Etienne Clément, Deputy Director UNESCO Bangkok
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Deputy Director of UNESCO Bangkok since 2009, Mr. Clément, a former law lecturer, joined UNESCO in 1984 in the Dakar Office, Senegal. He was later promoted to a position in the Culture Sector at Headquarters in Paris to develop international standards on the protection of cultural heritage. In 1998, Mr. Clément was appointed Head of the UNESCO Office in Phnom Penh and Representative to Cambodia. From 2005 to 2009, he was the Deputy Director of the Bureau of Field Coordination at Paris Headquarters.
His principle functions as the Deputy Director of UNESCO Bangkok are to provide integrated management and programming services to the office. Mr. Clément is also responsible for the Cluster mandate, providing strategic and operational leadership to the Organization’s action in four countries (Lao PDR, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand) and cooperating with the UNESCO national offices in Hanoi and Phnom Penh. Mr. Clément is the co-author of several books and the author of many articles, namely on the protection of cultural heritage.