Meriem Bouamrane

Environmental economist, Chief of Section on research and policy on biodiversity - Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, Man and the Biosphere programme, UNESCO

Meriem Bouamrane is an environmental economist, Chief of Section Ecology and Biodiversity in the Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme. She is UNESCO Biodiversity focal point and oversees cooperation with IPBES, CBD  and Future Earth within UNESCO.  She is responsible for research and training programmes on access and use of biodiversity, participatory approaches and concertation, using biosphere reserves as research and demonstration sites. She has organized and conducted several workshops using different participatory techniques and tools in biosphere reserves and is involved in several research programmes on resilience of socio-ecological systems and participatory methodology.  She is coordinator of the EuroMAB Network, the oldest and largest network of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.