The
Staff of the Ramsar Convention
Secretariat
Alexia Dufour
Regional Affairs Officer
France;
joined the Secretariat in 2007
A French national, Alexia has advanced university degrees in environmental sciences and ecology from the Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et Forêts (National School of Rural Engineering, Water and Forests) in Paris and the Universities of Lausanne in Switzerland and Besançon in France. She has taught ecology at university level, as well as biology and geology at high school level. For her doctoral studies she managed a research project on the links between landscape structure and plant biodiversity in the Jura region of France and Switzerland. Alexia's practical wetland experience includes working on a management plan, involving local stakeholders, at the Estagnol Pond Nature Reserve in southern France.
On the Ramsar study trip to Lac de Bourget, September 2007
Untere Lobau Ramsar site, Austria, November 2007
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 14 November 2007, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.