The Ramsar Convention on
WetlandsThe Ramsar Convention on
Wetlands
List of Participants in the 21st Meeting of the Standing Committee
(19-24 October 1998, Gland, Switzerland) [with some photos]
List of Participants in the 21st Meeting of the Standing Committee
| MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE | |
| Africa | Senegal (Souleye Ndiaye) |
| Alternate: Uganda (Paul Mafabi) | |
| Asia | Malaysia (Kong Wai Cheah, bin Ali Hamidon) |
| Alternate: Iran, Islamic Republic of (Bozorgmehr Ziaran, Mohsen Baharvand, Hossein Moeini Meybodi) | |
| Eastern Europe | Hungary (Chair) (Louise Lakos, Andras Böhm, Zoltàn Varga) |
| Alternate: Russian Federation (Sergey Tveritinov, Oleg Chamanov) | |
| Neotropics | Uruguay (Vice-Chair) (Roberto Cal Johnston, Laura Dupuy) |
| Alternate: Panama (Vanessa Bernal, Elia Guerra de Quijano) | |
| North America | United States of America (Herbert Raffaele, Roberta Chew, Gilberto Cintron, William McPherson, Herbert Yarvin ) |
| Alternate: Canada (Clayton Rubec, Olivier Jalbert) | |
| Oceania | Papua New Guinea (Navu Kwapena) |
| Western Europe | Germany (Fritz Dieterich, Gerold Schenkel) |
| Alternate: France (Michèle Ruzé, Jean Graebling; Christophe Lefebvre, Conservatoire du Littoral) | |
| Host of the 1996 Conference | Australia (Brendan Edgar) |
| Host of the 1999 Conference | Costa Rica (Marco Solano, Mercedes Valverde Kopper, Javier Díaz-Carmona) |
| APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE | New Zealand |
| PERMANENT OBSERVERS | Netherlands (Gerard Boere) |
| Switzerland (Olivier Biber, Meinrad Küttel) | |
| PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS | BirdLife International (John O’Sullivan, David Pritchard) |
| IUCN (David McDowell, Jean Yves Pirot) | |
| Wetlands International (Michael Moser, Scott Frazier) | |
| WWF (Biksham Gujja, Cassandra Phillips) | |
| OBSERVER STATES | Argentina (Andrea Repetti) |
| Austria (Reinhold Turk) | |
| Brazil (Maria Nazareth Azevedo) | |
| China (Yin Hong, Liu Xin) | |
| Colombia (Maria Elvira Posada) | |
| Czech Republic (Josef Chytil) | |
| Egypt (Tarek Adel) | |
| El Salvador (Mario Castro Grande) | |
| Greece (Sofia Markopoulou) | |
| Honduras (Gracibel Bu Figueroa) | |
| Israel (Gary Koren) | |
| Italy (Alessandro Rossi) | |
| Japan (Hideyuki Chiba) | |
| Peru (Gustavo Laurie) | |
| Philippines (Ma. Angelina M. Sta. Catalina) | |
| Portugal (Joao Carlos Farinha, Emília Paula Silva) | |
| Republic of Korea (Sung Hwan Son) | |
| Spain (Enrique Alonso, Antonio Fernández de Tejada Gonzalez) [through Day 1 only] | |
| Trinidad and Tobago (Doolar Ramlal) | |
| Ukraine (Victor Grynyshyn) | |
| UK (Linda Smith, David Stroud) | |
| Venezuela (Dulce Parra) | |
| RAMSAR ACTIVITIES | Scientific and Technical Review Panel (Yaa Ntaimao-Baidu) |
| SECRETARIAT | Secretary General (Delmar Blasco) |
| Deputy Secretary General (Bill Phillips) | |
| MedWet Coordinator (Thymio Papayannis) | |
| Regional Coordinator for Africa (Anada Tiéga) | |
| Regional Coordinator for Asia (Rebecca D’Cruz) | |
| Regional Coordinator for Europe (Tim Jones) | |
| Regional Coordinator for the Neotropics (Montserrat Carbonell) | |
| Executive Assistant for Communications / Rapporteur (Dwight Peck) | |
| Executive Assistant to the Secretary General (Mireille Katz) | |
| Administrator (Julia Tucker) | |
| Finance Officer (Paulette Kennedy) | |
| Project Officer SGF (Annette Keller Pavlic) | |
| Communications Assistant (Valerie Higgins) | |
| Office Clerk (Montserrat Riera) | |
| Intern for Africa (Musonda Mumba) | |
| Intern for Europe (Anett Zellei) | |
| Intern for the Neotropics (Carmen Padilla Velasco) | |
| US Environmental Protection Agency Volunteer (Matthew Little) | |
| Consultant to the Bureau (Sandra Hails) |
For further information, please contact the Ramsar Convention Bureau,
Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (+41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999
0169, e-mail ramsar@hq.iucn.org). Posted
26 November 1998, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.
