Robbert CASIER

Robbert joined IUCN in 2024. He supports the expansion of the portfolio of IUCN’s World Heritage work and explores partnerships and collaborative work across IUCN Programmes, Regional Offices, IUCN Commissions and IUCN members and partners. He worked a decade for the World Heritage Centre at UNESCO where he helped set up eDNA expeditions, monitored the conservation status of natural World Heritage sites, or organized trainings for marine protected area managers. Prior to his work on World Heritage and ocean science, he served as the Flemish Youth Delegate for Climate Policy, worked as a Parliamentary Advisor in Brussels, and conducted field work in South Africa, Mozambique, Russian Federation (Lake Baikal) and the Mediterranean Sea. In 2011 he was awarded an Alfred Toepfer Natural Heritage Scholarship from the EUROPARC Federation. Robbert holds a Master's degree in Marine Geology and likes scuba diving, genealogy and hiking. He is based in Washington, D.C.