The Ramsar Photo Gallery

The Staff of the Ramsar Convention
Secretariat

Tobias Salathé

Senior Advisor for Europe

Switzerland; joined the Secretariat in 1999

Received his MSc.and PhD from Basle University and has worked with ICBP (now BirdLife International) and DG XI of the European Commission, among other posts, and most recently with the Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat in Arles, France. Speaks and writes all of the Ramsar languages and German as well, author of a large number and variety of research reports and other publications.

Monitoring affairs closely at the 4th Ramsar Pan-European regional meeting, October 2001.

With Gordana Beltram (Slovenia) at the Standing Committee Subgroup meetings, May 2002.

Tobias and friends, August 2003

Primary chef at the Ramsar barbecue in the Jura mountains, August 2001

Tobias (center), with Inga Racinska (Latvia), incoming Intern for Europe, and Sasha Belokurov (Russian Federation), departing Assistant to the Regional Coordinator for Europe (November 2000)

Dr Salathé (left) in discussions with the other side of the Deputy Secretary General whilst offloading 7500 kilograms of Ramsar Handbooks for the Wise Use of Wetlands, May 2000

At the Ramsar exhibit, Millennium Wetland Event, Québec, August 2000, with Dwight Peck and Nick Davidson

Québec, August 2000

Tobias Salathé on the right, with incoming and outgoing Interns for Europe, Alexander Belokurov and Anett Zellei, September 1999

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 27 September 1999, updated 20 November 2003, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.