The Ramsar Photo Gallery

Former Staff of the Ramsar Convention Secretariat

Liazzat Rabbiosi

Assistant Advisor for Asia

Kazakhstan; Ramsar Secretariat, 2003-2004

Degree in linguistics from Kazakh State University of World Languages, Almaty; apart from her native Russian and Kazakh she speaks English, French and some Italian. She worked as an assistant on the project "Water Resources of the Aral Sea" with the Kazakh State Academy of Architecture and Construction. In 2000, she obtained a Master's degree in environmental studies from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK (Graduate School of Environmental Studies), with a thesis on management of the Caspian Sea level fluctuation. Since October 2001 before joining Ramsar she worked as a researcher with an environmental management consultancy in Edinburgh, Scotland, particularly involved in the projects for oil and gas industry of her country.

Ramsar Evian Encounter, Evian, France, November 2004

With Camille Soulié (IUCN) and Estelle Gironnet (Ramsar), Lake Son Kul, Kyrgystan, August 2004

August 2003

Liazzat (right) with her predecessor in the Ramsar Bureau, Jia Ma (China), May 2003

September 2003: with Iván Dario Valencia, Nassima Aghanim, Estelle Gironnet

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 22 May 2003, updated 8 December 2004, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.