Commission Chair. Anthropologist specialized in Land Geography and Evaluation, with a MsC in Land Ecology from ITC - University of Twente, NL. She has over 30 years of professional experience in ecosystem management, land-use planning, climate change adaptation and public policies associated with these matters. She has worked in Colombia as the subdirector of the Agustin Codazzi Geographic Institute (IGAC), Ecosystem Chair at the Environmental Ministry and Climate Change and Biodiversity Policy Senior Director for Conservation International Colombia. She has been a consultant for diverse topics related to the application of the ecosystem approach for the development of conservation corridors, protected areas, land-use planning in the Amazon, and ecosystem-based adaptation, among others.

Deputy Chair - Commission on Ecosystem Management. Dr. Vasseur is a full professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Brock University where she is also a member of the Women and Gender Studies program and the Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, one of the five transdisciplinary spaces at the university. Since 2014, she holds the UNESCO Chair on Community Sustainability: form local to global at Brock. She currently co-lead of  the thematic group on Biodiversity and Climate Change Policy and Practice thematic group of the Commission for Ecosystem Management of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Her interest for women in science and higher education stems from various involvement at the national and international levels including being on the new UNESCO Advisory Committee on Women and Girls in Science. She is on the board of directors of Nature Canada, co-editor in chief of Botany from the Canadian Science Publisher, and a member of the board of directors of the Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Network.  Her research program is highly interdisciplinary and links issues such as community-based ecosystem management, climate change adaptation and resilience and sustainable agriculture. Her projects are located not only on Canada but also internationally such as in China, where she is a Visiting Scholar at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Ecuador, and West Africa. Her community-research work with the City of greater Sudbury led her to receive in 2011 the Latornell Pioneers Award from Conservation Ontario.  She has over 150 publications and more than 250 presentations as a researcher.