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Former staff of the Ramsar Convention
Secretariat

Peter Bridgewater

Secretary General

Australia; 2003-2007

Chief Scientist, UK Nature Conservancy Council (1989-1990); Chief Executive, Australian Nature Conservation Agency (1990-1999), Chief Science Adviser, Environment Australia, and Supervising Scientist, Alligator Rivers Region (1997-1999); Director, Division of Ecological sciences, Unesco, and Secretary, Man and the Biosphere Programme (2000-2003); Member, Science and Technology Advisory panel to the Global Environment Facility, UNEP (1998-2000); Chairman, International Whaling Commission (1995-1997); Commissioner, Independent World Commission on the Oceans (1995-98). More than 170 publications on nature conservation, vegetation science and biodiversity issues. Current research interests: linkages between cultural and biological diversity; conservation and management of the coastal zone; landscape ecology, especially its role in sustainable development.

Peter Bridgewater and the Vice-Minister for Agriculture and Forestry, Lao PDR, November 2004.

Australia's Minister of Environment and Heritage David Kemp and Secretary General Peter Bridgewater discussing the joint initiative for Ramsar in the Oceania region during the Commission on Sustainable Development meetings in New York, USA, April 2004.

At the West and Central African Parliamentarians' meeting, Benin, November 2003

With colleagues from the Wetland Advisory and Training Centre, The Netherlands, October 2003

In Montreal (March 2003), with Deputy Secretary General Nick Davidson (left) and Chair of the Standing Committee Gordana Beltram (center). (Photo: Christian Samper)

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 12 August 2003, updated 8 December 2004, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.