Seema PAUL

Biography

Seema Paul is taking up a new assignment with UNAIDS in Geneva starting January 2006.

Before this assignment, Seema was program officer for biodiversity at the United Nations Foundation in Washington D.C. where she administers grants worth $ 5 million dollars annually to UN organizations working with civil society for the sustainable use and protection of the World Heritage Criteria IV natural sites as well as for coral reefs. Seema has a Master's degree in Environmental Policy from the University of Maryland and a Master's degree in English Literature from Delhi University. She is also an alumnus of the prestigous St. Stephen's College in New Delhi. Before joining the UN Foundation in June 1999, Seema worked for the World Resources Institute in Washington D.C. Prior to that, she was the Special Correspondent incharge of Enviornment and Development in The Telegraph's Delhi Bureau. Along with Usha Rai, formerly of the Times of India and Indian Express, she was the first Indian correspondent working in a national bureau to treat Environment as her primary beat. In 1992, she covered the UN Conference on Environment and Development and in 1996, she attended the International Conference on Population and Development. In 1989, she worked in Time Magazine as an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow. She led the research effort in India for the Dallas Morning News' Pulitzer winning story on state of women around the world. Seema helped decide the strategic focus of the story on the well known Bhanwari Devi rape case in Rajasthan.

This biography was last updated on February 3, 2006