Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak (Arabic: رزان خليفة المبارك; born 1979) is the managing director of the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD),[1] and the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund as well as the current president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
[3] She is the daughter of Khalifa Ahmed Abdulaziz Al-Mubarak,[4] a former UAE ambassador to France who was assassinated in 1984 in Paris by the Abu Nidal Organization,[5] and Sameera Al Khamis.
Al Mubarak's grandfather was Ahmed Abdulaziz Hamad Al-Mubarak, former judge and chairperson of the Shari'a Judicial Department in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
[1][10] Appointed in 2011,[9] she was the first woman[11] to serve as secretary general and was promoted to its board of directors in 2018 by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
[12] Under Al Mubarak, the EAD played a key role to reintroduce the scimitar-horned oryx into the wild in Chad.