Andrea Athanas
Andrea Athanas is a Senior Programme Officer with the Business and Biodiversity Programme of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). She is responsible for IUCN's work with the extractive industries and coordinates IUCN's energy, ecosystems and livelihoods leverage initiative. Andrea has helped to develop good practice guidance on biodiversity management for the International Council on Mining and Metals, the International Finance Corporation, and with the Energy and Biodiversity Initiative. She also has field experience working with the oil and gas sector in China, Russia and Italy. Andrea was seconded from IUCN to Shell International from 2001-2003 to help with the implementation and roll-out of the company's biodiversity strategy. Prior to that, she worked in IUCN’s Economic Unit to integrate economic thinking and tools into the conservation agenda and launched a global programme of work on biodiversity and impact assessment with the Convention on Biological Diversity and the International Association for Impact Assessment.
Andrea has a Masters in Environmental Assessment and Evaluation from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor degree in Economics and English from the University of Michigan. She served on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Impact Assessment and is a member of Executives International.
