Carole Saint-Laurent

Deputy Director, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme, IUCN

Carole Saint-Laurent is Deputy Director of IUCN's Global Forest and Climate Change Programme.  She has also been the Coordinator of the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) since its launch in 2003. Carole has more than 20 years of experience in environmental policy and programme development working at the international and national levels for IUCN, WWF, Pollution Probe and the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy. Carole has also acted as an adviser to the UN Department of Environmental and Social Affairs and to the private sector on a range of issues related to sustainable development. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Psychology as well as Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Law, with a specialization in International Environmental Law.