Julia Marton-Lefèvre
Former Director General, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Switzerland
Julia Marton-Lefèvre
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Global Holcim Foundation Awards 2012 jury
Global Holcim Awards jury meeting 2012 in March 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland: Members of the Global Holcim Awards Jury 2012 (l-r): Rolf Soiron, Mario Botta, Maria Atkinson, Yolanda Kakabadse, Werner Sobek, Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Aaron Betsky, Enrique Norten (head), Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, Rahul Mehrotra.
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Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Switzerland applauded the Holcim Awards competition for promoting critical interdisciplinary and long-range perspectives by demonstrating the link between sustainable construction and environmental performance. “The level of commitment for change being shown by the global community to address climate change is, in fact, an incredible opportunity to re-frame our thinking and to put our environment at the center of the discussions.”
Last updated: April 18, 2024 Gland, Switzerland
IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network – a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member Organizations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries. The IUCN’s mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
She has previously held the positions of Rector of the UN-mandated University for Peace, a graduate-level international university of peace and conflict studies based in Costa Rica; Executive Director of LEAD (Leadership for Environment and Development) International; and Executive Director of the International Council for Science (ICSU).
Julia Marton-Lefèvre studied history, ecology and environmental planning in the USA and France and was born in Hungary.
She was conferred as a Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur (Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor) by the French Ministry of Environment in recognition of her career and outstanding work on sustainable development in 2008. She also received the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Award for International Cooperation in Science in 1999.
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