Atila Uras is UN Environment’s Sudan Country Programme Manager, supervising the country team in assisting the people of Sudan to achieve peace, recovery and development on an environmentally sustainable basis. He has more than 20 years of experience on programme/project management, environmental governance, policy making, sustainable development, climate change adaptation, integrated coastal zone management and nature conservation, grants management, team leadership, monitoring and evaluation; and the civil society/government/private sector relations at national and international levels.
After working as a coastal engineer in the private sector for few years, he has moved to non-profit world in 1999. He worked as Marine Programme Officer in the Turkish Society for the Protection of Nature (DHKD), as Marine Projects Coordinator in the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Mediterranean Programme Office in Rome, and as the Conservation Director in WWF-Türkiye.
He was board member in several national and international NGOs and foundations, and taught Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Middle East Technical University for more than 5 years. Atila started working in UN in 2006 as a Project Manager at UNDP Türkiye, and then managed a UN Joint Programme on climate change adaptation in Türkiye in 2008-2011. He joined UN Environment in 2012 as Programme Officer to Barcelona Convention/Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) Secretariat in Athens, Greece, where he experienced regional scale environmental policy and governance work in the very first Regional Seas Programme of UN Environment. Before re-joining UN Environment, he was the Assistant Resident Representative of UNDP in Türkiye in 2015-2017. Atila studied Civil Engineering at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Türkiye and holds a Master’s degree on coastal engineering and coastal zone management.
