Tokyo Conference on Combating Wildlife Crime United Nations University, Tokyo Information Brochure: Invited Participants
Opening & Felicitations Moderator Dr. Christopher Doll Research Fellow United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) Christopher Doll is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS). He has a broad range of research interests, across the fields of urbanisation, biodiversity and development. With a strong background in geospatial analysis, he has complemented this with city level work on biodiversity and developing tools to plan for global/local co-benefits across urban sectors (transport, waste and energy). He teaches an elective course on geospatial techniques for environmental governance within the MSc. programme. Dr. Doll was born and educated in the UK. He has a first degree in geography and mathematics from Royal Holloway and a masters and PhD in Remote Sensing from University College London. He has previously held positions at Columbia University (CIESIN) in New York and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria as well as the JSPS Fellowship with UNU-IAS and the University of Tokyo.
Speakers: 1. Prof. Govindan Parayil Vice-Rector of the United Nations University, Tokyo Prof. Govindan Parayil joined the United Nations University as a Vice-Rector in August 2008. Prior to joining UNU, he had served since 2004 as a full Professor with the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo (Norway), where his research focus was on science, technology, innovation and sustainability. He served concurrently as Director of Research and Leader of the Innovation Group for two years. Prior to that, he was Head of the Information and Communications Management Programme and a member of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore (2001 2004), and was on the faculty of the Division of Social Sciences of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1994 2001). His previous academic affiliations include Cornell University, Illinois Institute of Technology and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) and the University of Sulaimaniyah (Iraq). 2. Dr. David Malone (video message) Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Rector of the United Nations University, Tokyo Dr. David M. Malone joined the United Nations University on 1 March 2013 as its sixth Rector. In that role, he holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. A Canadian national, Rector Malone holds a BAA from l École des Hautes Études Commerciales (Montreal); an Arabic Language Diploma from the American University (Cairo); an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and a DPhil in International Relations from Oxford University. Prior to joining the United Nations University Dr. David Malone served (2008 2013) as President of Canada s International Development Research Centre, a funding agency that supports policy-relevant research in the developing world. Dr. Malone previously served as Canada s Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council and as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations (1990 1994); as Director General of the Policy, International Organizations and Global Issues Bureaus within Canada s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT, 1994 1998); as President of the International Peace Academy (now International Peace Institute), a New York-based independent research and policy development institution (1998 2004); as DFAIT Assistant Deputy Minister for Global Issues (2004 2006); and as Canada s High Commissioner to India, and non-resident Ambassador to Bhutan and Nepal (2006 2008).
3. Mr. Kazuhiro Takahashi Director of Global Environment Division Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Within MOFA, Mr. Takahashi is responsible for international environmental institutions such as UNEP and Multilateral Environment Agreements including the Ramsar Convention, CITES, Convention on Biological Diversity, and others. 4. Hon. Dr. Maria Mutagamba Minister of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities Republic of Uganda Hon. Dr. Maria Mutagamba was appointed Minister of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities in the Republic of Uganda on 15th August 2012, and is also the Woman Representative of Parliament for Rakai District. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Economics Degree of Makerere University in Kampala and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the McMaster University in Canada. Prior to her appointment, Hon. Dr. Mutagamba, has been Minister of Water and Environment (2006-2012), Minister of State for Water (2000-2006), President of the African Minister s Council on Water (2004-2007), Chairperson of the Nile Council of Ministers (2007), Coordinator of the Global Women s Forum for Water and Sanitation (2005), Patron of the Global Rain Water Harvesting Network (2005) and is currently the Chairperson of the East African Community Sectoral Council on Tourism and Wildlife Management, as well as Vice President of the Lusaka Agreement Governing Council. Since her appointment Hon. Dr. Mutagamba has spearheaded the revision of the sector policies and plans to guide the development and promotion of the sector including the Wildlife Policy, National Tourism Policy, the Hotel and Tourism Training Institute Bill, Uganda Wildlife Training Institute Bill, Uganda Wildlife Education Centre Bill and the Tourism Master Plan.
5. Dr. Kunio Mikuriya Secretary General World Customs Organisation, Brussels Before taking up his position as Secretary General of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) on 1 January 2009, Kunio Mikuriya spent seven years as the Organisation s Deputy Secretary General. In this position he led efforts to coordinate the work of the WCO Secretariat with other international organisations such as the WTO to support the Doha Development Agenda trade negotiations, and the World Bank and other development banks to coordinate Customs reform projects, and with the private sector to develop Customs-Business Partnerships in support of transparency in trade. His current priority is securing and facilitating global trade through setting standards, sharing best practices, and providing assistance for capacity building in Customs. He has actively been championing the fight against corruption in Customs to showcase good governance in the public sector. Prior to joining the WCO, he worked for Japan's Ministry of Finance for 25 years. During his career with the Ministry, Kunio Mikuriya occupied a variety of senior posts, which have given him broad experience and knowledge in Customs, trade, development, budget, and financial policies. He served as Director of Enforcement where he led efforts to fight illicit trade, then as Director of Research and International Affairs paving the way for the conclusion of the first regional trade agreement for Japan, and then as a Counsellor in the Tariff and Customs Bureau. He also served as Director of Salaries and Allowances to coordinate remuneration levels for the entire government workforce, and as the Budget Controller for Foreign Affairs, Official Aid, International Trade and Industry, in the Budget Bureau. In addition, he spent time as a Counsellor at the Japanese Mission to the WTO in Geneva and participated in the GATT Uruguay Round trade negotiations. Kunio Mikuriya has a BA degree in law from the University of Tokyo (Japan) and a PhD in international relations from the University of Kent (United Kingdom). 6. Mr. John E. Scanlon (5min. video message) Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Geneva
7. Dr. Kaname Ikeda President Remote Sensing Technology Center (RESTEC), Tokyo Having majored Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Dr. Ikeda joined the Japanese Government Science and Technology Agency (STA) in 1968. Following this, he has served as Science Counsellor to the Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C. (1985-1988), for the Japanese government as Director for International Affairs at the STA, for Materials Standard at the MITI, and for Personnel Division at the STA (1988-1993), as Deputy Director-General for the International Trade Policy Bureau at MITI (1993-1995), and as Deputy Director-General for the Promotion Bureau of STA in 1995, where he engaged in reform of JST to increase capacity for science education, public awareness and utilization of intellectual properties. He has also fulfilled the functions of Director-General for Nuclear Safety at STA (1995-1997), Director-General for Research and Development at STA (1997-1999), Deputy Minister for Science and Technology (1999-2000), Executive Director of Japan s National Space Development Agency (2001-2003), and served a term as Ambassador to Japan for the Republic of Croatia (2003-2006). He was then nominated in 2006 to become Director-General for ITER International Fusion Energy Organisation in 2007, for which he moved to Cadarache in France to build the organisation in accordance with the ITER Treaty among EU, Japan, Russia, USA, China, Korea and India. He performed this function until 2010, building the ITER nuclear fusion plant by establishing the project baseline and bringing the plant construction to full swing. In 2011, he became the Executive Director and President of the Remote Sensing Technology Centre of Japan (RESTEC).
Round Table Discussion 1 Moderator Mr. Remi Chandran PhD Research Fellow United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo Researcher University of Twente For the past ten years, Remi has been working to build evidence-based policy-making with regard to enforcement of CITES convention through the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS), an initiative he developed while at UN University in Tokyo in 2005. He continues to coordinate the WEMS initiative as its work expands in East and Central Africa. Within the environmental policy framework, His research particularly looks into the role of evidence and science in decision making process within UN Multilateral Agreements. Mr. Chandran has more than 15 years of experience, working with Governments and United Nations organizations in the area of environmental governance issues and has managed several national and international development projects. He is also a recipient of UNU-IAS PhD fellowship (2012-2013), Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (2010-2013) and The Irish Government (ICOS) fellowship (1995-97). His work on WEMS initiative has been quoted by several media including Reuters, Kyodo news and Japan Times.
Panellists 1. Hon. Dr. Maria Mutagamba Minister of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities Republic of Uganda (full biography above) 2. Mrs. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema Deputy Director and O-i-C Division of Environmental Policy Implementation (DEPI) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi Elizabeth is the Deputy Director and O-i-C of the Division of Environmental Policy Implementation (DEPI), United Nations Environment Programme. She is responsible for conceptualising and managing UNEP s activities in two of its core thematic areas of focus; ecosystem management (and services) and conflicts and disasters. She also manages the adaptation component of UNEP s climate change agenda. She has about twenty years of experience working with the United Nations in different portfolios. She is a career diplomat, a principal environmental lawyer and legal counsel at UNEP with a particular focus on environmental policy implementation, international environmental law, compliance and enforcement of environmental conventions and international environmental negotiations. She holds an LLB Honours from the University of Dar-es-Salaam; LLM from the Law School at the Dalhousie University, Canada and Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Centre of Foreign Relations and Diplomacy in Dar-es-Salaam.
3. Dr. Ng S. T. Chong Founder and Director of Campus Computing Centre (C3) United Nations University, Tokyo Dr. Chong is the Director of Campus Computing Centre at United Nations University, where he passionately brings his computing skills and knowledge to research initiatives within and beyond the boundaries of data centre. He is the chief technology architect of WEMS (Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System) for Africa, providing the cloud computing blueprint for secure information sharing across borders, which won the support of the LATF and African countries where WEMS is currently deployed. He is a strong advocate of liberalising non-nominal wildlife crime data for policy and scientific analysis with the aim to inform best practice and provide practical recommendations. Before joining United Nations University, he was a lecturer at Florida State University, and previous to that, he held several ICT management, senior research and consulting positions in the US and Latin America. He has a wealth of experience in scientific applications development, spanning government and privately funded projects in expert systems, operations research, and urban transportation planning. Dr. Chong has received graduate degrees from the University of Tokyo in Engineering (Ph.D.) and from the University of New Mexico in Computer Science (MS). His research interests include global information system architectures, cloud computing, information security, big data analytics and data visualisation. 4. Prof. Dr. Robert Hoppe Professor of Policy and Knowledge at University of Twente, Netherlands Fellow Institute of Governance Studies (IGS) Fellow Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG) Fellow Science, Society, Technology and Culture (WMTC) Robert Hoppe is full professor of Policy and Knowledge at the Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies, School of Management and Governance, University of Twente, in the Netherlands. His current research interests focus on practices of deliberative governance in an institutional environment of representative democracy, policymaking and policy analysis in transformational societies and polities, and comparative science-policy advisory architectures. In 2010 he published The Governance of Problems. Puzzling, Powering, and Participation (Policy Press, Bristol) and co-edited (with Hal Colebatch and Mirko Noordegraaf) Working for Policy (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam). His most recent among numerous research articles deal with post-normal science (in Science, Technology and Human Values) and the role of international and national advisory institutes on global and national climate change policy (in WIREs Climate Change). Hoppe serves on the advisory boards of Policy Studies Journal, Critical Policy Studies, Jaarboek Kennis en Samenleving, and Beleidsonderzoek Online.
5. Mr. Vivek Menon Executive Director & CEO Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) Regional Director and Advisor, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), New Delhi Mr. Menon is a wildlife conservationist, environmental commentator, author and photographer with a passion for elephants. He has helped to found five environmental & conservation organisations in India. Winner of the 2001 Rufford Award for International Conservation for his work to save the Asian elephant, he is the Executive Director and CEO of the Wildlife Trust of India as well as Regional Director and Advisor to the International Fund for Animal Welfare. In an Honorary capacity, Menon is member of the Species Survival Commission of the IUCN, on the International Jury of the Future for Nature Awards in the Netherlands, an advisor to the Marjan Centre of Kings College in London, board member of Minding Animals International, and a faculty member of the Kerulos Centre, Oregon. In India, he is a member of the Advisory Council to the CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development, member of four State Advisory Boards for Wildlife, an Honorary Wildlife Warden of Delhi for the last eleven years, and a member of the Elephant Task Force of the Ministry of Environment and Forests. He has trained officers from over fifty countries in wildlife crime prevention and has attended CITES meetings for over twenty years as a member of the Indian delegation or as an observer. He is the author or editor of eight wildlife books, including the bestselling Field Guide to Mammals of India, scores of technical reports and more than 150 articles in various scientific and popular publications.
Round Table Discussion 2 Moderator Dr. Vesselin Popovski Senior Academic Programme Officer United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo Vesselin Popovski undertakes research and post-graduate teaching and supervision in the field of international relations, peace and security, international law, human rights, international criminal justice, and governance. He has published numerous books and articles in peer-reviewed journals. Popovski took part in two major international initiatives and coauthored their reports: (1) International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) and its 2001 report Responsibility to Protect that led the way to the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the norm Responsibility to Protect in 2005; and (2) Princeton Project on Universal Jurisdiction that developed and published Princeton Principles of Universal Jurisdiction (2001). He is currently a member of the International Working Group on Principles and Guidelines for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Persons Affected by Leprosy, created to develop a Plan of Action following General Assembly resolution A/RES/65/215 (2010). Before coming to UNU, Popovski worked as a Bulgarian diplomat, and a NATO Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Centre for European Studies, Exeter University, UK. In addition to Exeter, he taught full semester Masters courses in peace and security, international law and human rights at King s College, London; Centre for Study of Democracy, Westminster University; Huron University; and Russian State Humanitarian University. From 2002 to 2004, Popovski worked for the EU project Legal Protection of Individual Rights in Russia, training Russian lawyers to apply international human rights mechanisms.
Panellists 1. Mr. Ben Janse Van Rensburg Chief of Enforcement Support, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Secretariat, Geneva Before relocating to Geneva as Chief of Enforcement Support at the CITES Secretariat in December 2011, Ben served in the South African Police Service (SAPS) for 21 years. After being appointed as detective in 1997, Ben became the commander of a SAPS specialised investigation unit for 5 years, and worked at the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) in Pretoria for 9 years, where he established the Environmental Crime and Cultural Heritage Desk in 2004, serving as commander of this desk until November 2011. He also served as National Operational Commander on behalf of INTERPOL NCB Pretoria, with regard to several global and regional wildlife operations, and represented South Africa at various regional and international forums. His duty as Chief of Enforcement Support at the CITES Secretariat is to assist Parties to the Convention to combat illegal wildlife trade effectively by: - Directing and coordinating the anti-smuggling, anti-fraud and anti-organised crime programmes of the CITES Secretariat - Providing support and technical advice to the CITES Parties national, sub-regional, regional- and international law enforcement organisations in their enforcement of the Convention - Preparing and delivering specialised and general law enforcement training, and identifying Parties where illegal trade occurs at significant levels and bringing this to the attention of the Standing Committee and Conference of the Parties. He is also the Chair of the Senior Experts Group of the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC), a collaborative effort by the CITES Secretariat, ICPO- INTERPOL, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Bank and the World Customs Organization (WCO), to bring coordinated support to the national wildlife law enforcement agencies and to the sub-regional and regional networks that, on a daily basis, act in defence of natural resources.
2. Mr. Douglas Cress Programme Coordinator Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) UNEP/UNESCO, Nairobi Doug Cress is the programme coordinator for the Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP), a broad coalition of 95 nations, conservation organisations, research institutions, zoos, and United Nations agencies that aims to protect apes and their habitat in Africa and Asia. Cress oversees all aspects of GRASP, including partnership relations, fund-raising, project design, implementation and evaluation, communications, and public outreach. Cress also manages the GRASP secretariat, which is based at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi and is jointly hosted between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Prior to joining GRASP, Cress spent 10 years as the executive director of the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA), the network of primate rehabilitation centres across Africa, and served as a vice-president of the Orangutan Conservancy from 2007 to 2011. Cress was the director of the Great Ape Project from 2001-2004. Prior to working in conservation, Cress spent 20 years as an award-winning journalist with The Washington Post, Los Angeles Daily News, and Atlanta Constitution. 3. Mr. Jorge Rios Chief of Sustainable Livelihoods Unit and Coordinator of the Global Wildlife and Forest Crime Programme United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna
4. Ms. Ayako Tsuyada Senior Operational Support Analyst Environmental Security Sub-Directorate ICPO (INTERPOL) Ayako Tsuyada obtained her master degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Edinburgh. Having started her career with work on political analysis, ODA-related matters, and assessment of deployment of PKO missions within the Japanese Government, including Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cabinet Office. She later joined UNDP Cambodia as a programme specialist to set up the UN-REDD Programme. In July 2012, Ms Tsurada joined the INTERPOL Environmental Security Sub-Directorate as a senior operational support analyst to take part in the Biodiversity team, focusing on Project Predator, conservation of wild tigers and other Asian big cats. Her main role in the project is to coordinate law enforcement operations in Asia, analyse the results, and to deliver trainings. 5. Mr. Daniel Moell Environmental Programme Manager, World Customs Organisation (WCO) Daniel Moell joined the WCO Secretariat in July 2011. For more than 20 years, he has worked in various enforcement positions for the Swiss Federal Customs Administration. Before joining the WCO he spent two years in Germany as a liaison officer for the WCO Regional Intelligence Liaison Office for Western Europe and acting, as well, as the Swiss Customs Attaché. He currently lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. 6. Mr. Bonaventure Ebayi Director Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF) A Forestry Engineer and a Master s degree holder in Forest Protection and Ecology, Mr. Ebayi has worked in biodiversity conservation for over 30 years. His professional experience, before becoming director of the LATF, includes managing regional intergovernmental wild fauna & flora co-operative law enforcement affairs in Africa; forest, land and marine fisheries management and law enforcement in Congo; and professional trainings & practices in forestry engineering & wildlife resources management and protection in Russia. He has headed the Lusaka Agreement National Bureau for Congo, as well as the National Parks and Fauna Reserves Services. He has also served as a MIKE National Officer and as Bushmeat Crisis Officer for the Enforcement Bureau for Fishery & Natural Resources Protection and the National Division Research and Arts Promotion in Congo.
Round Table Discussion 3 Moderator Mr. Tetsuji Ida Senior Science Reporter Environment, Energy and Development Kyodo News, Science News Desk Born in Tokyo 1959, Mr. Tetsuji is a graduate of Tokyo University, where he studied sociology of science and technology. Since he was assigned as a staff writer of Kyodo News in 1983, he has covered environment and development issues from the Tsukuba Science City bureau and the science news desks in the Tokyo and Washington bureau. He has covered many international conferences on multilateral environmental agreements, including UNFCCC, CITES, CBD, Montreal Protocol, Ramsar Convention, WSSD in 2002 at Johannesburg, South Africa and Rio+20, Brazil in 2012. He has (co-)authored twelve books on global warming, fisheries resources toxic chemicals and natural resources management. Panellists 1. Ms. Marisa Aramaki Deputy Director Wildlife Division Nature Conservation Bureau, Ministry of Environment, Japan. Ms. Aramaki is in charge of national trade regulation of endangered species by the law for the conservation of endangered species of wild fauna and flora of Japan. Within the Ministry, she also works for CITES Scientific Authority about terrestrial animals of Japan. 2. Mr. Kenichi Kobayashi Deputy Director Trade Licensing for Wild Animal and Plants Office Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan Within METI, Mr. Kenichi Kobayashi works for the CITES Management Authority of Japan. 3. Mr. Hideto Watanabe Official, Global Environment Division International Cooperation Bureau, Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hideto Watanabe is in charge of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of the Government of Japan.
4. Ms. Dr. Ayako Toko Representative TRAFFIC East Asia Japan Dr. Ayako Toko is working at WWF Japan, as a representative of TRAFFIC East Asia Japan, a joint programme of WWF and IUCN that has several trade monitoring programmes and mainly works on Fishery, Medicinal plants, Timber and Wildlife trade. Holding a PhD in Natural Environmental Studies, and specialised in forestry, she started working in the conservation field ten years ago. She now engages in wildlife trade monitoring, national legislation reviewing, and capacity building for governmental officers in Southeast Asian countries. Her interests for conservation focus on participatory approaches as well as on institutional diversity; therefore she has been doing research on community-based natural resource management in several countries. 5. Mr. Masayuki Sakamoto Executive Director Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund (JTEF) Mr. Masayuki Sakamoto is a lawyer and has engaged in conservation work since 1993. Having participated in six meetings of the Conference of the Parties to CITES since 1994 (CoP 9 in Fort Lauderdale), he is now in the position of Executive Director of Japan Tiger and Elephant Fund and in charge of management of the organisation, planning and management of conservation programmes and researching policy and law related to conservation. The work of JTEF includes a joint conservation programme with the Wildlife Trust of India to prevent fragmentation of habitat for Asian elephants in Northeast India and tigers in Central India, with the Iriomote Island Cat programme to protect it from road killing and habitat fragmentation the island in Okinawa. Sakamoto is responsible for planning and management of these programmes. JTEF also tackles CITES issues, especially ivory trade matters.
Closing Ceremony Moderator Dr. Christopher Doll Research Fellow United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) Speakers Prof. Govindan Parayil Vice-Rector of the United Nations University, Tokyo Dr. Masaaki Yoneda Senior Advisor Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Tokyo The Hon. Mahmoud Hassan Mgimwa Deputy Minister Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism United Republic of Tanzania The Hon. Mahmoud Hassan Mgimwa has served the Small Industries Development Organisation (SIDO) of Tanzania as Chief Accountant (1990-1993), the Inland Business Plan as Director of Finance (1994-2000) and is also a Member of Parliament in Tanzania since 2010. Mrs. Elizabeth Maruma Mrema Deputy Director and O-i-C Division of Environmental Policy Implementation (DEPI), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi Mr. Ben Janse Van Rensburg Chief of Enforcement Support, Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Secretariat, Geneva
Mr. Vivek Menon Executive Director & CEO Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) Regional Director and Advisor, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), New Delhi Mr. Bonaventure Ebayi Director Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF)
Dignitaries Attending the Event Mr. Werner Balogh Programme Officer for Space Science and Technology United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Vienna Werner Balogh is the Programme Officer for Space Science and Technology in the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs which implements the United Nations Programme on Space Applications. Prior to joining the United Nations, Werner worked for the Austrian Space Agency and for the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). He holds degrees from the Vienna University of Technology, the International Space University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Mr. Leonard Peter Mayeta Private Secretary to the Minister Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, Tanzania Mr Mayeta has served the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism as Game Officer (2002-2010), as Senior Game Officer, as Budget Officer (2012-2013) and currently as Private Secretary to the Minister. Furthermore, he also worked with WWF TCO as Programme Technical Assistant (2010), M&E Specialist (2011), and as Deputy Programme Coordinator (2011-2012). Mr. Theotimus Rwegasira Acting Intelligence Officer Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF) Mr. Theotimus Rwegasira has been engaged in wildlife conservation and management as well as cooperative enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and biodiversity-related conventions for over 25 years. Currently, he is the Acting Intelligence Officer of the Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF), which is the Secretariat as well as the enforcement arm of the Lusaka Agreement, a regional multilateral environmental agreement that promotes Cooperative Law Enforcement on combating illegal trade in wild fauna and flora. Before his work at LATF, he worked in the Tanzania Wildlife Division, where he held various managerial positions, including being the focal person to the wildlife conservationrelated MEAs as well as being a National MIKE officer in Tanzania.
Mrs. Wato Adan Habiba Communication Assistant Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF) WEMS National Focal Persons Coordinator & Data Input Mrs. Wato Adan Habiba is the current Communication Assistant with the Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF). She deals with Wildlife Monitoring System (WEMS) data input and coordinates WEMS National Focal persons among others. Before joining LATF in March 2001, Habiba dealt with air navigation services as Aeronautical Communication Officer with former Directorate of Civil Aviation currently known as Kenya Civil Aviation Authority. Mr. Trevor Silwamba Chilanga Ranger Operations Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) Mr. Silwamba joined Zambia Wildlife Authority in 2004 as a Wildlife Police Officer in South Luangwa National Park, where his main duties were to conduct patrols and investigations, and attending to Human Wildlife Conflict matters. In 2006, he transferred to the Research Unit and to ZAWA headquarters as a Senior Wildlife Police Officer in 2008, where his main roles in the CITES unit consisted of receiving ivory from the field and updating the country s Ivory stock pile database and marking all ivory received according to the stipulated CITES procedure. In 2011, he joined the Rangers Operations at Lusaka National Park, before moving on to Chilanga for a similar role in 2013. His tasks consist of managing the country s law enforcement database, co-ordinating and planning law enforcement operations for his subordinate officers, reporting all field operations related matters to the Head Operations and CITES, and carrying out law enforcement operations in various National Parks and Game Ranches around the country, in collaboration with the Park Rangers in the field, Honorary Wildlife Police Officers and the Private Wildlife Estate Owners. All in all, he has a passion for wildlife conservation: I love what I do because I feel conservation is not a job but a calling.
Mr. Migwi David Karanja Chief Information Officer Security Data, Research and Development Kenya Wildlife Service Mr Karanja has been working with Kenya Wildlife Service since 2001, charged with the conservation and management of wildlife in Kenya. He has worked in park management but a larger part of his career has been in wildlife law enforcement as an Intelligence Officer having served as a Crime Analyst, Security Research Analyst and currently the Chief Information Officer in Security Data, Research and Development Section. One of his main responsibilities includes management of the Security Database and provision of security information to guide wildlife law enforcement. He is one of Kenya s Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) focal persons, having attended the initial training in May 2011, in Nairobi. He has attended training courses such as Criminal Intelligence Analysis, Wildlife Investigations, Wildlife Law Enforcement and Law Enforcement Executive Development Programme. Currently, he is undertaking a Masters degree in Environmental Studies. Mr. Ibrahim Kassim Athman Prosecution Officer Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) Recruited by Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) in 2001, Ibrahim has worked in various departments there. Experienced in detecting and combating wildlife crimes in the country, he is currently attached to the Prosecution Department as a Prosecution Officer assisting in Wildlife Prosecution in liaison with other National/International Agencies, such as the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Directorate of Criminal Investigations-Kenya, Kenya Police, Judiciary, Lusaka Agreement Task Force, and Interpol. He is knowledgeable on the Wildlife and Law enforcement field, and works with vigour and passion towards protecting wildlife as an inter generational world heritage.