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Fatoumata Keita-Ouane is the new Head of the Chemical Branch | |
Ms Fatoumata Keita-Ouane, a national of Mali, took office as the new Head of Chemicals Branch, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, UNEP in January.
Ms Keita-Ouane holds a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and an advanced degree in Toxicology from the “Université Catholique de Louvain”, Belgium.
She began her international career in Geneva at the World Health Organization’s Division of Pharmaceuticals and then worked in UNEP’s International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (IRPTC), which later evolved to become Chemicals Branch, until 2006. She was responsible for chemical management capacity building, particularly in African countries. Mr Keita-Ouane also initiated activities to build national chemical management infrastructures and supported countries with the negotiations of the Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions.
From 2006 to 2010, Mr Keita-Ouane was appointed Senior Scientific Affairs Officer at the Stockholm Convention Secretariat and led the establishment of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee and the Effectiveness Evaluation Programme for the Convention.
In 2010, she moved to the Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA) where she held the post of Chief of the Scientific Assessment Branch. |
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John E. Scanlon receives 2013 International Environmental Law Award | |
The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) announced on 30 December 2013 that it had awarded the 2013 International Environmental Law Award to John E. Scanlon, Secretary General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). The annual award recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the effort to achieve solutions to environmental problems through international law and institutions.
Mr Scanlon has been honoured for his lifelong contributions to safeguarding environmental integrity and human rights in the management of river basins and dams, to the understanding of the indispensable role of public participation in international environmental governance, and for his ongoing leadership of CITES.
“Mr Scanlon has made significant contributions to our understanding of the intersecting legal, ethical and environmental dimensions--and values--that must inform water governance in the 21st century and beyond,” said CIEL President Carroll Muffett. He also noted Mr Scanlon’s leadership on environmental law within the International Union for Conservation of Nature and on work on international environmental governance within UNEP.
As CITES celebrates its 40th year, the award also recognizes Mr Scanlon’s role in fostering a maturing understanding of the Convention and in the recognition of CITES’s major role in achieving long term goals for the conservation of biological diversity.
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