Mr Peter SHADIE

Senior Adviser - World Heritage Programme, IUCN

Peter Shadie is IUCN's Senior Adviser on World Heritage, based in IUCN headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. He served as Ad-Interim Director of the IUCN World Heritage Programme for two years in 2019-2020. Through the period 2000 to 2017, he was a member of the IUCN World Heritage Panel, which reviews World Heritage nominations and provides technical advice to IUCN.

Peter has more than 35 years’ experience working in conservation. He began his career as a park ranger with Australia’s New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service before joining IUCN’s Global Protected Areas Programme in 1999 where he was Executive Director for the 2003 IUCN World Parks Congress. From 2006 to 2010 he led IUCN’s work on protected areas across 23 countries as Head of its Protected Areas Programme in Asia. He then returned to his homeland Australia, working as a freelance consultant.