Shamila Nair-Bedouelle
Shamila Nair-Bedouelle is the assistant director-general for natural sciences at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. She previously served as director of the OzonAction programme at the UN Environment Programme. She has pursued her research interests in parallel to her career at the United Nations, and was director of research at the University of Paris V since 2000. From 2002 to 2007, she served as scientific officer and deputy scientific coordinator of scientific programmes of the European Commission.