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Dr. Katharina Kummer Peiry appointed Executive Secretary of the Basel Convention on Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal

The Basel Convention is the key global treaty addressing international transfer and environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes world-wide. Nominated by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in June 2007 to head the Convention’s Geneva-based Secretariat, Katharina Kummer Peiry has taken up her new functions on 1st September 2007.

Consequently, Kummer EcoConsult ceased to be operational as of that date.

 UNEP PRESS RELEASE

SWISSINFO PORTRAIT  (German)