John E. Scanlon (born 1961 in Australia) has worked on environment and sustainable development issues at the international, national, sub-national and local level with government, the private sector, international organisations and the United Nations. He has specific expertise on law, policy, institutions and governance. He is the Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Before joining CITES, he was Principal Adviser on Policy and Programme, and Team Leader of the Strategic Implementation Team, at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Director of the Environmental Law Centre with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Before that he was Chief Executive of the Department of Environment