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Nick Davidson

Deputy Secretary General

United Kingdom; joined the Secretariat in 2000

Dr Davidson is a citizen of the UK and was employed by English Nature whilst serving on secondment as Science Coordinator for the International Coordination Unit of Wetlands International, based in Wageningen, The Netherlands. Prior to that he has been associated with the Nature Conservancy Council in Peterborough, UK, and with the Department of Zoology of the University of Durham, and from 1991 to 1997 as Head of the Coastal Review Unit and then as Communications Manager with JNCC, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee in the UK. He has a BSc Hons. in Zoology from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD, also in Zoology, from the University of Durham.

With Marcos Silva, CBD secretariat, SBSTTA-8, March 2003 (Photo:ENB)

In plenary, Ramsar COP8, Valencia, Spain, November 2002

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With Bill Phillips (right), Dr Davidson's predecessor as DSG, February 2000

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The Deputy Secretary General performing up to expectations at the Central America/Caribbean/North America Subregional Meeting in San Pedro Sula, Hondura, September 2001. His colleague in yellow has been seconded from the Garifona indigenous dance troupe. (Photos by Marco A. Flores)

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Nick (left) with Tobias Salathé and Elena Blasco at a Ramsar barbecue in the Jura mountains, August 2001, Lake Geneva in the distance behind.

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Nick Davidson delivers a keynote address at the Québec 2000 Millennium Wetland Event, 7 August 2000. (Photo: D. Peck/Ramsar)

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Two people, eight wine glasses -- you do the math. At the Standing Committee 25 dinner with Sandra Hails.

Doug Taylor (Wetlands International), Nick Davidson (Ramsar), and Clay Rubec (Canada), at the Standing Committee Subgroup meetings, May 2002.

For further information, 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 28 April 2000, updated 21 March 2003, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.

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