Yvo de Boer

Yvo de Boer was the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 4 September 2006 to 1 July 2010. He was appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on 10 August 2006.

Prior to joining the UNFCCC, he was Director for International Affairs of the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment of the Netherlands. He was in charge of international policy, both in the context of the European Union, as well as involving broader international cooperation.

De Boer also served as Deputy Director-General for Environmental Protection in the same Ministry, as Head of the Climate Change Department and has worked in the fields of housing and public information. He focused mainly on the climate change negotiations both before and after the signing of the Kyoto Protocol. De Boer has also worked for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) earlier in his career.

From July 1 2010, Yvo de Boer joined ICIS as a professorial fellow ‘Climate Change Policy’