Ms Jessica BROWN

Executive Director, New England Biolabs Foundation

Jessica Brown is the Executive Director of the New England Biolabs Foundation, a private, US-based foundation, whose mission is to foster stewardship of landscapes and seascapes and the biocultural diversity found in these places. She has extensive experience with community-based conservation globally, having worked in countries of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, Andean South America, Central Europe and the Balkans. Jessica chairs the Protected Landscapes Specialist Group of WCPA and is a member of the ICOMOS/IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes. Current and recent board service includes Terralingua, International Funders for Indigenous Peoples and New England International Donors. She is an associate member of the Graduate Faculty of Rutgers University (Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies) and has served as faculty for recent international capacity-building workshops of the World Heritage Leadership Programme.