Former Staff of the Ramsar Convention Bureau
Najam Khurshid
Regional Coordinator for Asia
Pakistan; Ramsar Bureau, 2000-2002
Mr Khurshid, from Pakistan, has been with WWF-Pakistan for the past ten years and has served as Conservation Director, in addition to being in charge of the WWF-Pakistan Wetlands Programme. Prior to that he worked with the Government of Pakistan in the Sindh Wildlife Department and has been visiting professor of Wildlife Management and Conservation at Jinnah University for Women. With an MSc degree in Zoology, specializing in Limnology and Wildlife Management, he is presently pursuing his PhD on "Waterfowl Ecology of the Karachi Coast". He has written a considerable number of papers, reports, and articles on conservation, community participation, and wildlife issues, including a "Wetlands Action Plan for Pakistan".
Najam (right), at the Asian Wetland Symposium in Penang, August 2001, with former Ramsar Asian officers Satoshi Kobayashi and Rebecca D'Cruz
Mr Khurshid (center), welcomed in the Ramsar Bureau by Regional Coordinators Tobias Salathé and Anada Tiéga (April 2000)
His second day at work in the Ramsar Bureau: Mr Khurshid helps Evans Okong'o and Tobias Salathé move 400kg of Handbooks for Wise Use into the IUCN parking garage. Welcome to Ramsar!!
The Convention on Wetlands in action! The Regional Coordinator for Asia prepares busily for his next mission to the region.
Najam on Ramsar Street, Tehran, February 2002.
For
further information about the Ramsar Convention, please contact the Ramsar
Convention Bureau, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland
(tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ramsar@ramsar.org). Posted
26 April 2000, updated 11 February 2003, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.
