Directors
The Board of Directors ensures that the Foundation’s goals are achieved by taking all the necessary measures. It is entrusted with:
Members of the Board of Directors
H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco
H.E. Bernard Fautrier
Vice-president Chief Executive Officer of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Minister Plenipotentiary,Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on sustainable development issues
Mr Robert Calcagno
Director General of the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco, Fondation Albert Ier, Prince de Monaco
Pr Tim Flannery
Biologist and Palaeontologist, Head of Zoology at the Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia's first Chief Climate Commisioner
Mr Bertrand-Pierre Galey
General inspector for Cultural Affairs, Former Director General of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris
The Tt. Hon John GUMMER, Lord Deben
Former UK Secretary of State for the Environment, Chairman of Sancroft International Ltd
Mrs Julia Marton-Lefevre
Former Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature
Mrs Sunita Narain
Director General of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Director of the Society for Environmental Communications
Mr Stéphane Valeri
President of the National Council - Monaco
H.E. Rubens Ricupero
Former Brazilian Finance Minister, fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Mr Otto Steinmetz
Former member of the Dresdner Bank Executive Board
Mr Björn Stigson
Former President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Mr Klaus Topfer
Founder and Director of the Institute for Advanced Climate, Earth System and Sustainability Studies (IASS), former United Nations Under-Secretary General, former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Mr Thierry Vandevelde
Executive Officer of the Veolia Foundation
Mrs Jane Lubchenco
Mrs Maria Damanaki
Global Managing Director for Oceans at The Nature Conservancy
Scientific and Technical Committee
The Scientific and Technical Committee ensures that the Foundation’s projects are substantial and well observed. The Com receives and selects all projects to be supported by the Foundation. It is entrusted with:
Members of the Scientific and Technical Committee
Mr Denis Allemand
Scientific Director of the Monaco Scientific Centre, member of the Scientific Committe of the French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER)
Mr Lucien Chabason
President of Plan Bleu, an environment and sustainable development centre for the Mediterranean, Deputy Director, Institut de développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI, Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations)
Mrs Milagros Couchoud
President of the Mediterranean Water Institute (IME)
Mr Thomas Grenon
Director General of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris
Mrs Sylvie Goyet
Director, Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change at SPC
Member of the Board of the BioGuinee Foundation (Guine Bissau), President of the Wild Touch Association (France) and member of the Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA)
Mr Jean Jaubert
Former Director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, specialist in the biology and ecology of reef-constructing corals, former Scientific Director and Head of Expeditions at the Cousteau Society
Mr Bedrich Moldan
Director of the Charles University Environment Centre in Prague since 1992, member of the Scientific Council of the Czech Technical University in Prague
Mr David Munro
Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh, geographical adviser to the publishers of The Times Atlas of the World, former Director of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society
Dr Olav Orheim
Senior adviser at The Research Council of Norway
Mr Bertrand Piccard
Pioneer of hang-gliding and microlighting in Europe, UN Goodwill Ambassador (UNFPA), winner of the first transatlantic balloon race (1992), founder of the Solar Impulse project (to circumnavigate the globe in a solar aircraft to promote sustainable development)
Mr Guillaume Sainteny
Senior lecturer in sustainable development at the École Polytechnique
Mrs Samantha Smith
Director, Just Transition Centre
Mr Laurent Bopp
Director of Research at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique de l’Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris
Executive Board
The Foundation has an Executive Board composed of a President, Vice President, Secretary General, Treasurer and two Administrators nominated by the Board of Directors. The purpose of the Executive Board is to supervise the Foundation’s activities. It administers day-to-day business and implements the decisions of the Board of Directors.
Ethics commission
The Ethics Commission guarantees that all activities of the Foundation are in accordance to its founding values and ethical requirements. This Commission is presided by Mr Jean-François Landwerlin.
Members of the Ethics commission
Mr Jean-François LANDWERLIN - France
Vice-President of the State Council of the Principality of Monaco
First Honorary President of the Court of Appeal
Pr Tullio SCOVAZZI - Italy
Professor of International Law at the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.
Legal expert in international negotiations and meetings on environmental law, law of the sea, cultural property law and human rights.
Mr Sálvano BRICEÑO - Venezuela
Former Director of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), Chair of the Science Committee, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and member of the IRDR Science Committee.
H.E Mrs Isabelle BERRO-AMADEI - Monaco
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Monaco in Germany, Austria and Poland
Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna
Development committee
The Development Committee helps to raise the financial resources needed to implement the Foundation's action plan and to ensure its financial sustainability.
Membres du Comité de Développement
