birth_place birth_date known_for article_title name
lancy -lrb- switzerland -rrb- 13 september 1949 director fund for nature director of the swiss federal office for of the environment the swiss section of the world wide philippe roch
 philippe roch
philippe roch

philippe roch -lrb- born 1949 -rrb- was a swiss civil servant .
philippe roch obtained a phd in biochemistry in 1977 .
he was elected deputy of the christian democratic people 's party of switzerland at the grand council of geneva -lrb- 1973-1982 -rrb- .
he was director of the swiss section of the world wide fund for nature -lrb- 1977-1992 -rrb- and director of the swiss federal office for the environment of the federal department of environment , transport , energy and communications -lrb- 1992-2005 -rrb- .
he was member of the board of directors of the global environment facility , of the united nations institute for training and research and of the united nations environment programme .
philippe roch chaired the conference of the parties of the basel convention -lrb- 1999-2002 -rrb- and of the rotterdam convention -lrb- 2004-2005 -rrb- .
in 2008 , he received a honorary degree from the university of lausanne .
