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Former Staff of the Ramsar Convention Secretariat

Shahzia M. Khan

Assistant Advisor for Asia

Bangladesh; 2004-2006

Worked for the IUCN Bangladesh office, where she had responsibility for project development for wetlands, implementing a trade and environment project on WTO's SPS implementation for sustainable shrimp industry, and coordinating IUCN membership and commissions in Bangladesh. She has also worked on local community management issues in the Tanguar Haor Ramsar site, and on indicators and early warning systems for the Sunderbans wetlands. She has training and is interested in Environmental Economics. She has a degree in Environmental Science from the North South University, Dhaka and her dissertation was to study the impact change in management regime for wise-use of wetlands in Ramsar Site - Tanguar Haor.

First day in the Secretariat, December 2004

With her predecessor, Liazzat Rabbiosi, December 2004

Shahzia, Annette Keller, Liazzat Rabbiosi, Valerie Higgins, at Ramsar, December 2004

 March 2006 : Lucia Scodanibbio (South Africa), Shahzia Khan (Bangladesh), Adrián Ruiz-Carvajal (Mexico); Dorothea August (Germany)

With her successor, Pragati Tuladhar, June 2006

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 ). Posted 8 December 2004, updated 17 July 2006, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.