Experts nominated by the Parties
Australia
Mr. Christopher Lee-Steere
Consultant
Australian Environment Agency
4 Rawson Street
Deakin ACT 2600
Australia
Tel.: +61 (2) 6273 7777
E-mail: cleestee@bigpond.net.au
Area of expertise: Environmental fate, ecotoxicity and risk assessment
Mr. Les Philip Davies
Manager, Chemical Review & Adverse Experience Reporting Program
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
PO Box 6182
Kingston ACT 2604
Australia
Tel.: +61 (2) 6210 4765
Fax: +61 (2) 6210 4776
E-mail: les.davies@apvma.gov.au
Area of expertise: Toxicology, health risk assessment
Mr. Salim Mazouz
Director
Environmental Economics Unit
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia
Tel.: +61 (2) 6274 1968
Fax: +61 (2) 6274 1322
E-mail: salim.mazouz@deh.gov.au
Area of expertise: Socio-economic analysis
Belarus
Mr. Sergey Vitaljevich Kakareka
Head
Laboratory of Transboundary Pollution and Climate
Institute of Natural Resources Management
220114 Minsk
Skoriny 10
Belarus
Tel.: +375 (17) 266 34 27
Fax: +375 (17) 266 34 27
E-mail: sk001@yandex.ru
Area of expertise: Environmental chemistry, pollution monitoring and control, unintentional releases of POPs
Mr. Siarhey Safonov
Leading Specialist
Inspectorate for State Waste Management
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection
10 Kollektornaya St.
220 048 Minsk
Belarus
Tel.: +375 (17) 200 55 71
Fax: +375 (17) 200 55 71
E-mail: waste@minpriroda.by
Area of expertise: Analytical chemistry, toxicology, waste treatment
Mr. Vadim Gulin
Head of Laboratory Department
Republican Centre of Hygiene and Epidemiology
Quality Manager of Laboratory Department
Byelorussian Medical Institute
10 Kazintsa St.
220 099 Minsk
Belarus
Tel.: +375 (17) 207 55 15
Fax: +375 (17) 212 48 04
E-mail: lst@rcheph.by
Area of expertise: Analytical chemistry, hygiene and epidemiology
Ms. Irina Zastenskaya
Deputy Director
Republican Scientific Practical Center of Hygiene
Ministry of Health
8 Akademicheskaya St.
220 012 Minsk
Belarus
Tel.: +375 (17) 232 50 15 / (+375 17) 284 1370
Fax: +375 (17) 284 03 45 / (+375 17) 263 8640
E-mail: rspch@rspch.by / zastenskaya@hotmail.com
Area of expertise: Public and environmental health, chemicals safety
Ms. Natalia Swiridovich
Chief Specialist
Monitoring and Organization of Analytical Control Department
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection
10 Kollektornaya St.
220 048 Minsk
Belarus
Tel.: +375 (17) 226 59 53
Fax: +375 (17) 200 47 76
E-mail: monitoring@minpriroda.by
Area of expertise: Monitoring
Ms. Tamara Kukharchik
Senior Research Officer
Institute for Problematic Use of Natural Resources and Ecology
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
10 Staroborisovsky Trakt
220 114 Minsk
Belarus
Tel.: +375 (17) 290 34 27
Fax: +375 (17) 264 24 13
E-mail: kukharchyk@ns.ecology.ac.by
Area of expertise: Sources of pollution, geography, environment protection, use of natural resources
Canada
* Mr. Gregg T. Tomy
Section Head
Arctic Aquatic Research Division
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Winnipeg Manitoba R3T 2N6
Canada
Tel.: +1 (204) 983 5167
Fax: +1 (204) 984 2403
E-mail: gregg.tomy@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Area of expertise: Environmental fate, analytical chemistry, ecotoxicology, esp. HBCDD and SCCPs
Chile
Mr. Alex Kurt Berg Gebert
Executive Director
Technological Development Unit
Universidad de Concepción
Las Encinas 56
Sector Maule, Coronel
Concepción
Chile
Tel.: +56 (41) 747 431
Fax: +56 (41) 751 233
E-mail: aberg@udt.cl
Area of expertise: Environmental chemistry
Czech Republic
Ms. Milena Černá
Professor
Faculty of Medicine
Charles University
Ruska 87
101 00 Prague 10
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 267082378
Fax: +420 267082378
E-mail: milena.cerna@lf3.cuni.cz
Area of expertise: Toxicology, human monitoring, exposure assessment, health risk assessment
Ms. Jana Klánová
Associate professor
Research Centre for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology (RECETOX)
Masaryk University
Kamenice 126/3
62500 Brno
Czech Republic
Tel.: +420 (549) 495 149
Fax: +420 (549) 492 840
E-mail: klanova@recetox.muni.cz
Area of expertise: Environmental analysis and monitoring of POPs, their fate and abiotic transformation
Egypt
* Mr. Salah A. Soliman
Professor of Pesticides Chemistry and Toxicology
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology
Faculty of Agriculture
Alexandria University
El-Shatby
Alexandria 21545
Egypt
Tel.: +20 3 593 3480
Cellphone: +20 10 177 6987
Fax: +20 3 482 0470 or +20 35922780
Area of expertise: Pesticides chemistry, toxicology, and regulation
Germany
Mr. Michael Herrmann
Federal Institute of Risk Assesment
Thielallee 92
14195 Berlin
Germany
Tel.: +49 (30) 84124497
Fax: +49 (30) 84123008
E-mail: michael.herrmann@bfr.bund.de
Area of expertise: Environmental risk assessment, chemical safety, evaluation of POPs
Japan
* Mr. Akihiro Tokai
Professor
Division of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering
Osaka University
1-1 Yamadaoka, Suita
Osaka 565-0871
Japan
Tel.: +81 (6) 6879 7676
Fax: +81 (6) 6879 7676
E-mail: tokai@see.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
Area of expertise: Risk assessment/management, exposure modeling, life cycle assessment
* Mr. Shinsuke Tanabe
Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
Centre for Marine Environmental Studies (CMES)
Ehime University
Bunkyo-cho 2-5
Matsuyama 790-8577
Japan
Tel.: +81 (8) 9927 8171
Fax: +81 (8) 9927 8171
E-mail: shinsuke@agr.ehime-u.ac.jp
Area of expertise: Environmental chemistry and ecotoxicology, monitoring
Mali
* Mr. Gaoussou Kanoute
Professor
Faculté de Médecine Pharmacie et Odontostomatologie
Head of Department of Pharmaceuticals Sciences
and for Chemicals
BP. 1805
Bamako
Mali
Tel.: +223 20 22 52 77
Fax: +223 20 22 96 58
E-mail: pgkanoute@yahoo.fr / koutoubou@gmail.com
Area of expertise: Pharmacology, human medicine, analytical chemistry, electrochemistry
* Mr. Oumar Diaouré Cisse
Point Focal SAICM
Ministère de l’Environnement et de l’Assainissement
Direction Nationale Assainissement
DNACPN, BPE 3114
Bamako
Mali
Tel.: +223 20 29 24 10
Fax: +223 20 29 50 90
E-mail: cdiaoure@yahoo.fr
Area of expertise: Chemical engineering, environmental chemistry
Mr. Mamoudou Cisse
Ingénieur Chimiste
Direction Nationale de l’Assainissement du Contrôle de la Pollution et des Nuisances
Mali
Tel.: +223 (229) 24 10
Fax: +223 (229) 50 90
E-mail: mamd1ciss@yahoo.fr
Area of expertise: Chemical engineering, environmental chemistry
Mauritius
Mr. Nee Sun Choong Kwet Yive
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Mauritius
Réduit
Mauritius
Tel.: +230 4037504
Fax: +230 4656928
E-mail: robert@uom.ac.mu / robsun10@yahoo.com
Area of expertise: Organic and inorganic pollutants
* Mr. Sanjeev K. Sobhee
Professor of Economics
University of Mauritius
Mauritius
Tel.: +230 4037400
Fax: +230 4656184
E-mail: sksobhee@uom.ac.mu
Area of expertise: Economics, health economics, development studies
Mexico
Ms. Ana Patricia Martínez Bolívar
Director of Research in Air Quality Monitoring and in the Analytical
Characterization of Pollutants of the General Direction of the National
Center for Environmental Research and Training, National Institute of
Ecology
Boulevard El Pípila No.1
Col. Lomas de Tecamachalco
Naucalpan de Juárez
C.P. 53950 Edo. de México
Mexico
Tel.: +52 (55) 5294 25 85 / +52 (55) 5294 22 26
Fax: +52 (55) 5294 22 26
E-mail: mabaorta@prodigy.net.mx / abolivar@ine.gob.mx
Area of expertise: Atmospheric monitoring and assessment
Nepal
* Mr. Bhupendra Devkota
Founder Pricipal
College of Applied Sciences (CAS)
Tribhuvan University
P.O. Box 9303
Kathmandu
Nepal
Tel.: +977 (1) 442 6457
Fax: +977 985 100 3473
E-mail: devkotajb@gmail.com / bhupendra.devkota@gmail.com
Area of expertise: Pesticides, heavy metals toxicology, ecotoxicology
* Ms. Sabitri Baral
Plant Protection Officer
Pesticide Registration and Management Division
Hariharbhawan Lalitpur
Nepal
Tel.: +977 (1) 5010111
Fax: +977 (1) 5541604
E-mail: pesticide@wlink.com.np / barals07@yahoo.com
Area of expertise: Agriculture, plant protection, pesticides
* Mr. Sahadev Prasad Humagain
Plant Protection Officer
Plant Protection Directorate
Department of Agriculture
Jutapani - 5
Chitawan
Nepal
Tel.: +977 (1) 5221597
Fax: +977 (1) 5339376
E-mail: sphumagain2004@yahoo.com / ppd@ipmnet.wlink.com.np
Area of expertise: Agriculture, plant protection, pesticides
* Mr. Dhruba Narayan Manandhar
16/470, Thamel , Galkopakha
Ward 29
Kathmandu
Nepal
Tel.: +977 4429604
Area of expertise: Agriculture, plant protection, pesticides
* Mr. Suroj Pokhrel
Plant Protection Directorate
Chhoprak - 7
Gorkha
Nepal
Tel.: +977 (1) 5521597
Fax: +977 (1) 5539376
E-mail: surojpokhrel@yahoo.com
Area of expertise: Agriculture, plant protection, pesticides
*Mr. Bhakta Raj Palikhe
Senior Plant Protection Officer, Sericulture Dev. Programme
Directorate of Industrial Entomology Development
Department of Agriculture
Lazimpat, G.P.O Box 1818
Kathmandu
Nepal
Tel.: +977 (1) 4428779
E-mail: bnmp@wlink.com.np / brpalikhe@gmail.com
Area of expertise: Chemical pesticides, pesticide act and rules, entomology,
pesticide management agriculture, plant protection, biopesticides
Philippines
Ms. Irma Makalinao
Professor
College of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of the Philippines
3rd Floor Salcedo Hall
547 Pedro Gil St. Ermita
1000 Manila
Philippines
Tel.: +63 (2) 521 8251 / +63 25264248
Fax: +63 (2) 521 8251
E-mail: docirmam@yahoo.com / irmakalinao@gmail.com
Area of expertise: Human health, toxicology, environmental health, pharmacology
Mr. Romeo F. Quijano
President
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) - Philippines
International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN)
L2B30 Salome Tan St.
BF Executive Village
1740 Las Pinas City
Philippines
Tel.: +63 (2) 8050585
Fax: +63 (2) 5218251
E-mail: romytuij@yahoo.com / sampyq@excite.com
Area of expertise: Toxicology, pharmacology
Ms. Susan May F. Calumpang
Director
National Crop Protection Centre
University of the Philippines
Los Banos
Laguna
Philippines
Tel.: +63 (2) 536 52 70
Area of expertise: Risk assessment, environmental impact assessment of pesticides
Ms. Evangeline C. Santiago
Head
Research and Analytical Service Laboratory
Natural Sciences Research Institute
University of Philippines
Diliman Quezon City, 1101
Philippines
Tel.: +63 (2) 920 77 31
Fax: +63 (2) 928 68 68
E-mail: ecs@nsri.upd.edu.ph / vangiecs@yahoo.com
Area of expertise: Chemical assessment and management, environmental monitoring
Qatar
Mr. Essa Mohammad al-Mohannadi
Chemical Engineer
General Secretariat
Supreme Council of Environment
P.O. Box 7634
Doha
Qatar
Tel.: +974 4437171 Ext. 231 / +974 5530889
E-mail: emmohannadi@qatar.env.org.qa
Area of expertise: Chemical engineering
Ms. Nouf Abdulla al-Sulaiti
Ministry of Environment
P.O. Box 7634
Doha
Qatar
Tel.: (+974) 420 7006
Fax: (+974) 420 7000
E-mail: nasulaiti@moe.gov.qa / nouf100001@yahoo.com
Area of expertise: Environmental chemistry
Rwanda
Mr. Aloys Kamatari
Expert Consultant National
Ministère des Terres, de l’Environnement, des Forêts, de l’Eau et des Mines
BP 3502
Kigali
Rwanda
Tel.: +250 (58) 5398
Fax: +250 (58) 2629
E-mail: akamatari@hotmail.com / aloys.kamatari@gmail.com
Area of expertise: Ecotoxicology
Ms. Chantal I. Murenzi
Tutorial Assistant
Kigali Institute of Science and Technology
P.O. Box 622
Kigali
Rwanda
Tel.: +250 (847) 0562
E-mail: cmurenzi@yahoo.com
Area of expertise: Organic geochemistry, pharmacy
Ms. Coletha Uwineza Ruhamya
Head of Department
Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Technology
Kigali Institute of Science and Technology
P.O. Box 3900
Kigali
Rwanda
Tel.: +250 08564149
Fax: +250 571925
E-mail: coletharuhamya@yahoo.co.uk
Area of expertise: Environmental, civil engineering
Sweden
Mr. Lars B. Drake
Swedish Chemicals Agency
Swedish Chemicals Inspectorate
Box 2, SE-172 13
Sundbyberg
Sweden
Tel.: +46 (8) 519411
Fax: +46 (8) 73576
E-mail: Lars.Drake@kemi.se
Area of expertise: Socio-economic analysis
Viet Nam
Mr. Do Thanh Bai
Director
Center for Environmental Protection and Chemical Safety
Ministry of Industry
2 Pham Ngu Lao street
Hanoi
Viet Nam
Tel.: +84 47642154
Fax: +84 48372303
E-mail: baidothanh@fpt.vn
Area of expertise: Environmental engineering
Ms. Kim Chi Dang
Deputy Director
Institute for Environmental Science and Technology
Hanoi University of Technology
Viet Nam
Area of expertise: Environmental chemistry and toxicology, monitoring and pollution control
Experts invited by the Committee
China
Ms. Xaioling Yang
Director
Office of Stockholm Convention Implementation
Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP)
115 Xizhimennei Nanxiaojie
Haidian District
Beijing 100035
China
Tel.: +86 (10) 8228966
E-mail: yang.xiaoling@mepfeco.org.cn
Area of expertise: Environmental economics
Denmark
* Mr. Allan Astrup Jensen
Technical Vice President
Secretariat for Quality Management and Metrology
FORCE Technology, Brøndby
Park Allé 345
2605 Brøndby
Denmark
Tel.: +45 43 26 70 81
Fax: +45 43 26 70 11
E-mail: aaj@force.dk
Area of expertise: Environmental toxicology and chemistry, product life cycle management, risk assessment, air pollution
Germany
* Mr. Rolf Altenburger
Head
Department Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstrasse 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany
Tel.: +49 (341) 235 1522 / +49 (341) 235 1262
Fax: +49 (341) 235 4201 / +49 (341) 235 1785
E-mail: rolf.altenburger@ufz.de
Area of expertise: Ecotoxicology, toxic interactions
Italy
* Mr. Marco Vighi
University Professor
University of Milano Bicocca
Piazza della Scienza 1
1-20126 Milan
Italy
Tel.: +39 (02) 644 827 41
Fax: +39 (02) 644 827 95
E-mail: marco.vighi@unimib.it
Area of expertise: Ecotoxicology, toxic interactions
South Africa
Ms. Andrea Rother
Senior Researcher and Programme Leader – Health Risk Managment
Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Research School of Public Health and Family Medicine
Univeristy of Cape Town
Anzio Rd.
7925 Observatory
South Africa
Tel.: +27 (21) 406 6721
Fax: +27 (21) 406 6163
E-mail: andrea.rother@uct.ac.za
Area of expertise: socio-economic analysis, risk management, risk communication, risk impact assessment, environmental/occupational health
Sweden
* Mr. Michael McLachlan
Professor
Laboratory for Analytic Environmental Chemistry
ITM Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel.: +46 (8) 6747228
Fax: +46 (8) 6747637
E-mail: michael.mclachlan@itm.su.se
Area of expertise: Environmental fate, bioaccumulation, monitoring
* Mr. Stefan Posner
Senior Researcher
Swerea IVF AB
P.O. Box 104
SE-431 22 Mölndal
Sweden
Tel.: +46 (31) 706 63 07
Fax: +46 (31) 706 63 63
E-mail: stefan.posner@swerea.se
Area of expertise: Chemicals in articles, alternatives, flame retardants, PFOS
Switzerland
Mr. Martin Scheringer
Scientist
Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering
ETH Zurich
Wolfgang-Pauli Str. 10
CH-8093 Zurich
Switzerland
Tel.: +41 44 632 3062
Fax: +41 44 632 1189
E-mail: scheringer@chem.ethz.ch
Area of expertise: Environmental fate analysis, environmental chemistry
United States of America
* Mr. Derek Muir
Past-President
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
1010 North 12th Avenue
Pensacola, FL 32501-3370
United States of America
Tel.: +1 (905) 319 6921
E-mail: derek.muir@ec.gc.ca
Area of expertise: Environmental chemistry and toxicology