James+Gustave+Speth+(Gus)

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=James Gustave Speth (Gus)=

Yale Forestry School Location (traveling from): New Haven, CT Contact Information: gus.speth@yale.edu Availability: **Unavailable**, Mr. Speth will be lecturing at Yale those dates Cost: NA Conference Topic Emphasis: Environment Background Information: From 1993 to 1999, Dean Speth served as administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Insti-tute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality; and senior attorney and cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council.

Throughout his career, Dean Speth has provided leadership and entrepreneurial initiatives to many task forces and committees whose roles have been to combat environmental degradation, including the President’s Task Force on Global Resources and Environment; the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and Development; and the National Commission on the Environment. Among his awards are the National Wildlife Federation’s Resources Defense Award, the Natural Resources Council of America’s Barbara Swain Award of Honor, a 1997 Special Recognition Award from the Society for International Development, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Environmental Law Institute, and the Blue Planet Prize. Publications include //Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment//; //Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment//; and articles in //Foreign Policy//, //Foreign Affairs//, //Environmental Science and Technology//, the //Columbia Journal World of Business//, and other journals and books.