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IUCN strives to mobilise its wide networks of experts, members and partners to support the conservation of natural World Heritage sites. You can help us in our mission in several ways, by supporting our work, reaching out to explore partnerships, contributing to the IUCN World Heritage Outlook, or submitting information on latest threats to natural World Heritage sites.

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IUCN World Heritage Team

IUCN's work on World Heritage is coordinated by the World Heritage Team, part of the IUCN Centre for Conservation Action. The World Heritage Team also works with a network of thematic and regional World Heritage focal points embedded in other IUCN teams. Our work on World Heritage is supported through technical expertise of IUCN's international network of experts, including the IUCN World Heritage Panel and the WCPA Vice-chair for World Heritage.

Tim Badman at 41WHC © fot. Bartłomiej Banaszak, Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa_850

Tim Badman

Head IUCN World Heritage Team

Tim Badman is Director of the World Heritage Team at IUCN, having served as Director of the IUCN World Heritage Programme since 2009 and Director of the IUCN Nature ...

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Head IUCN World Heritage Team

Tim Badman is Director of the World Heritage Team at IUCN, having served as Director of the IUCN World Heritage Programme since 2009 and Director of the IUCN Nature-Culture Initiative in 2019-2020. He is chair of the IUCN World Heritage Panel and heads IUCN’s delegation at World Heritage Committee meetings. Tim joined IUCN having worked as team leader of the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site, UK. This role culminated in inscription of the site on the World Heritage List in 2001, and the subsequent development of the World Heritage programme on-site. He has been involved in many World Heritage site evaluation and monitoring issues globally. 

 

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EXPERTISE: Effective protected areas, Tourism and sport, World heritage
Mizuki Murai

Mizuki Murai

Senior Programme Coordinator World Heritage

Mizuki joined IUCN in 2015 and oversees IUCN’s work on World Heritage. She is the deputy head of IUCN’s delegation at World Heritage Committee meetings ...

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Senior Programme Coordinator World Heritage

Mizuki joined IUCN in 2015 and oversees IUCN’s work on World Heritage. She is the deputy head of IUCN’s delegation at World Heritage Committee meetings, and is the contact point on World Heritage matters. In her previous position in the team, she specialised in the monitoring the state of conservation of natural sites in Asia, East and Southern Africa and North America, and was the thematic lead on industrial commitments including extractives, infrastructures, renewable energy as well as on impact assessments. Prior to joining IUCN she worked for several national and international organisations in Central Africa, Central America and Europe, focusing on protected area management and wildlife monitoring. Mizuki is currently based in Cambridge, UK.

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EXPERTISE: Extractive, energy and infrastructure, Species conservation action, Transboundary water governance and diplomacy, World heritage
Katherine Zischka, World Heritage Conservation Officer

Katherine Zischka

World Heritage Conservation Officer

Since 2019, Kathy coordinates IUCN’s statutory Advisory Body work on monitoring the state of conservation of natural and mixed World Heritage sites under the ...

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World Heritage Conservation Officer

Since 2019, Kathy coordinates IUCN’s statutory Advisory Body work on monitoring the state of conservation of natural and mixed World Heritage sites under the World Heritage Convention. She has experience in a range of environmental conservation areas including marine research, international environmental law, ecotourism, policy and management. Kathy has worked in non-government organisations, ecotourism, government and academia including in Australia, Europe and the Pacific, and is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). She has a BSc (Hons) in marine and environmental biology and Master of environmental management, with a focus on international environmental governance. 

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EXPERTISE: Marine ecosystems, Plastic and other pollution, Tourism and sport, World heritage
Clemens Küpper, World Heritage

Clemens Küpper

Programme Officer, Nominations and Strategy

Clemens Küpper joined IUCN in 2020 as Evaluations and Operations Officer for the World Heritage Programme. He is responsible for coordinating the ...

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Programme Officer, Nominations and Strategy

Clemens Küpper joined IUCN in 2020 as Evaluations and Operations Officer for the World Heritage Programme. 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. He coordinates IUCN’s “upstream” support, provided directly to States Parties before the preparation or submission of a nomination. Before IUCN, Clemens worked at UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre in Paris, where he monitored the state of conservation of natural and mixed World Heritage sites in Europe and North America in close cooperation with IUCN. He studied geography in Bonn, London and Edinburgh and speaks German, English and French. 

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EXPERTISE: Indigenous peoples, World heritage
Paul Ngafack

Paul Ngafack

World Heritage Monitoring Officer

Paul Ngafack is the World Heritage Monitoring Officer at IUCN. He is the regional focal point for West & Central Africa and North America. Before joining IUCN ...

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World Heritage Monitoring Officer

Paul Ngafack is the World Heritage Monitoring Officer at IUCN. He is the regional focal point for West & Central Africa and North America. Before joining IUCN, Paul was the Programme Coordinator for African Marine Mammal Conservation Organization, Sub-Regional Project Officer with Birdlife International and most recently he was Technical Support for Africa at the Secretariat of Ramsar Convention. Paul is a member of the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group and a former member of the Advisory Committee of the Society for Marine Mammalogy. Paul holds a B.Sc in Zoology, and an M.Sc in Applied Ecology and Wildlife Management. He has also attended the Marine Conservation Summer Institute at Duke University in the United States.

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Eugene Jo, World Heritage Leadership Programme

Eugene Jo

Programme Coordinator - World Heritage Leadership

Eugene Jo is the Programme Coordinator for the joint IUCN/ICCROM World Heritage Leadership Programme. She joined ICCROM in 2017 and is based in ...

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Programme Coordinator - World Heritage Leadership

Eugene Jo is the Programme Coordinator for the joint IUCN/ICCROM World Heritage Leadership Programme. She joined ICCROM in 2017 and is based in Rome. Her main tasks include coordinating various activities for the overall programme, such as integrating the Resource Manual on managing natural and cultural World Heritage and Disaster Risk Management, and enhancing the connection between sites and people by coordinating learning sites and leadership networks. Prior to her current position she has worked on various different areas of World Heritage at the national level. She was the World Heritage Focal Point for the Republic of Korea for nine years at the Cultural Heritage Administration, and has held staff and consultancy positions to various Korean entities. She also served as Rapporteur of the World Heritage Committee in 2016. Eugene holds an MA in Cultural Heritage Studies, a BA in Korean History and is currently completing her PhD in World Heritage Studies at Konkuk University in Seoul.

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EXPERTISE: Disaster risk reduction, Rights-based approaches, World heritage
Taras Bains

Taras Bains

Taras Bains - Junior Professional

Taras Bains joined IUCN in 2024 as Junior Professional for World Heritage. He coordinates the newly introduced Preliminary Assessment Process, which provides ...

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Taras Bains - Junior Professional

Taras Bains joined IUCN in 2024 as Junior Professional for World Heritage. He coordinates the newly introduced Preliminary Assessment Process, which provides advice directly to States Parties before the submission of a final nomination, under the World Heritage Convention. He also supports the technical evaluation of new World Heritage site nominations, and the preparation of the IUCN World Heritage Outlook. Before IUCN, he had worked in community-based conservation and central government environmental policy. He holds an integrated master’s degree (MBiol) in Biology (with a specialism in Conservation) from the University of Oxford. 

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Robbert Casier

Robbert Casier

World Heritage Programme Development Officer

Robbert joined IUCN in 2024. He supports the expansion of the portfolio of IUCN’s World Heritage work and explores partnerships and collaborative work ...

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World Heritage Programme Development Officer

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.

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EXPERTISE: Climate change impacts on nature, Marine ecosystems, World heritage

WCPA Vice-chair for World Heritage

Vice-Chair for World Heritage, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas

Position being filled. 

 
EXPERTISE: World heritage