Jean-Claude Faby is Senior Adviser to the UN Foundation. He has had a long career with the United Nations, mostly handling environment and social and economic issues. He worked for many years for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as their political point man in New York, representing UNEP at various UN meetings including the General Assembly.

In 1990, he became Director for North America for the UN Conference on Environment and Development which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992; he also served as spokesman for the Secretary-General of the Conference, Maurice Strong. He subsequently worked as Chief of Staff for the UN Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development which was created after the Rio Conference. Before joining the Foundation, he was deeply involved in the re-structuring of the UN. Mr. Faby has degrees in Political Science, Law and International Economic Relations from the Paris Institute of Political Science, Aix en Provence Law School and Yale University.