2001 NCSE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

          Maurice Strong
          Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General

Maurice Strong, a senior advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and former senior advisor to the President of the World Bank, is one of the world's most influential political and environmental activists.

Strong served on the board of directors for the United Nations Foundation, a UNaffiliated organization established by Ted Turner's historic $1 billion donation. He is also a director of the World Economic For-urn Foundation, Chairman of the Earth Council, former Chairman of the Stockholm Environment Institute, and former Chairman of the World Resources Institute.

In his native Canada, Strong has amassed a fortune in a career spanning over five decades at some of Canada's most prestigious companies. He has run several companies in the energy and resources sector, including the Power Corporation of Canada, Ontario Hydro, and Petro-Canada (the national oil company). He is currently the chairman of Technology Development, Inc., which funds research in the groundbreaking field of applying nanotechnology towards creating energy sources that are both affordable and ecofriendly.

He first worked with the United Nations as a junior officer in 1947, when he was just eighteen, and returned in 1970 to lead the Conference on the Human Environment in Geneva, after which he became the executive director of the UN's environmental program. Strong also coordinated the UN's emergency relief efforts in Africa in the mid'80s and was in charge of the historic 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. He recently took part in the reorganization of the UN's University for Peace, located in Costa Rica, and continues to help the university redefine its mission for the 21st century.

Strong's professional accomplishments in Canada have earned him numerous honors. He is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, the Swedish Royal Order of the Polar Star, and the Royal Societies of both Canada and Great Britain. He has received 41 honorary doctorates from universities in North America and Europe.

He has been featured in every major news media outlet in the United States, Canada and Europe. Strong regularly travels across the globe, from Japan to Africa, London to Costa Rica, and all comers of the planet to further the causes of peace and the environment.

Strong lives north of Toronto, in the wilderness of Ontario.

(Text courtesy of IAED; Photo courtesy of Earth Council)

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