Angela Cropper

Who was Angela Cropper?

Angela Cropper of Trinidad and Tobago served as Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. She was appointed to this position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in November 2007.

Prior to her appointment as ASG, Cropper was an independent member of the Senate in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago and President of The Cropper Foundation, a not-for-profit charitable organization committed to sustainable development. She shared the 2005 Zayed International Prize for "environmental action leading to positive change in society", along with Emil Salim, the former Indonesian minister for population and the environment.

She served in various capacities with the Caribbean Community and Common Market Secretariat and the World Conservation Union. She was interim Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and Senior Adviser on Environment and Development with the United Nations Development Programme.