Ignace Schops is a conservationist and a world authority in the field of sustainable and economically profitable nature management. Schops is a member of Al Gore's Climate Leadership Corps. He is an Ashoka fellow and a Full Member of the EU Chapter of the Club of Rome. From 2014 to 2021, he served as President of EUROPARC Federation, the largest European network for natural and cultural heritage. Ignace Schops’s work has been praised by internationally renowned conservationists such as Sir David Attenborough and Dame Jane Goodall. In 2008, he was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize, also known as the 'green Nobel Prize'.