Meriem Bouamrane is an environmental economist, Chief of Section on research and policy on biodiversity in the Division
of Ecological and Earth Sciences, Man and the Biosphere programme. 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. She is a member of the PECS (Programme on Ecosystem change and Society) Scientific Committee, sponsored by UNESCO and ICSU and hosted by the Stockholm Resilience Centre and focal point for IPBES and biodiversity within UNESCO.
