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Former Staff of the Ramsar Convention Bureau

Margarita Astrálaga

Senior Advisor for the Americas

Colombia; 1999-2007

B.Sc in Biology and M.A. in Regional Planning and Development from Los Andes University in Bogotá, with additional studies in environmental management at the Water Quality Institute in Denmark. Served for eight years as Chief of Division in the Environment Department of INDERENA (Instituto Nacional de los Recursos Naturales y del Medio Ambiente) in Colombia, then for six years as a Programme Officer with UNEP in Nairobi; following that she served as Head of the Capacity Building Unit with CITES in Geneva, and then as a consultant for UNEP, the Inter-American Bank and the World Bank, and the Argentine Secretary of Natural Resources and Sustainable Development.

August 2003

Signing of the Ramsar MOU with the Cartegna Convention (May 2000): from left: Delmar Blasco; Margarita Astrálaga, Ramsar Regional Coordinator for the Americas, who was instrumental in guiding the text of the Memorandum to a successful conclusion; Nelson Andrade. 
(Photo: M. Katz, Ramsar)

Ramsar Bureau, September 1999 [Photo: Valerie Higgins]

With Tobias Salathé, Regional Coordinator for Europe, September 1999

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 27 September 1999, updated 20 November 2003, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.