A fifteen member Committee administers the Mechanism for Promoting Implementation and Compliance. Committee members are nominated by the Parties, based on equitable geographical representation of the five regional groups of the United Nations, and elected by the Conference of the Parties. They are to serve objectively and in the best interest of the Convention. They shall have expertise relating to the subject matter of the Convention in areas including scientific, technical, socio-economic and/or legal fields.
For more information on the composition and tenure of the Committee, please refer to paragraphs 3 to 8 of the terms of reference of the Committee.
Ten new members of the Committee have been elected by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (17-21 October 2011):
Mr. Toshikatsu Aoyama
Mr. Toshikatsu Aoyama was elected to the Committee by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. He is Senior Coordinator, Global Environment Division International Cooperation Bureau in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
Ms. Anahit Aleksandryan
Ms. Anahit Aleksandryan was elected to the Committee by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. Upon obtaining her Master of Science degree in Biophysics in 1978, Ms. Anahit Aleksandryan was engaged as a researcher in the area of Environmental Hygiene and Industrial Toxicology. In 1985 Ms. Aleksandryan completed her PhD studies in Biology. Since 1996, Dr. Aleksandryan has been employed at the Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia as a Principal Specialist (1996-1998), Head of Hazardous Substances and Waste Management Department (1998-2010) and Head of Hazardous Substances and Waste Policy Division (since 2010). In 2011, Dr. Aleksandryan obtained Science Doctor in Biology degree. Her publications exceed 70, including 2 monographs. Dr. Aleksandryan is Focal Point of: UNEP Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal; UNEP Stockholm Convention on POPs;UNEP Rotterdam Convention on PIC; UNECE Convention on Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents; SAICM (Strategic Approach to International Chemical Management); Environment and Health (WHO).
Ms. Olufunke Olubunmi Babade
Ms. Olufunke Olubunmi Babade was elected to the Committee by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. Mrs. Olufunke Olubunmi Babade; born to Chief Oluyemi Omololu and Late Mrs. Ama Omololu on 17th February, 1954 in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. She holds a B.Sc (1978) in Life Sciences from the University of Westminster (London), M.Sc (1979) in Environmental Pollution Control from Leeds University, Leeds, England. She served her fatherland as a Youth Corper and a pioneer Officer with the Environmental Planning and protection Division of the then Federal Ministry of Works and Housing in 1980 after which she got a pensionable employment as Scientific Officer I on Grade Level 09. Mrs. O.O. Babade by dint of hard work was promoted to Senior Scientific Officer Grade Level 10 in 1983 and Principal Scientific Officer Grade Level 12 in 1986. She became an Assistant Chief Environmental Scientist GL. 13 in 1988 at the then Federal Environmental protection Agency (FEPA) and rose to the rank of a Chief Environmental Scientist GL. 14 in 1992. She joined the Directorate cadre in 1996 as an Assistant Director and served in different Departments such as: Inspectorate and Compliance Monitoring; Planning and Evaluation; Industrial Compliance; Chemicals Tracking and Hazardous Waste Management; and Pollution Control. In 2000, she was appointed a Deputy Director and the Federal Controller of Environment, Lagos Zonal Office in June 2004. She is currently the Director Pollution Control and Environmental Health Department of the Federal Ministry of Environment. Mrs. Babade attended many training programmes and also represented the Federal Government in various seminars/meetings/workshops both locally and internationally. She is a member of the Nigerian Environmental society (NES), Chemical Society of Nigeria and Society of Environmental Managers and Planners. Mrs. Olufunke Olubunmi Babade is happily married to HRM (Oba) Babade, Owa of Oke-Oro Ekiti and the marriage is blessed with Children.
Ms. Anne Daniel
Ms. Anne Daniel was elected to the Committee by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. She is a General Counsel with the Constitutional, Administrative and International Law Section of the Department of Justice, who has provided legal advice to the Government of Canada on international environmental law over the last twenty years, including on multilateral environmental agreements in the chemicals, ocean dumping and biodiversity fields. Her 1997 LL.M. thesis was on compliance with environmental agreements. She has advised on the Basel Convention since the mid-1990s, was involved in the negotiation of the Liability Protocol and the compliance procedures, served on the Compliance Committee from 2004-2006, and was recently elected by the Tenth Conference of the Parties for two terms on the Committee from 2011-2015. She is a former Co-chair of the Basel Open-ended Working Group (2004-05). Ms. Daniel recently finished several years as Chair of the Compliance Group of the 1996 Protocol to the London Convention (ocean dumping), previously having chaired the negotiation of those compliance procedures. She has been the chair of ongoing negotiations for compliance procedures under the Stockholm Convention and is a Vice-President of that Convention. Ms. Daniel is also currently participating in the negotiation of a global treaty on mercury.
Ms. Anne-Laure Genty
Ms. Anne-Laure Genty was elected to the Committee by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. She is waste shipment policy advisor, in the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing of France. Ms Genty has worked for the Ministry of sustainable development as a civil servant since 2005. Since 2009, she has been involved in waste management policy when she started to work in the General directorate of risk prevention. She has been in charged of the Basel convention and the European Waste Shipment Regulation, and she is also member of the steering committee of the IMPEL TFS network. She is involved in international and national problems of waste shipment related to legal, technical and scientific aspects.
Mr. Enrique Moret Hernández
Mr. Enrique Moret Hernández was elected to the Committee by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. He is Director of the International Affairs Department in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment of Cuba.
Mr. Mohammed Khashashneh
Mr. Mohammed Khashashneh was elected to the Committee by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. He is Director, Hazardous Substances and Waste Management Directorate in the Ministry of Environment of Jordan.
Ms. Jimena Nieto
Ms. Jimena Nieto was elected to the Committee by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. She is a lawyer with a Master of Laws (LLM) in Public Environmental Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, United Kingdom and has a Certificat d'études politiques at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. She is fluent in Spanish, English and French. In 2011 at the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Colombia, she was in charge of the preparatory process for the Basel Convention COP10 that was held in Cartagena de Indias. Ms Nieto was also the Head (Alternate) of the Colombian Delegation during COP10. In her capacity as Head of the International Affairs Office of the then, Colombian Ministry of Environment, in the period 1993 – 2003, she was part of the Colombian delegations that represented the government in different multilateral fora, including biodiversity, climate change, waste, chemicals and international environmental governance. In that capacity she attended several meetings of the then Legal and Technical Working Group of the Basel Convention as well as COP5 in Basel, Switzerland. She participated actively in the negotiation of the Liability and Redress Protocol to the Basel Convention. It is also worth mentioning that as part of the Colombian delegation to the biosafety negotiations, she was elected in the year 2000, Co-chair of the negotiating process in the context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, that lead in October 2010 to the adoption of the “Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress for Damage resulting from Living Modified Organisms”. In 2007 she was designated coordinator of environmental affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, until 2008 when she resigned. Currently she is a Professor of International Environmental Law, in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at three prestigious universities in Bogota.
Ms. Judith Torres
Ms Judith Torres was nominated by Uruguay on 20 October 2011 to serve on the Committee as the alternate of Ms Pauline Davies until the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties. Ms Torres is Head of the Department of Hazardous Substances. Division of Environmental Control and Performance, National Environmental Directorate of Uruguay.
Mr. Raphael Dakouri Zadi
Mr Raphael Dakouri Zadi was elected to the Committee by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. He is the Point Focal for the Basel Convention, Stockholm Convention and SAICM in the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Cote d'Ivoire.
Mr. Felix Zaharia
Mr. Felix Zaharia was elected to the Committee by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. He is the Deputy Director for International Law and Treaties in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania. While dealing with all issue concerning international law, his main area o expertise is international environmental law. He has dealt with international environmental law extensively, and represented Romania in all issues concerning international environmental law, before other implementation and compliance committees. He has also participated, on behalf of Romania, in proceedings before the International Court of Justice.
Ms. Leela Padmini Batuwitage
Ms. Batuwitage was elected to the Compliance Committee by the ninth meeting of
the Conference of the Parties in June 2008 for two full terms, which will end at
the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties. Ms Batuwitage is an
Advisor to the Ministry of Environment, Sri Lanka. She formerly was the
Additional Secretary (Environment and Policy) of the Ministry of Environment,
Sri Lanka. She has been actively involved in the Basel Convention since COP2.
She has extensive experience in Development of National Environmental Policies
and Strategies, International Environmental Policies, International
Environmental Negotiations, Industrial Ecology and Green Design, and Natural
Resources Economies in Developing Countries. She represented the Asia and the
Pacific Region at the Intersessional Working Group to review the 10 year
Strategic Plan for the implementation of the Basel Convention. She also
represented the Asia and the Pacific Region in the Ad-Hoc Joint Working Group on
Cooperation and Coordination between the Basel, Rotterdam and the Stockholm
Conventions. She was a Vice Chair at the 4th Meeting of the Open Ended Working
Group for the Basel Convention. Her Ph.D Thesis was on “A Sustainable Production
and Consumption Model for Sri Lanka, Considering the Developing Country
Perspective in relation to Global Change”. She has been offered a Special
Recognition Award by the National Cleaner Production Center in recognition of
the invaluable contribution to Cleaner Production in Sri Lanka.
Mrs. Irena Sedlackova
Mr. Dessalegne Mesfin Fanta
Mr. Dessalegne Mesfin obtained his Masters Degree in Environment for Development in 2007. He graduated from the Law Faculty of Addis Ababa University and obtained LLB. He also pursued a correspondence course in International Environmental Policy and Law. For a couple of years, he worked as Head of the Legal and Certification Service of the then called Ethiopian Authority for Standardization and served as Public Prosecutor on matters dealing with Metrology. He joined the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia (EPA) as an Environmental Policy Analyst and was later appointed as Head of the Environmental Policy and Legislation Department of EPA. Currently, he is Deputy Director General of the Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority and has written and presented numerous studies in the area of environment and development. He also participated in a number of Multilateral Environmental Agreements representing Ethiopia. Mr. Dessalegne served as co-chair of the Legal and Implementation working group of the Basel Convention that was established by COP 6 to the Basel Convention. He also served as Vice President of the Bureau of the First Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention. He served as a member of the Steering Committee for the International Expert Meeting on Sustainable Consumption and Production. In addition, he is member of the Steering Committee of the Nile Transboundary Environmental Action Programme and Chair of the Small Grant Programme of the GEF-UNDP/Ethiopia. Mr. Mesfin was elected to the Compliance Committee by the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties in June 2008 for two full terms, which will end at the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties.
Mr. Roy Watkinson
Mr. Watkinson was elected to the Compliance Committee by the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties in December 2002 and served until the end of the eight meeting of the Conference of the Parties in November 2006. He was elected as Chair of the Compliance Committee in 2003 and presided over the Committee’s four meetings until the expiry of his term of office. He was re-elected to the Compliance Committee by the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. He is a UK expert dealing with UNEP Basel Convention, enforcement and compliance with Multilateral Environmental Agreements and hazardous waste management. As the UK Environment Agency’s Hazardous Waste Policy Manger he initiated a number of projects on controlling transboundary shipments of waste that led to successful prosecutions. He has been UK representative on OECD committees and at the European Union for controlling transboundary movements of wastes. He has contributed to international conferences, working groups and projects in respect of environmental crime prevention, waste regulation and management and ship dismantling – chairing the Basel Convention’s working groups on this issue and the Joint ILO/IMO/BC working group. Mr. Watkinson was elected to the Compliance Committee by the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties in June 2008 for two full terms, which will end at the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties.