Cécile FATTEBERT

Cécile Fattebert joined the Protected and Conserved Areas (PCAs) Team in January 2020, to work on the Blue Solutions project. Her role was to facilitate targeted knowledge exchanges between marine PCAs practitioners from South East Asia and the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) and Solution Providers from the PANORAMA community. Since then, Cecile has moved into the Green List programme, focusing on marine PCAs, governance and capacity building.

Before IUCN, Cecile worked as Barren Isles MPA Project Officer, then Site Leader with Blue Ventures in Madagascar for five years. She coordinated the formal gazetting process of the MPA, involving the various stakeholders from the local to the national authorities. She also facilitated the implementation of activities with the local fishing communities to support community-based decision-making mechanisms. 

She gained her first professional experiences in ecotourism and community-based tourism in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Vietnam, and in community-based fisheries management in the Philippines.

She holds a Master’s degree in Anthropology and Sociology from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. 

Passionate by the Ocean, fascinated by the Peoples who live from the Ocean, she aims to contribute to make solutions and good practices circulate, to strengthen practical knowledge and actions on the ground.