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Former Staff of the Ramsar Secretariat

(This is not a complete listing of all former staff, only a menu of bio pages that we have in the archive.)

Secretary General

Peter Bridgewater (Australia)

Secretary General

Delmar Blasco (Argentina)

Secretary General

Dan Navid (USA)

Senior Policy Advisor

Mike Smart (UK)

Interim Secretary General

James McCuaig (Canada)

Deputy Secretary General

Bill Phillips (Australia)

Senior Trade and Development Advisor

Alain Lambert (Belgium)

Technical Officer for Asia

Satoshi Kobayashi (Japan)

Director of Conservation

Hervé Lethier (France)

Senior Advisor for Asia-Pacific

Lei Guangchun (China)

Regional Coordinator for Asia

Rebecca d'Cruz (Malaysia)

Regional Coordinator for Asia
Najam Khurshid (Pakistan)

Regional Coordinator for Europe

Tim Jones (United Kingdom)

Senior Advisor for the Americas

Margarita Astrálaga (Colombia)

Regional Coordinator for the Neotropics

Montserrat Carbonell (Spain/Argentina)

Technical Officer for the Neotropics

Monica Herzig (Mexico)

Regional Coordinator for Africa

Anada Tiéga (Niger)

Regional Coordinator for Africa

Tom Kabii (Kenya)

MedWet Coordinator; Senior Advisor

Human Resources Officer

Annette Keller (Switzerland)

Accountant

Ibrahim Shaame (Tanzania)

MedWet Assistant

Clarita Martinet-Fay (Switzerland)

Executive Assistant

Erika Luthi (Switzerland)

Communications Assistant

Ana de Giorgio (Ecuador)

Project Administration Officer

Julia Tucker (UK/Switzerland)

Secretary
Maureen Wittig (UK/Switzerland)

Data Management Officer

Carlos Villalba (Spain)

Assistant Advisor for Africa

Lucia Scodanibbio (South Africa)

Assistant Advisor for Africa

Ahmed El-Sabban (Egypt)

Assistant Advisor for Africa

Nassima Aghanim (Algeria)

Ramsar Intern for Africa

Simon Rafanomezantsoa (Madagascar)

Ramsar Intern for Africa

Evans Okong'o (Kenya)

Ramsar Intern for Africa

Musonda Mumba (Zambia)

Ramsar Intern for Africa

Ahoua Traore (Cote d'Ivoire)

Assistant Advisor for the Americas

Adrián Ruiz-Carvajal (Mexico)

Assistant Advisor for the Americas

Iván Darío Valencia (Colombia)

Intern / Assistant to the RC for the Americas

Julio Montes de Oca (Costa Rica & Mexico)

Ramsar Intern for the Americas

Ramsar Intern for the Americas

Flor de Maria Salvador Perez (Peru)

Ramsar Intern for the Neotropics

Carmen Elena Padilla Velasco (Honduras)

Ramsar Intern for the Neotropics

Raquel Siguenza de Micheo (Guatemala)

Intern / Assistant Advisor for Asia-Pacific

Shahzia M. Kahn (Bangladesh)
Intern / Assistant Advisor for Asia-Pacific
Liazzat Rabbiosi (Kazakhstan)

Intern / Assistant to the RC for Asia

Jia Ma (China)

Ramsar Intern for Asia

Satiraporn ("Tug") Sirisampan (Thailand)

Ramsar Intern for Asia

Taeko Takahashi (Japan)

Ramsar Intern for Asia

Parastu Mirabzadeh (Islamic Republic of Iran)

Ramsar Intern for Asia

Jamshed Kazi (Bangladesh)

Ramsar Intern for Asia and Oceania

Jocelyn Bowden (Australia)

Assistant Advisor for Europe

Assistant Advisor for Europe

Intern / Assistant to the RC for Europe

Sergey Dereliev (Bulgaria)

Ramsar Intern for Europe

Inga Racinska (Latvia)

Ramsar Intern for Europe

Alexander Belokurov (Russian Federation)

Ramsar Intern for Europe

Anett Zellei (Hungary)

Ramsar Intern for Europe

Maryse Mahy (Canada)

MedWet Coordinator

Spyros Kouvelis (Greece)

MedWet Communications Officer

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IUCN-the World Conservation Union, in Gland, Switzerland -- home of the Ramsar Secretariat.


For further information about Secretariat staff or the Convention itself, please contact: The Ramsar Convention Secretariat, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, +41 22 999 0160, e-mail ). Posted 11 June 1998, last modified 7 May 2008, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.