Clemens KüPPER

Biography

Clemens Küpper is Evaluations and Operations Officer for World Heritage at IUCN and the IUCN World Heritage Panel’s Executive Officer. He is responsible for coordinating the technical evaluation of new candidate sites nominated to the World Heritage List, as part of IUCN’s role as advisory body on natural World Heritage. In IUCN’s newly established Heritage and Culture team, he serves as focal point on World Heritage and rights, culture and Indigenous heritage. He has supported the Nature-Culture Journey at the IUCN World Conservation Congress (Marseille, 2021) and the development of IUCN’s new Youth Strategy. Before IUCN, Clemens worked at UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre in Paris. He studied geography, philosophy and economics in Bonn, London and Edinburgh and holds an MSc in Environment, Culture and Society from the University of Edinburgh.

Speaking at

Cultural Approach to Promoting Natural Heritage Conservation

Oct 09 2025 (16:30 - 18:00)

Room: Virtual Channel 1
Cultural Approach to Promoting Natural Heritage Conservation