Loredana Rita SCUTO

Loredana Scuto serves as Senior Programme Officer - Urban at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), where she supports the development of IUCN knowledge products, such as the IUCN Urban Nature Indexes, as well as the implementation of projects for the protection of urban biodiversity and the sustainable development of cities.

Prior to joining IUCN, she worked in the fields of (World) heritage management, human rights and biocultural diversity in different countries, including France, Austria and Italy.

She holds a BA in Cultural Management (Ca' Foscari University, Italy) and a Dual MA Degree in World Heritage Studies (Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany) and Cultural Heritage (Deakin University, Australia).