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The Staff of the Ramsar Convention
Secretariat

Sandra Hails

CEPA Programme Officer

United Kingdom; joined the Secretariat, originally as a consultant, in 1997

Born in Scotland, earned a BA and PhD in biological sciences at the University of Stirling. Spent 12 years in Southeast Asia as a lecturer and researcher at both school and university levels. Continued to develop an early interest in conservation and wrote regularly about natural history and conservation for the press as a freelance writer. On returning to Europe in the late 1980s she continued this conservation interest, working as a freelance consultant doing research and editing for IUCN, WHO and WWF before beginning a close relationship with the Ramsar Bureau which continues to the present. Sandra is married with two sons.

Sandra (centre) on a bad hair day, August 2003

Sandra (right), with Valerie Higgins and Montse Riera, at the Ramsar barbecue, August 2000

In a quaffing contest with Deputy Secretary General Nick Davidson, who seems already to have given up (Standing Committee 25, October 2000)

In her green hair mode, luckily infrequently (Hallowe'en 2000)

Resurrecting the COP7 registration database with Valerie Higgins, San José, May 1999

Stacking up her work for 1999-2000: the Ramsar Handbooks for Wise Use arriving in the IUCN garage, May 2000

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 10 June 1998, updated 20 November 2003, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.