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Speakers:

Kofi Annan Jesse Ausubel Bill Baker Wilfred Beckerman Brenda Bell Wallace Broecker Gale Christianson William Clark Joel Cohen Michael Crow

Cornelia Dean Ira Flatow Mikhail Gorbachev Encho Gospodinov James Hansen Robert Hass Robert Kaplan Joan Konner Richard Lindzen Alan Meier

Dennis Mileti John Mutter William O'Keefe Marc Reisner F. Sherwood Rowland George Rupp Peter Singer Maurice Strong Lynn Sykes Admiral James Watkins

State of the Planet Speaker Bios
(in order of presentation)

Maurice Strong
Chair of the Earth Council and Senior Advisor to both the United Nations and the World Bank, Mr. Strong has forged a distinguished career of international environmental action. Former chief of both Ontario Hydro and Petro-Canada, he has served as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Coordinator of the UN Office for Emergency Operations in Africa, and was Secretary General of the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development. Mr. Strong also served as Secretary General of the UN Conference on the Human Environment and was the first Executive Director of the UN Environment Program in Kenya. Over his career, Mr. Strong has received numerous honors, including the Royal Order of Canada, the Swedish Royal Order of the Polar Star, and 37 honorary doctorates. back to Schedule

George Rupp
President of Columbia University for over six years, Dr. Rupp has dedicated his tenure to enhancing undergraduate education, building rapport with New York City and the communities of the Upper West Side, and enhancing the international orientation of the university. Dr. Rupp came to Columbia from the presidency of Rice University, be