Bonn,
2 August 2011 - Marco Barbieri, who took up the
post of Acting Executive Secretary of the UNEP/AEWA Secretariat
on 2 May 2011, has nearly 20 years
of working experience with the UN and UNEP. He joined
the UNEP/ CMS Secretariat in September 2000 as Scientific
Officer. In that capacity, he facilitated the work of
the CMS Scientific Council, notably by organizing and
servicing six meetings of that body, as well as several
other meetings and workshops. In June 2008, he became
CMS Agreements Officer, mainly in charge of negotiating
new agreements and memoranda of understanding (MoUs)
under CMS and the servicing of several MoUs already in
place. He also served as ASCOBANS Senior Advisor between
2007 and 2010.

Before joining the CMS family, Mr. Barbieri worked as
Programme Officer of the Mediterranean Action Plan of UNEP
between 1992 and 2000, where one of his main functions
was to lead the development of the protocol concerning
Specially Protected Areas and Biological Diversity in the
Mediterranean.

Mr. Barbieri is a qualified conservation biologist and
has acquired an extensive knowledge and understanding of
multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and the UN
system in particular, over the years, including institutional
and
administrative aspects. He is proficient in English and
French, and also has a good working knowledge of Spanish.