Carole Saint-Laurent is a co-founder of the Bonn Challenge and serves as Head of The Bonn Challenge Secretariat. With more than 30 years of experience in environmental policy and program development and management at the national and international levels, she has also acted as an adviser to the UN Department of Environmental and Social Affairs and the private sector on a range of related issues to sustainable development. Carole currently serves as the Head of the Forest and Grassland team in the Centre for Conservation Action at IUCN.