The Ramsar Photo Gallery

The Staff of the Ramsar Convention Bureau
Secretariat

Valerie Higgins

Senior Administrative Assistant

United Kingdom; joined the Secretariat in 1996

Studied at (the then) Oxford Polytechnic, then worked for British Foreign Service. Lived and/or worked in France, Austria, Greece, Cyprus, Germany, Egypt, USA -- in Switzerland since 1991. Married, with 3 sons and a daughter. Working languages: English, French.

July 2003

Valerie (left), with Montse Riera and Sandra Hails, Ramsar barbeque, August 2000

Holding up a bottle of some sort, October 2000.

With a very large crowd of admirers, October 1997

with Annette Keller

Flaunting COP7 registration fees with Montse Riera, Costa Rica, May 1999

Discussing the results of COP7 with John O'Sullivan, BirdLife International, San José, May 1999

Pondering the Ramsar COP7 database with Sandra Hails, San José, Costa Rica, May 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 10 June 1998, updated 20 November 2003, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.