Ingrid COETZEE

Ingrid Coetzee is “Director: Biodiversity, Nature and Health at ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability. She has more than 40 years’ experience in sustainability, advocacy and governance and has worked in national, subnational and city governments. Her work focuses on biodiversity advocacy, and mainstreaming nature and its benefits into urban planning and decision-making to help cities become greener, healthier, and more resilient and liveable places. Ingrid leads on ICLEI’s biodiversity advocacy work, which includes representing the voice of cities in the local and subnational government major group in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and associated processes, including the Convention on Migratory Species and the Convention on Wetlands. She also coordinates ICLEI’s work in the CitiesWithNature and RegionsWithNature partnership initiatives. She represents ICLEI and the voice of local and subnational governments on the UNEP Intergovernmental and Multi-stakeholder Advisory Group (IMAG) of GEO7, the AMCEN Civil Society Group, as well as the CLEANAction Coalition and World Coastal Forum. Ingrid also serves as technical lead on ICLEI’s contributions, as one of the 15 Global Partners, to the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration.