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The Staff of the
MedWet Secretariat

Nejib Benessaiah

MedWet Policy Advisor

Tunisia; joined the MedWet Coordination Unit in Athens, Greece, in June 2001

Trained in Paris and Montpellier as an architect and urban planner. Following a number of years working as a technical advisor with the United Nations Centre of Human Settlements-Habitat in many parts of subsaharan Africa, he has been involved with MedWet since 1996, particularly in socio-economic issues, and is known to many for his role in some of MedWet’s most impressive publications, particularly Mediterranean Wetlands: Socio-economic Aspects, published in 1998 by DG XI of the European Commission for the Ramsar Convention.

En route to MedWet/Com5, June 2003

The MedWet Coordinator (right) with the full staff of the MW-CU and the Special Advisor to the Secretary General, in the garden of Villa Kazouli where the Coordination Unit is hosted, September 2002.

Nejib Benessaiah, Angela Kyriazis, Maria Anagnostopoulou, Thymio Papayannis, Spyros Kouvelis

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 r. Posted 6 September 2001, updated 4 August 2003, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.