Board Members
Angela Cropper
Angela Cropper is the Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) commencing office in February 2008.
Cropper is co-founder and President of The Cropper Foundation, a not-for-profit organization contributing among other things to public policy for sustainable development. She co-chaired the Assessment Panel of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment; the Board of Trustees of CIFOR (Centre for International Forestry Research); was a member of the Board of the Trinidad and Tobago Environmental Management Authority and Trustee of its Environment Fund. She was a member of the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development, and was the Chairperson of its Editorial Committee and Editor of the Commission's Report. She is a former Chair of the Board of Trustees of Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development in Guyana.
She has worked with International Planned Parenthood Federation, Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) as Project Manager for the Eastern Caribbean; with the Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM) as Director of Functional Cooperation and Adviser in Environment and Education; with IUCN – the World Conservation Union as Head of Governance; with UNEP as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity; with UNDP as Senior Advisor in Environment and Development.
Angela Cropper retired from the board on June 12, 2008.