Max Gomera is currently the Director of UN Environment’s Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services Branch. He has over twenty years of national and international experience in natural resources management. A natural resource economist by training, Max was also a Deputy Director of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge. He has sat on many Boards, and most recently on TASAI Inc, the African Seed Access Initiative.

Max is a strong community, nature and social services professional who graduated from The University of Zimbabwe and The University of Western Australia.