Aban Marker Kabraji is the Regional Director of The World Conservation Union (IUCN) in Asia from 1999 onwards. Created in 1948 in Fontainebleau (France), The World Conservation Union is the world's leading environmental organization. Its role is to convene, mobilize, and empower organizations and people to better integrate conservation into economic and social development. IUCN is an observer at the UN General Assembly, with Headquarters in Switzerland. Members comprise a unique combination of States (82) and NGOs (884) and a highly credible network of voluntary individual experts (10,000). The Union has 150 member agencies (government and non-government) in 19 of the 23 countries from South to East Asia and 500 staff in the region.

Aban leads the Asia Regional Office of IUCN in Bangkok, Thailand, and supervises seven Country Offices in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Lao PDR and China. She provides strategic direction to three emerging country programmes-India, China and Thailand-and the nine Regional Thematic Programmes, Biodiversity, Environmental Economics, Environmental Law, Forests, Marine and Coast, Protected Areas, Water and Wetlands, Species, Mountains, which make up the IUCN Ecosystems and Livelihood Group. Within the context of the major environmental conventions such as CITES, CBD and RAMSAR, she supports IUCN policy negotiation and influence, building the capacities of governments in Asia to influence the procedures of the Conferences of the Parties (CoPs).

Biologist by training, Aban has worked for almost 20 years in IUCN, first in Pakistan as IUCN Country Representative (1988-1999) and previously as Regional Director for the Sindh Region of WWF (1985-1987). In 2003, she has been a McCluskey Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she taught how to bring ecology into practice in the context of conservation and development initiatives.

National of Pakistan, she is born on 12 March 1953 in Bombay, India. She is married to Kairas Kabraji, a lawyer and a senior partner in his own firm in Karachi, Kabraji & Talibudding, Advocates & Legal Counsellors and has three children, Sheheryar Kabraji, currently reading medicine at Cambridge, Shahpur Kabraji, lawyer at Clifford Chance in London and Rosheen Kabraji, graduated in Anthropology (BSc) from University College London.