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Abou Bamba

Senior Advisor for Africa

Côte d'Ivoire; joined the Secretariat in 2003

Masters degree in Marine Resources Management from the University of Québec, Canada, 1994; Certificate in Sustainable Environmental Management from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2003. With the Network for Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa (NESDA) since 1998; first as Program Officer and Acting Coordinator, since 2001 as Coordinator. From 1994 to 1998, he worked as Technical Advisor with the World Bank/International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) in Abidjan, 1994-1998. Besides his mother tongue Mandingo, Abou Bamba is fluent in both English and French, and has a good knowledge of Spanish.

Abou (right) with present and former Assistant Advisors for Africa, Ahmed El-Sabban, Ahoua Traore, and Musonda Mumba, May 2004

Mopti, Mali, World Wetlands Day, 2 February 2004

For further information about the Convention on Wetlands, please contact the Ramsar Convention Secretariat, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ). Posted 9 December 2003, updated 12 July 2004, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.