members - Rotterdam Convention

Membership of the intersessional working group on the process of
listing chemicals in Annex III to the Rotterdam Convention
Parties
 Ms. Valeria M Gonzalez Posse, Ministro, Dirección General de Asuntos Ambientales, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
y Culto, Argentina
 Ms. Cristina Briel, Consejero, Dirección General de Asuntos Ambientales, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto,
Argentina
 Dr. Sara Broomhall, Director, Chemical Management and Standards Section, Department of the Environment, Australia
 Mr. Andrew McNee, Assistant Secretary , Chemicals and Waste Branch / Environment Standards Division, Department of
the Environment, Australia
 Ms. Anja Bartels, Institute for Plant Protection Product Evaluation and Authorization, Department for Ecotoxicology,
Efficiency and Integrative Pest Management, Agency for Health and Food Safety, Austria
 Ms. Mara Curaba, Federal Public Service Health, food Chain Safety and Environment, DG 5 Risk Management Desk,
Eurostation, Belgium
 Mr. Luiz De Andrade Filho, Third Secretary, Division of Climate, Ozone and Chemical Safety, Ministry of External
Relations, Brazil
 Ms. Leticia Reis de Carvalho, Director, Secretary of Climate Change and Environmental Quality / Department of the
Environment Quality, Ministry of Environment, Brazil
 Mr. Vinícius Fox Drummond Cançado Trindade, General Coordinator for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, Brazil
 Mr. Pedro Tiê Candido Souza, Secretario de Coordinación General de Desarrollo Sostenible, Ministerio de Relaciones
Exteriores, Brazil
 Ms. Marília Passos Torres de Almeida, Environmental Analyst, Department of the Environmental Quality, Ministry of
Environment, Brazil
 Mr. Jeffery Goodman, Policy Advisor, Environment Canada, Canada
 Mr. Andrew Beyak, Senior Re-Evaluation Coordinator, Health Canada, Pest Management Regulatory Agency, Canada
 Ms. Xiaojun Wang, Deputy Director, International Cooperation Division, Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals,
Ministry of Agriculture Building, China
 Ms. Angela Patricia Rivera Galvis, Segundo Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores, Dirección de Asuntos Económicos,
Sociales y Ambientales, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Colombia
 Mr. Julio C Garza Salermo, Jefe de Departamento de Salvaguardia, Centro Nacional de Seguridad Química, Cuba
 Mr. Björn Hansen, Head of Delegation, Environment Directorate General, European Commission, Belgium
 Mr. Juergen Helbig, Police Officer, DG Environment, European Commission, Belgium
 Ms. Irma Tskvitinidze, Deputy Head of Pesticides and Agro-Chemicals, Phytosanitary Department, LEPL National Food
Agency, Georgia
 Ms. Jutta Emig, Head of Division IG II 3, International Chemical Safety, Sustainable Chemistry, Federal Ministry for the
Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Germany
 Dr. Sam Adu-Kumi, Director, Chemicals Control and Management Centre, Environmental Protection Agency, Ghana
 Mr. Joseph C Edmund, Deputy Director, Chemicals Control and Management Centre, Environmental Protection Agency,
Ghana
 Mr. Manoj Kumar Gangeya, Director, Hazardous Substances Management Division, Ministry of Environment, Forest and
Climate Change, India
 Mr. Mohammad Hematyar, National Authority of Chemical Conventions, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iran
 Mr. Takuya Igarashi, Japan
 Ms. Reiko Eda, Japan
 Mr. Shuji Tamura, Director for Chemical Management Policy, Chemical Management Policy Division, Manufacturing
Industries, Bureau Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
 Ms. Mari Sakaida, Assistant Director for Chemical Management, Policy Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Industry, Japan
 Ms. Mayuka Ishida, Global Environment Division, International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan
 Mr. Mohammed Oglah Hussein Khashashneh, Director, Hazardous Substances and Waste Management Directorate,
Ministry of Environment, Jordan
 Mr. Peter Opiyo, Chief Executive / Secretary, Pest Control Products Board, Kenya
 Ms. Zhamalkan Kadoeva, Chief Specialist, Department of State Ecological Inspection, State Agency on Environmental
Protection and Forestry, Kyrgyzstan
 Ms. Adilya Baratova, Department of International Cooperation, State Agency on Environmental Protection and Forestry,
Kyrgyzstan
 Ms. Silvija Nora Kalnins, Senior Expert, Department of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Environmental Protection
and Regional Development, Latvia
 Ms. Lalitha Jaya George, Assistant Director, Approval Unit, Pesticides Control Division, Department of Agriculture,
Malaysia
 Mr. Arturo Gavilán García, Director de Investigación para el Manejo Sustentable de Sustancias Químicas, Productos y
Residuos, Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático, Mexico
 Dr. Oludayo Olusegun Dada, Director, Department of Pollution Control and Environmental Health, Federal Ministry of
Environment, Nigeria
 Ms. Christina Charlotte Tolfsen, Senior Adviser, Section for Biocides and Global Chemical Conventions, Environment
Agency, Norway
 Ms. Silvia Susana Weyer De Suss, Ingeniera Agronóma, Jefa Dpt Evaluación y Mitigación de Riesgos, Dirección de
Agroquímicos, Servicio Nacional de Calidad y Sanidad Vegetal y de Semillas, Paraguay
 Ms. Alba Luz Maria Domínguez Arbués, Lic. En Química, Dirección de Agroquímicos, Servicio Nacional de Calidad y
Sanidad Vegetal y de Semillas, Paraguay
 Ms. Yesenia Huerta Rojas, Dirección de Ecología de Protección del Ambiente de la Dirección General de Salud Ambiental,
Ministerio de Salud, Peru
 Ms. Magdalena Frydrych, Chief Specialist, Department of Risk Assessment, Bureau for Chemical Substances, Poland
 Mr. Andrey Guskov, Deputy Chief, Department Chief of Sanitary Inspection, Federal Service for Surveillance on consumer
Rights Protection and Human Well-being, Russia
 Ms. Natalia Kostenko, Deputy Director, Department of Health Protection and Sanitary and Epidemiologic Wellbeing,
Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Russia
 Ms. Olga Mukhina, Consultant, Scientific Support and International Activities Division, Federal Service for Consumer
Rights, Protection and Human Wellbeing, Russia
 Ms. Khalidya Khamidulina, Director, Russian Register of Potentially Hazardous Chemical and Biological Substances,
Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights and Human Well-being, Russia
 Mr. Evgeny Kovalevskiy, Doctor, Scientific Research Institute of Labour Medicine, Russia
 Mr. Valery Rakitskiy, Acting Director, Federal Scientific Centre for Hygiene, Russia
 Mr. Eduard Salahov, Deputy of Director, Department of International Cooperation and Public Relations, Ministry of
Health, Russia
 Mr. Nkoane Madumise, Assistant Director Chemicals Management, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa
 Mr. Molaudi Gordon Khauoe, Policy Analyst, International Chemicals and Waste Cooperation, Department of
Environmental Affairs, South Africa
 Mr. Khidir Gibril Musa Edres, Director General, Plant Protection Directorate, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Sudan
 Mr. Felix Wertli, Head of Section, Global Affairs Section, International Affairs Division, Federal Office for the
Environment, Switzerland
 Mr. Michel Tschirren, Global Affairs Section, International Affairs Division, Federal Office for the Environment,
Switzerland
 Mr. Oleksandr Kravchuk, Deputy Director, Ministry of Health / Scientific Centre of Preventive Toxicology, Chemical and
Food Safety, Ministry of Public Health, Ukraine
 Mr. Richard Vincent, Head of International Chemicals and Nanotechnologies, EU Environment, Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom
 Mr. David Kapindula, Principal Inspector, Inspectorate, Environmental Management Agency, Zambia
Non-Parties
 Mr. Adel Shafei Mohamed Osman, General Director, Hazardous Chemicals and Waste Department, Ministry of
Environment, Egypt
 Ms. Katherine P Weber, Office of Environmental Quality and Transboundary Issues, Bureau of Oceans and International
Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Department of State, United States of America
 Ms. Amber Aranda, Attorney, Office of General Counsel, Environmental Protection Agency, United States of America
 Ms. Karissa Taylor Kovner, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Assistant Administrator, Environmental Protection
Agency, United States of America
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Mr. Nurlan Omarov, Confederation of Employers of Kazakhstan (CEK)
Mr. Roland Dieterle, CropLife International
Mr. Mark Trewhitt, CropLife International
Mr. Bernhard Johnen, CropLife International
Mr. Adilson Conceiçao Santana, Federação Internacional dos Trabalhadores do Amianto Crisotila (FITAC)
Mr. Dmitrii Selyanin, International Alliance of Trade Union Organizations “Chrysotile”
Mr. Emiliano Alonso, International Chrysotile Association
Mr. Clément Godbout, International Chrysotile Association
Mr. Jean-Marc Leblond; International Chrysotile Association
Mr. Marcondes Braga De Moraes, Instituto Brasileiro do Crisotila (IBC)
Mr. Antonio Galván Carriles, Instituto Mexicano de Fibroindustria A.C.
Mr. Joseph DiGangi, International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN)
Ms. Meriel Watts, Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP)
Ms. Alexandra Caterbow, Rotterdam Convention Alliance (ROCA)
Mr. Emilio Ferreira Junior, Federação dos Trabalhadores da Construção de São Paulo (FETICOM)
Dr. G Vivekanand, The Asbestos Cement Products Manufacturers’ Association
Dr. Vivek Chandra Rao Sripalle, The Asbestos Cement Products Manufacturers’ Association
Mr. Arun Kumar Saraf, The Asbestos Cement Products Manufacturers’ Association
Mr. Ruslan Koval, Ukrainian Chrysotile Corporation
Mr. Shame Chibvongodze, Zimbabwe National Chrysotile Taskforce
Mr. Humphrey Mapuranga, Zimbabwe National Chrysotile Taskforce