Previous Fora / 2003
Speakers
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Dr. Julia Marton-Lefevre |
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Julia Marton-Lefevre has been the Executive Director of LEAD International since 1997. LEAD (Leadership for the Environment and Development) was founded by the Rockefeller Foundation and is dedicated to training people from all over the world in the techniques of sustainable development. She is also Vice Chair of the World Resources Institute and a member of a number of boards and commissions, including the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); the InterAcademy Council's Panel on Promoting Worldwide Science and Technology Capacities for the 21st Century; the International Council of Science's Committee on Science and Technology for Development; the International Advisory Board to the National Academy of Sciences (USA); the Center for Science and the Media and the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, the Dow Chemical Company's Corporate Environmental Advisory Council; the Environmental Advisory Board of the Coca-Cola Company. She is also a Trustee of the St. Andrew's Prize and a member of the Editorial Board of the New Academy Review. From 1992 to 2002 she was a member of the China Council for International Cooperation in Environment and Development, and has also served on the Oxford Commission on Sustainable Consumption as well as on the Committee on Science and Technology in Developing Countries (COSTED).
Before joining LEAD in September 1997, she was Executive Director of the International Council for Science (ICSU) based in Paris. Prior positions have included Programme Specialist in Environmental Education under a joint UNESCO-UNEP Programme, university teacher in Thailand as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and a staff member of the Fund for Education and Peace in New York.
Ms Marton-Lefevre is a member of the UN Secretary General's Task Force on Environment and Human Settlements and has been involved with a number of international bodies concerned with environment and development issues, including Earthwatch, the Earth Council, the Center for Our Common Future, and The World Conservation Union.
Ms Marton-Lefevre has co-authored numerous books and papers. In 1999 she received the AAAS Award for International Cooperation in Science, and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of the United Kingdom. She studied history, ecology and environmental planning in the US and in France, and was born in Hungary.
Resources on the Web
LEAD (Leadership for the Environment and Development)
http://www.lead.org/
World Resources Institute:
http://www.wri.org/
Aldo Leopold Leadership Program:
http://www.leopoldleadership.org/
http://www.ourplanet.com/imgversn/121/marton.html
Julia Marton-Lefevre describes creating a network of future leaders in sustainable development, and keeping them in touch with each other.
In the Science, Technology and Research Institutes workshop, participants agreed that while "curiosity-driven" science would always continue, much more effort was needed to incorporate the human dimension in scientific research. "We must work with human economic scientists to achieve this," said spokesperson Julia Marton-Lefevre, of the International Council of Scientific Unions. "We must also work towards the globalization of knowledge, using all the means at our disposal, and ensure fairer access to education."
Science and Technology and Research Institutes
http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio5/mar14/releaseaen.html
http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio5/mar13/workden.html
Chairpersons and Process Stewards: Julia Marton-Lefevre, International Council of Scientific Unions Y Youba Sokona, Environment et Developpement du Tiers Monde, Senegal.
Julia Marton-Lefevre provided an overview of NGO mechanisms for international cooperation in science and technology: http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/vol05/0573003e.html
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