Biography|Inger Andersen — The Gland Seat She Took from Julia Marton-Lefèvre

On 13 October 2014 IUCN announced that Inger Andersen would become Director General on 12 January 2015.

She was then World Bank Vice President for the Middle East and North Africa.

She succeeded Julia Marton-Lefèvre, who had held the post since January 2007.

President Zhang Xinsheng made the appointment public from the Union's seat at Rue Mauverney 28 in Gland.

The Conservation Centre facing the lake is the 2010 wing. The older 1992 house is the one Swiss president René Felber opened.

An IUCN overview issued under her name in 2016 put secretariat staff at 962 in 52 countries, 84 percent of them outside headquarters.

In September 2016 the Union held its World Conservation Congress in Hawaiʻi.

President Barack Obama opened the gathering on the eve of the formal meeting, the largest international conservation event the United States had hosted.

UNEP's later biography dates her Gland years from January 2015 to May 2019.

The same campus had already sent Achim Steiner to Nairobi in 2006.

A visitor today meets the 2010 extension first. The older block is the building that matches her arrival.

Photo: Defrenrokorit, IUCN Headquarters in Gland, 2016, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.