Mr Christophe BESACIER

Coordinator of the Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism, FAO

 Christophe Besacier is currently coordinating the Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) at FAO, where he is providing technical assistance and implementing restoration projects in more than twenty countries.  He is involved in major international restoration initiatives such as the Bonn Challenge, the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) and the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. From 2009 to 2014 he was in charge of the Committee on Mediterranean Forests-Silva Mediterranea. From 2000 to 2009, he worked as regional advisor for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Sahel and the Congo Basin regions.