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The Staff of the Ramsar Convention Bureau

Estelle Gironnet

Assistant Advisor for Europe

France; joined the Bureau in 2003

Master's in biology from the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, having focused on the functioning of a water treatment station. Her work experiences are diverse: In 2000, she worked briefly in the Nature Park of Luberon in southern France, assisting the manager of this wildlife rescue centre. In 2001, she spent nine months at the Doñana research station (Spain) to study the impact on birds of the Aznalcollar mine spill, followed by six months in Greece with the Katelios Association for Research and Protection of Wildlife, where she worked in the field of environmental education for the conservation and reproduction of marine turtles. Besides her native language, French, Estelle is fluent in English and Spanish and has some knowledge of Italian and Greek.

With Liazzat Rabbiosi (Ramsar) and Camille Soulié (IUCN), Lake Son Kul, Kyrgystan, August 2004

WWF party in Begnins, July 2003

With Nassima Aghanim, Begnins, July 2003

Riding for Ramsar -- descent of the Rhône, July 2003.

September 2003: with Iván Dario Valencia, Liazzat Rabbiosi, Nassima Aghanim

Having just joined the Bureau in May 2003, with her predecessor Sergei Dereliev of Bulgaria.

With BOTH her predecessors as Assistant to the Regional Coordinator for Europe: Sergei Dereliev and Alexandre Belokurov.

For further information about the Ramsar Convention, 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 22 May 2003, updated 8 December 2004, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.