Marie CHAMAY is Programme Officer on Trade and Natural Resources at ICTSD. Her responsibilities include developing a project on tropical and diversification products in the ICTSD’s programme on Agriculture, which aims to redress current inequities in the treatment of products of export interest to developing countries. She is also responsible for ICTSD’s project on trade and sustainable land management and ICTSD’s project on sustainable bioenergy production and trade in the programmes on Environment and Natural Resources, and Energy and Climate Change respectively. Ms. Chamay first joined ICTSD as Intellectual Property Programme Associate in 2002.
She holds a BSc in Geography (Minor in Environmental Sciences) from the University of Geneva and an MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Economics (LSE). Ms. Chamay is lead author of ICTSD’s report Promoting Sustainable Land Management through Trade: Examining the Linkages between Trade, Livelihoods and Sustainable Land Management in Degraded Areas, for the Global Mechanism of the UNCCD. She is of joint Swiss and French nationality.