Science, Technology and Diplomacy: Experiences from Global Biodiversity Negotiations

About

Ambassador Vicente Sanchez was the chairman of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Convention on Biological Diversity. He moved into environmental diplomacy after serving for over a decade as professor of medicine and psychiatry at the University of Chile. He was recently Chile's Ambassador to Poland and executive director of the South Centre in Geneva. He is trained in medicine, psychiatry and sociology at the University of Chile and Harvard University.