Shamila Nair-Bedouelle took up her new duties as Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences on 1 April 2019.
She comes to UNESCO from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), where she had served as Director of the OzonAction programme since 2012. Responsible for implementing the Multilateral Fund for the Montreal Protocol, she had coordinated a unique network of 147 national Ozone Action offices, providing developing countries with scientific and technical advice as to which alternative technologies to choose to the chemical substances depleting the Ozone Layer. A strong advocate for enhancing womens’ role in science and engineering, she launched UNEP’s first training programme for women technicians.
Born in 1960, Shamila Nair-Bedouelle holds a PhD in Life Sciences from the University of Capetown in South Africa. She pursued her research career at the Institut Pasteur in Paris from January 1992 onwards then within the pharmaceutical industry at the MIT University Park in Boston, USA, from January 1994 until January 1996, when she integrated the French National Institue for Medical Research (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, INSERM). She has published in numerous scientific journals and is the co-inventor of several patents.
Dr Nair-Bedouelle has pursued her research interests in parallel to her career at the United Nations. She has been Director of Research at the University of Paris V in France since 2000 and was nominated First Class Director of Research at INSEM in 2017.
She also has a strong interest in managing science programmes. From 2002 to 2007, she was seconded from INSEM to the European Commission to serve as scientific officer and deputy scientific coordinator of scientific programmes.
In January 2007, Dr Nair-Bedouelle was seconded from INSEM to UNESCO to head its Ethics of Science and Technology programme.
Eighteen months later, she joined UNESCO’s Sector for Natural Sciences as Chief of the Unit for Africa’s Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action within the Division for Science Policy and Capacity-building. Here, she managed the United Nations Cluster for Science and Technology in Africa and represented UNESCO at the African Ministerial Council for Science and Technology. As Coordinator of the Working Group on Gender Equality at UNESCO from January 2010 onwards, she launched the first Science Camp for Girls in South Africa and coordinated science education projects on the continent.
Africa remained the focus of her work at the Africa Department, where she evaluated UNESCO’s scientific programmes on the continent from January 2012 onwards before taking up her new functions as Director of OzonAction at UNEP.
莎米拉·奈尔-贝杜埃勒就任教科文组织自然科学助理总干事
莎米拉·奈尔-贝杜埃勒（Shamila Nair-Bedouelle）于2019年4月1日开始正式担任联合国教科文组织自然科学助理总干事。
奈尔-贝杜埃勒自2012年起任职于联合国环境署（UNEP），担任臭氧行动计划（OzonAction programme）主任。负责《蒙特利尔议定书》多边基金的执行工作，协调由147个国别臭氧行动办事处组成的独特网络，并就消耗臭氧层的化学物质的替代技术选择向发展中国家提供科学与技术建议。她积极倡导强化女性在科学和工程方面发挥的作用，并启动了环境署第一项女性技术人员培训方案。
奈尔-贝杜埃勒生于1960年，拥有南非开普敦大学生命科学博士学位。自1992年1月起，她在巴黎巴斯德研究院开展研究。1992年1月至1996年1月在美国波士顿麻省理工学院大学公园从事制药研究。随后，进入法国国家健康与医学研究院（INSERM）工作。她曾在众多科学期刊上发表文章，同时还是多项专利的共同发明人。
在联合国职业生涯的同期，奈尔-贝杜埃勒博士继续追寻她的科学兴趣。她自2000年起便担任巴黎第五大学研究主任，并于2017年被INSERM评为一等研究主任。
她对科学课程管理同样有着浓厚兴趣。从2002年到2007年，她从INSERM借调到欧洲委员会，担任不同科学计划的科学干事和代理科学协调员。
2007年1月，奈尔-贝杜埃勒博士借调至教科文组织，负责领导科学与技术伦理项目。
1年半后，她加入教科文组织自然科学部门，担任科学政策和能力建设司非洲科学和技术综合行动计划主任。在这里，她负责管理联合国非洲科学和技术集群，并代表教科文组织参加非洲科学和技术部长理事会。作为教科文组织性别平等工作组协调员，自2010年1月起，她在南非启动了第一个女童科学营，并对非洲的科学教育项目进行了协调管理。
自2012年1月起，她加入了教科文组织非洲部门，着手评估教科文组织的非洲科学项目。随后，奈尔-贝杜埃勒博士加入了联合国环境署，担任臭氧行动计划主任。
(Source: UNESCO)