Ambroise Brenier

About

Ambroise Brenier joined the World Bank in 2021 to lead environment programs in Indonesia and Timor-Leste, and more recently Zambia and Malawi. He previously served as the Wildlife Conservation Society's Country Director for Papua New Guinea. In PNG, he led the largest field conservation program in a country home to the third largest tropical rainforest in the world and surrounded by the world's most diverse coral reefs. Ambroise and his team worked with the government and hundreds of indigenous communities around the country to triple Papua New Guinea's marine protected areas coverage, preserve intact forests, promote the sustainable use of natural resources, and improve people's livelihoods. 

Prior to this role, he led the Wildlife Conservation Society's marine conservation efforts in Madagascar, including the creation of three marine protected areas—doubling the country's marine protected area network; the creation of the country's first shark sanctuary; the development of a fisheries co-management plan, and the creation of dozens of community-managed fishery zones for Madagascar's largest bay, the latter which was awarded the United Nations Equator Prize in 2014. 

Ambroise also served as the program manager for a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection of marine life in West Africa, and he studied coral reefs and coastal fisheries in New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Madagascar as part of his Master's and PhD research. Ambroise is a Yale World Fellow and has a PhD in Marine Biology from Sorbonne University (formerly University Pierre and Marie Curie).