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Kishore Rao

deputy director
UNESCO World Heritage Centre (CLT/WHC)

Contact

World Heritage Centre
7, place de fontenoy
75352 Paris
France

Email:
Tel: +33-(0)1-4568-1559

Biography

Kishore Rao (India) joined the UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre in February 2005 as its Deputy Director. In this capacity he is also directly responsible for leading and overseeing the work of the Centre on natural heritage, under the 1972 World Heritage Convention.

He has Master’s Degrees in Forestry (from the Forest Research Institute in India), and in Natural Resources Policy and Planning (from Cornell University in USA), and has worked with the Government of India since 1976 on protected area, forestry and wildlife policies and programmes in various capacities in the Ministry of Environment and Forests at the Centre and in different States of the Union.

Kishore Rao joined IUCN – The World Conservation Union in 1999 and was Head of the Ecosystems and Livelihoods Group of IUCN for the Asia Region, positioned in Hanoi, Vietnam with responsibility for the Asia Regional Protected Areas Programme, the Asia Regional Mountains Programmes, and oversight of the China programme. He was also the Vice-Chair for IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) for South Asia from 1994 to 1999 and a member of the IUCN’s World Heritage Panel from 2002 to 2004.