Gilles Lecuir

Paris

Having worked as a local communications officer during the first part of my career, since 2010 I have been putting my skills in this field to use in facilitating dialogue and mediation between public and private stakeholders who are concerned, committed, and interested in reconciling the challenges of human development with the preservation of the biosphere that makes it possible. Limiting the major biodiversity crisis (in terms of both the loss of specific diversity and the collapse of populations and disruption of ecological functions), climate change, urban ecology and eco-neighborhoods, ecological economics in the sense of sustainable rather than lasting development, ethics in relations between human beings—both among themselves and with the rest of the non-human world, for which they now bear the greatest ethical responsibility—these are some of the ideas that drive my work 🙂 Since 2010, I have been the organizer of the French Capital of Biodiversity, friendly competition for French municipalities and inter-municipal communities. I live in the Paris region and in Cévennes mountains in south-east of France, and I spend a good part of my time “stealing” the best ideas from my colleagues in other regions (and in return, I try to share them and make them accessible to everyone, of course). In my spare time, I am a “young” generalist entomologist and an even “younger” herpetologist. The more I learn, the less I know! He is also an activist, member of the board of the French NGO Humanity & Biodiversity, and vice-president of the French branch of The Nature Of Cities. He spends most of his spare time photographing insects on flowers… * * * Expert en écologie urbaine, en communication publique et en politiques publiques, Gilles Lecuir travaille pour l’Agence régionale de la Biodiversité en Île-de-France, mais il anime aussi depuis 10 ans le concours national Capitale française de la Biodiversité qui identifie, valorise et diffuse les meilleures pratiques des villes et intercommunalités françaises en matière d’intégration de la nature dans l’ensemble des politiques urbaines. C’est aussi un militant associatif, membre du conseil d’administration de l’association nationale de plaidoyer Humanité & Biodiversité, et vice-président de la branche française de The Nature Of Cities. Il passe la plupart de son temps libre restant à photographier des insectes sur des fleurs…