Iben MUNCK

Executive Officer

Iben Munck is the Executive Officer for IUCN’s Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy, as well as Executive Operations Manager for Conservation International’s Global Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Center. She holds a Masters Degree in Nonprofit Management and speaks French, German, Danish, and English. She serves on the Advisory Council of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, a wild ocean place near an urban world, between Cape Ann and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Iben’s first career was in tourism, leading land tours in Morocco, Thailand, France, England, Scotland, Costa Rica, and the USA. She then spent four years at sea as an excursion manager on Cunard’s cruise ships, observing the often negative environmental, economic, and social impacts of ill-considered development along coastlines, and the frequent damage to local small businesses by large tourism corporations. Decades of travel and living in different cultures and countries provided her with a deep commitment to community empowerment and nature conservation. She changed careers to focus on nature conservation, working in a variety of roles for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, including responding to marine mammal strandings around Cape Cod, cleaning oiled seabirds, and as the organization’s Elephant Program Officer, before joining Conservation International.