https://blogarchiv.tropentag.de/taxonomy/term/252/0 en https://blogarchiv.tropentag.de/node/144 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tropentag/5822986595/" title="Tewolde_Berhan_Gebre_Egziabher by tropentag, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5152/5822986595_01e5a72a98_o.jpg" width="200" height="137" alt="Tewolde_Berhan_Gebre_Egziabher" /></a> Dr. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher is Director General of the <a href="http://www.epa.gov.et/default.aspx">Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority</a> and Councillor at the <a href="http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/index.php?id=1">World Future Council</a>. He received his PhD in 1969 and is Ethiopia’s first plant ecologist. Most of his working life has been in academia, and he has been the Dean of Science at <a href="http://www.aau.edu.et/">Addis Ababa University</a> and President of <a href="http://www.uoa.edu.er/">Asmara University</a>. He also served as Director of the <a href="http://sirius-c.ncat.edu/AAU-Network/news/link/conservation.html">Ethiopian Conservation Strategy</a> Secretariat. During the 1990s Dr. Egziabher put much of his energy into negotiations at the various biodiversity-related fora, especially the <a href="http://www.cbd.int/">Convention on Biological Diversity</a> (CBD) and the <a href="http://www.fao.org/">FAO</a>. During this time, he built up a strong group of well-prepared African negotiators who began to take the lead in the <a href="http://www.g77.org/">G77</a> and China Group. Africa came out with united, progressive positions such as no patents on living materials and the recognition of community rights. <p><a href="https://blogarchiv.tropentag.de/node/144" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://blogarchiv.tropentag.de/node/144#comments Biodiversity Africa human rights intellectual property rights keynote speakers Sun, 12 Jun 2011 04:00:33 +0000 De-Registered User 144 at https://blogarchiv.tropentag.de