Marco was WWF International Director General (2014-2022) and Special Envoy
(2023). Before joining WWF he was Global Director of Network and Programme and
subsequently CEO of BirdLife International.
Marco’s experience and career ranges from ecological field research to high level
advocacy and international policy, nature reserve management, integrated
conservation and development projects, environmental education, NGO
development, communications and campaigning, in many countries all over the
world.
Marco is a member of the China Council (CCICED), a member of the Board of
Directors for the Fondation Prince Albert III de Monaco, co-chair of the Nature Action
100 Science Council, former co-chair and now Board member of the Belt and Road
Initiative Greening Coalition, a founding member of the Nature Action Agenda and
the Friends of Ocean Action at WEF, outgoing member of the UN Global Compact
Board and former co-focal point for UN DESA’s Community of Ocean Action on
Marine/Coastal Ecosystems. Marco is also former co-chair of the Global Commons
Alliance.