{"id":40461,"date":"2023-11-30T09:29:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T08:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/?p=40461"},"modified":"2023-11-30T09:33:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T08:33:32","slug":"jean-jalbert-general-director-of-the-tour-du-valat-elected-vice-president-of-the-board-of-directors-of-the-conservatoire-du-littoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/actualites-en\/jean-jalbert-general-director-of-the-tour-du-valat-elected-vice-president-of-the-board-of-directors-of-the-conservatoire-du-littoral\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Jalbert, General Director of the Tour du Valat, elected Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Conservatoire du littoral"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>The Tour du Valat, its Board of Directors and all its employees are pleased and proud to announce the election of Jean Jalbert, General <\/strong><strong>Director <\/strong><strong style=\"font-size: 1em\">of the Tour du Valat and Vice-President of the French IUCN Committee, to the position of Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Conservatoire du littoral.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Jean Jalbert thus becomes Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Conservatoire du littoral, seconding President Agn\u00e8s Langevine, Vice-President of the Occitanie Region, and alongside Hubert Dejean de la B\u00e2tie, Vice-President of the Normandy Region.<\/p>\n<p>For Jean Jalbert: <strong>&#8220;<\/strong><em><strong>This election to the vice-presidency of the Conservatoire du littoral, a great institution dear to the hearts of the French, is for me a great honor. It is, above all, a recognition of my commitment towards nature and in particular Mediterranean wetlands. It is also, of course, an acknowledgement of the work carried out since almost 70 years by the Tour du Valat to preserve these fertile but fragile and threatened ecosystems&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18586 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jalbert-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jalbert-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jalbert-3-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jalbert-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jalbert-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jalbert-3-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jalbert-3-1320x880.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jalbert-3.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 300px\" \/>Jean Jalbert is an agricultural engineer with a master&#8217;s degree in biology. In the early part of his career he pursued a diversified professional path, managing several organisations working at the interface between environmental and agricultural issues. At the same time, he was active in a number of environmental associations.<br \/>\nIn 1994, Jean Jalbert joined the Tour du Valat, a research institute for the conservation of Mediterranean wetlands as Project Manager and then Director of Conservation. He has been General Director since 2004, deploying the institute&#8217;s strategy throughout the Mediterranean basin. He leads a multi-disciplinary team of 90 people and oversees a program of high-level research aimed at developing and implementing conservation strategies, as well as informing public policy in favor of wetlands.<br \/>\nJean Jalbert is involved in the governance of various organisations, both in France and internationally including:<br \/>\n\u2022 Vice-President of the French Committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN),<br \/>\n\u2022 Member of the French National Biodiversity Committee (CNB),<br \/>\n\u2022 Board Member of Ramsar France,<br \/>\n\u2022 President of the MedWet Secretariat,<br \/>\n\u2022 Member of the Board of Wetlands International Europe (Netherlands),<br \/>\n\u2022 Member of the Executive Board of the Maison m\u00e9diterran\u00e9enne du climat (Morocco),<br \/>\n\u2022 Board Member of the Mediterranean Initiative for Nature and Anthropos -MedINA (Greece),<br \/>\n\u2022 Board Member of the Luc Hoffmann Flyway Fund &#8211; BirdLife International (UK).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tour du Valat, its Board of Directors and all its employees are pleased and proud to announce the election of Jean Jalbert, General Director of the Tour du Valat and Vice-President of the French IUCN Committee, to the position of Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Conservatoire du littoral. Jean Jalbert thus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites-en","country-france-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40462,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40461\/revisions\/40462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tourduvalat.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}