29th Meeting of the Ramsar Standing Committee

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
(as of 28 February 2003)

VOTING MEMBERS

AFRICA

• Botswana: not attending
• Ghana: Mr B. Yaw OFORI-FRIMPONG
• Morocco: Mr Mohamed ANKOUZ

ASIA

• Indonesia: Ms Esti ANDAYANI, Mr Ade PETRANTO
• Iran: Mr Javad AMIN MANSOUR (Vice Chair), Mr Masoud BAGHERZADEH KARIMI
• Japan: Mr Toshiyuki TAGA, Minister (Head), Dr Makoto KOMODA, Ms Naoko NAKAJIMA, Mr Kazuhiro OKUMA, Mr Akiho SHIBATA

EUROPE

• Armenia: Dr Karen JENDEREDJIAN
• Austria: Mr Günter LIEBEL, Dr Gerhard SIGMUND
• Romania: Mr Virgil MUNTEANU
• Slovenia: Dr Gordana BELTRAM (Chair), Ms Alenka MARKOV

NEOTROPICS

• Argentina: Ms Alicia DE HOZ, Minister, Lic. Victoria LICHTSCHEIN
• Nicaragua: Ing. Milton CAMACHO BONILLA

NORTH AMERICA

• Canada: Mr Trevor SWERDFAGER (Chair of Subgroup on Finance), Mr Stephen VIRC

OCEANIA

• Papua New Guinea: Dr Navu KWAPENA

Hosts of COP8 and COP9

• Spain: Mr José Ramón PICATOSTE, Mr Miguel AYMERICH HUYGHUES
• Uganda: Mr Paul MAFABI

OBSERVERS

Permanent Observers

• Switzerland: Dr Meinrad KÜTTEL, Dr Olivier BIBER
• The Netherlands: Ir. Henk J. EGGINK
• BirdLife International: Mr David PRITCHARD
• IUCN - The World Conservation Union: Dr Jean-Yves PIROT
• Wetlands International: Dr Douglas TAYLOR
• WWF International: Mr Christopher WILLIAMS, Ms Sian Kathryn OWEN

CP Observers

• Algeria: Ms Dalal SOLTANI
• France: Ms Isabelle VIAL
• Kenya: Ms Jean-Marie Tabu IRINA
• Mexico: Ms Graciela Eva PIZANO
• Panamá : H.E. Mr Anel BELIZ, Ambassador
• South Africa: Ms Fiyola HOOSEN
• UK: Ms Louise VALL, Ms Elizabeth MOORE
• USA: Dr Herbert RAFFAELE, Ms Lynette POULTON KAMAKURA

Interpreters

• Ms Java DENKINGER
• Ms Beatrice FERGUSON
• Ms Régine JOBA
• Ms Eleanor KANTER
• Ms Micheline KARAM-CLEUSIX
• Ms Luz PAZOS

Ramsar Bureau Staff

• Mr Delmar BLASCO, Secretary General
• Dr Nick DAVIDSON, Deputy Secretary General
• Mr Alain LAMBERT, Senior Advisor Environment/Development Cooperation

Regional Coordinators:

• Mr Anada TIEGA, Africa
• Ms Margarita ASTRÁLAGA, Americas
• Mr Guangchun LEI, Asia
• Dr Tobias SALATHÉ, Europe

Interns/Assistants to Regional Coordinators

• Ms Nassima AGHANIM, Africa
• Mr Julio MONTES DE OCA, Americas
• Ms Jia MA, Asia
• Mr Sergey DERELIEV, Europe

• Rapporteur: Dr Dwight PECK, Executive Assistant for Communications
• Dr Alexandra HAILS, Senior Communications Assistant
• Ms Valerie HIGGINS, Communications Assistant
• Ms Mireille KATZ, Executive Assistant to the Secretary General
• Ms Annette KELLER, Administration Coordinator
• Ms Paulette KENNEDY, Project Administrator
• Ms Montserrat RIERA, Office Service Assistant
• Mr Ibrahim SHAAME, Accountant
• Mr Carlos VILLALBA, Technical Officer (COP8 follow-up and MedWet)
• MedWet Office Athens: Mr Spyros KOUVELIS, Coordinator