Cristiana Pasca Palmer

Cristiana Pașca Palmer was appointed executive secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2017. Previously, she served as Romania’s minister for environment, waters and forests, and headed the Romanian delegation at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, 2016 Marrakech Climate Change Conference and 2016 UN Biodiversity Conference in Cancun. She served as head of the Climate Change, Environment and Natural Resources Unit within the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development. She was also one of two appointed EU negotiators on behalf of the European Commission for the Rio+20 Summit in 2012.