WORKING GROUP CHAIR

The Working Group has agreed on a rotating Chairmanship. Besides leading Working Group meetings, the Chair will guide the work of the group in the inter-sessional period with the help of the Working Group Coordinator. At the first Working Group meeting in Helsinki, Finland in 2010, the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat was requested by the range states to act as Chair. Hence AEWA Technical Officer Sergey Dereliev is currently chairing the group on behalf of the Secretariat.

Sergey is a Bulgarian national who joined the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat in 2004 after working with bird and wetland conservation issues at BirdLife Bulgaria as well as at the Ramsar Convention Secretariat. As Technical Officer of AEWA Sergey is responsible for the facilitation of the work of the AEWA Technical Committee as well as the development of programmes and related projects. He provides scientific and technical input, particularly with relation to Management Plans and Species Action Plans.

Contact details:

Sergey Dereliev
AEWA Technical Officer

UNEP/AEWA Secretariat
UN Campus
Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10
53113 Bonn, GERMANY

Tel:   +49 (0)228 815 2415
Fax:   +49 (0)228 815 2450

E-mail:  sdereliev@unep.de [2]
Website:  www.unep-aewa.org [3]

Dr Hanneline Smit-Robinson

AEWA White-winged Flufftail IWG coordinator

BirdLife South Africa

Tel: +27 (0)11 789 1122

Fax: +27 (0)11 789 5188

Email: hanneline.smit-robinson@birdlife.org.za [4]