Marie Paule Roudil is the Chief of Section of the culture sector at the UNESCO Regional Office for Sciences, Venice. A trained lawyer, she was elected member of the collective consultation of UNESCO youth NGOs in 1985 when she contributed to the Youth International Yeaer and the World Congress on Youth. She later became a UNESCO consultant to develop a new program on youth, human rights and AIDS in cooperation with the WHO. She has represented UNESCO within the program. Ms. Roudil holds a law degree from the Sorbonne.