The Ramsar Photo Gallery

The Staff of the Ramsar Convention
Secretariat

Dwight Peck

Communications Officer

USA; joined the Secretariat as part-time help in 1993 (full-time in 1995)

From New Jersey, USA. 2 BAs in Philosophy and English Lit, Univ Kansas - 2 world records in track and field relay events; MA and PhD, Renaissance Literature, Ohio Univ.; MLS, Library Science, Univ. Rhode Island.  Instructor, Ohio Univ.; Ass't Prof, Western Civilization, History of Ideas, Oklahoma Bapt Univ; Assoc Prof., Comparative Lit, American College of Switzerland. Head Librarian, Academic Dean, American College of Switzerland. Librarian, American Library of Geneva. Publications: articles and one book on 16th century history; poems, short stories, drama.

Ramsar party in Begnins, July 2003

Relaxing away from the office, September 2003

April 1998

Schmoozing with BirdLife, Ramsar COP8, Valencia, Spain, November 2002

Foofing with his youngest daughter, Marlowe, near the Glacier of Trient, 1999

With daughter Marlowe, formerly of Switzerland and England, then of the USA, now a college student in Canada, fledgling photojournalist (e.g., Titicaca)

Discussing the Wise Use Principle with the Ramsar, CBD, and CMS National Focal Point from Slovenia, August 2000.

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 10 June 1998, updated 28 September 2003, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.