Marianne Kleiberg

Marianne is a TNC global leader with over 25 years’ experience in four different TNC regions—North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe. Marianne leads the Europe team as a catalyst for global conservation impact, supporting and leveraging the vital work of TNC across regions. She is the Chair of the TNC UK Foundation Limited and President of the TNC in Switzerland Foundation. TNC Europe has staff in Berlin, Brussels, London, Zagreb and Geneva, engaging with business leaders, governments, philanthropists and global change agents to support and accelerate public and private funding, public policy and large scale and lasting global conservation impact. 

Marianne is a native of Norway and lives and works in Berlin. During her tenure with the organization, she established TNC’s first in-country presence in Baja California, Mexico, began new TNC country programs in Haiti and Cuba and was the first female regional director at TNC. Before joining TNC, she worked as an international development consultant and operations manager of a manganese mining company in Panama and worked in the timber industry in Norway. She has a Master’s Degree as a Fulbright Scholar in Latin American Studies with a concentration in Political Ecology.