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Maurice Strong, Under Secretary General of the United Nations, has joined the Board of Directors of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE). Strong also serves as Special Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Senior Advisor to the President of the World Bank, and President of the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica.
A native of Canada, Strong is one of the world's foremost political and environmental figures. He served as Secretary-General of the historic 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, and currently serves as Chairman of the Earth Council, an organization formed to promote the Earth Summit agreements. From 1970-1972, he was Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Geneva. He then served as the first Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme until 1975.
Strong's career also encompasses the business sector, where he has headed several major companies, including Ontario Hydro and Petro-Canada. He is currently Chairman of Strovest Holdings, Inc. and Technology Development Corporation. Strong also served on the board of the World Economic Forum Foundation, and is former Chairman of both the Stockholm Environment Institute and the World Resources Institute, and former board member of the United Nations Foundation.
Strong has received many honors and awards throughout his lifetime, including 51 honorary doctorates. In 2001, he was awarded the first NCSE Lifetime Achievement Award at the Second National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment. He attaches special importance to NCSE's mission of improving the scientific basis of environmental decisionmaking, saying "these decisions must be guided by the best knowledge and advice that science can provide."
Honorary Board Members. Robert S. McNamara and James Gustave Speth have been appointed as Honorary Members of the Board. McNamara served on the NCSE Board for six years as part of his distinguished public service career. Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, has been a member of NCSE's Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD) since 2001. Speth commented, "As one of the founders of NCSE, I feel immensely proud about what its University Affiliate Program has been able to achieve in bringing the academic community's educational, training and research programs to the attention of key policymakers."
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