Ms. Bárcena Ibarra served as the Chef de Cabinet to the former Secretary-General before serving as the Under-Secretary-General for Management.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Bárcena Ibarra served as Deputy Executive Secretary of ECLAC, and in this capacity she contributed substantively and increased interagency collaboration to provide a regional perspective on the Millennium Development Goals and on Financing for Sustainable Development.
As Chief of the Environment and Human Settlements Division of ECLAC, she heightened the profile of the Regional Commission in the areas of climate change, sustainable energy, fiscal policies and environment. She previously served as Coordinator of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), as well as Adviser to the Latin American and Caribbean Sustainable Development Programme in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
She was part of the Secretariat that was in charge of preparing the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992.
Previously, she served in the Government of Mexico as the first Vice-Minister of Ecology and as Director-General of the National Institute of Fisheries.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in biology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University.
Alicia Isabel Adriana Bárcena Ibarra is a Mexican biologist currently serving as her country's Secretary of Foreign Affairs. She previously served as the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean from July 2008 to March 2022.
She had previously served as the Under-Secretary-General for Management at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Chef de Cabinet and Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the former Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan.
Alicia Bárcena held the post of Deputy Executive Secretary and Director of ECLAC's Environment and Human Settlements Division. Prior to her time at ECLAC, Ms. Bárcena served as Co-ordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Sustainable Development Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), responsible for the Environmental Citizenship Project at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Alicia Bárcena was the Founding Director of the Earth Council in Costa Rica, a non-governmental organization in charge of follow-up to the agreements reached at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992.
Ms. Bárcena has published numerous articles on sustainable development, public policy, environmental issues, and public participation. Alicia Bárcena holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, in Spanish), as well as a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University. She has completed the courses for a degree of Master in Ecology, and has initiated studies for a PhD degree in Economics at the UNAM.
Pierre Bardoux is the Director of the Global Fund for Coral Reefs Secretariat in the United Nations Capital Development Fund.
With over 15 years of experience in trust fund design within the UN system, he has led a number of successful initiatives within the climate, terrestrial, and ocean finance space; namely through multi-partner and innovative blended finance solutions with over 1.5 billion dollars USD collectively capitalized. He holds a master's degree in international relations.
Domagoj Baresic carries out research on the intersection of the marine environment, society and technology to understand sustainability transitions.
He uses mixed research methods to explore the nature of transition pathways necessary to reach a low carbon shipping future. His research interests span policy, political economy, and socio-technical transitions. He developed the MarSTF conceptual framework with the aim of making sustainability transitions literature more empirically suitable for the study of fuel transitions in shipping.
He holds a PhD in Energy and Transport from the University College London (UCL) as well as a Master of Philosophy in Environmental Policy and a Master of Arts in Natural Sciences, both from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining UCL, he worked for several years in the private sector as an analyst looking at policy and financial drivers shaping global energy markets and emission trading schemes.
Carla Natalie Barnett PhD CBE is the 8th Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), she assumed office on 15 August 2021.
Dr. Barnett is an economist who has worked across the English-speaking Caribbean and had broken several barriers along the way. She was the first woman to be appointed as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Belize (1991-1996). She was the first woman, and youngest person to be appointed as Deputy Secretary-General of CARICOM (1997-2002); and the first woman to be appointed as Financial Secretary in Belize (2004-2007). She has also worked at the Caribbean Development Bank, as a Country Economist (1989-1990), and as Vice President, Operations (2012-2014).
As a consultant, Dr. Barnett has provided advisory services to a range of multilateral and bilateral agencies working across the CARICOM Region, including the Inter-American Development Bank, Canadian International Development Agency (now Global Affairs Canada), United Kingdom Department for International Development and the United Nations Development Program.
Dr. Barnett was a candidate for the United Democratic Party in the Freetown Constituency in 2015 and lost to the then Leader of the Opposition. She was subsequently appointed to the Senate as Vice-President and a Minister of State in the 2015 – 2020 Belize Government.
She is a long-time advocate for gender equality, not only because it is the right thing to do to create a more stable and equitable society, but also because gender equality is good economic policy. She is an active member of the Caribbean Institute of Women in Leadership (CIWiL) Belize Chapter. She continues to serve on the Board of the Belize YWCA and is a past president. She has also served on the Board of Haven House, which is a shelter for battered women.
Dr. Barnett has received several notable awards, including the Insignia of the Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for distinguished public service (2005), the Alumnae Achievement Awards by her schools in Belize, St Catherine Academy (2008) and St John's College (2007); and the UWI Belize Alumnae Association Award for excellence in Economics and Development (2011).
Susana Barria, works as Trade Justice Campaigner at Public Services International (PSI), on the impacts of trade and investment agreements on the provision of public services, on digital transformation and workers, data rights and on health-care sector workers and health-care systems.
Susana has worked on issues related to social and economic justice for more than 15 years, with experience from Latin America, Europe and Asia. She holds a masters in international relations and is based in India, recently moved to Kochi.
Stephen Barrie is the Deputy Chief Responsible Investment Officer at the Church of England Pension Board and is also a member of the Global Investor Commission on Mining 2030. With a special interest in systemic stewardship, he is a board member of the Transition Pathway Initiative, a trustee director of the Church Investors Group, and co-Chair of the Global Tailings Registry Working Group. Previously he served as Secretary to the Ethical Investment Advisory Group advising the Church of England National Investing Bodies and as a Fellow of the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. He holds a PhD in philosophy from King's College London, on the topic of ethics and side effects.