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Natarajan Ishwaran studied animal ecology and zoology at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka before obtaining a Ph.D. in Science and Wildlife Management from Michigan State University in the United States. Following his arrival at UNESCO in 1986, he worked on the implementation of the natural component of the World Heritage Convention and other environmental initiatives such as the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, Biosphere reserves and the International Geoscience Programme. He headed the Natural Heritage Section of the World Heritage Center from 1996 to 2004, before being appointed Director of the Division of Ecological Sciences and Earth Sciences of UNESCO. In 2012, he left this position to bring his expertise to the International Center on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage in Beijing, China. Since 2013, he has been responsible for the Asia-Pacific region at ProNatura International.
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