Gilles Kleitz (PhD) has been working for 30 years on the links between biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. He has led biodiversity projects and policies in several foreign countries and in France, for the administration, non-governmental organizations and the French Development Agency. He has been advisor to several French ministers in the environmental sector, as well as for development aid. He has taken part in numerous international negotiations. He was director of the national park in French Guiana. He is an Ingénieur Général des Ponts, des Eaux et Forêts, has a doctorate in political science and is a Knight of the Legion of Honor. He is currently Director of Ecological and Natural Transition (Agriculture, Water, Biodiversity, Forests, Ocean) at the French Development Agency.

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