Search Underway For New Director General Of IUCN

Achim Steiner will be stepping down as World Conservation Union (IUCN) Director General on 31 May in order to take up his appointment as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) from 15 June 2006. A Search Committee has been constituted to find a successor and a process launched to fill this key position of Chief Executive of the World Conservation Union. Advertisement has been placed in several major publications and it is now being widely distributed through electronic networks and on websites. Spread the message around. For more information, please visit www.iucn.org/dgsearch.