Managing Director and Founder
Francis Staub began his career at the French Ministry of Environment, followed by a position at the World Bank headquarters in Washington D.C., Environment Department. He later transitioned into consulting and founded Blue Pangolin Consulting in 2009, specialising in the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
Since 2016, Francis has served as the Global Coordinator of the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), a partnership chaired by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the General Organisation for Conservation of Coral Reefs and Turtles in the Red Sea (SHAMS).
He is a co-author of the latest GCRMN Status of Coral Reefs of the World report and was honoured with the Coral Reef Conservation Award from the International Coral Reef Society in 2024 for his significant contributions to coral reef protection.
Francis is the managing director and founder of Blue Pangolin consulting. He also serves as the Global Coordinator for the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), and strategic advisor to the nitiative Française Pour Les Récifs Coralliens (IFRECOR). Francis started his career working for the French Ministry of Environment, then the World Bank headquarters in Washington D.C. at the Environment Department before becoming a consultant. Based in London since 2012, he founded Blue Pangolin Consulting, a consultancy company working towards the conservation and sustainable use of marine, coastal and terrestrial resources. Francis also has a strong interest in Marine Protected Areas and developed several tools to evaluate their effectiveness.
For the last 20 years, Francis has been involved in the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI). He acted as strategic advisor to most of the governments who have chaired ICRI (USA, France, Australia, Japan among others). He is currently ICRI’s global coordinator on behalf of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Francis has been involved in the creation of the Global Fund for Coral Reefs and is representing ICRI at the Board of the Fund. He is also an advisor to the advisory board of the newly created The Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security (CTI-CFF) Regional Conservation Trust Fund. He was also involved in the creation of the G20 Coral Research & Development Accelerator Platform (CORDAP).
He is also a member of the Steering committee of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN) and a strategic advisor to the French Coral Reef Initiative.
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