FOUNDERS
ECA has been founded by two individuals with deep commitments to the sustainability movement. With the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, Maurice Strong originally established the Earth Council to mobilize and support a network of citizen groups, NGOs and other organizations committed to achieving the goals of sustainability. Now the Earth Council Alliance carries that commitment forward. Mr. Strong, ECA's co-founder, serves as Chairman Emeritus. In addition, Jan A. Hartke has been named his successor as ECA President, bringing new perspectives, resources, and creativity to the already-wide range of talented sustainability experts who have been assembled.
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Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus
Maurice Strong has been dedicated to environmental and humanitarian concerns for more than four decades. Mr. Strong founded the Earth Council with the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. He is now extending that effort with a new mandate to unite Earth Councils and like-minded organizations on a collaborative platform
under the Earth Council Alliance. Mr. Strong was Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the Stockholm conference on sustainability in 1972; the first Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme; and Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development - the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
President
Jan Hartke helped to launch the internationalization of the environmental movement in the early 1980s, drafting and working to pass the National Governors Association's Global Environmental Policy, the first governmental recognition of the full spectrum of transboundary environmental issues.
He serves as President of the Earth Council Alliance, first formed in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Executive Committee Member
HRH Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Professor of Environmental Policy; Director of the Energy, Resources and Environment (ERE) Program. Dr. Jhirad was the Vice President of Research and Evaluation and the Special Adviser on Energy and Climate Change at the Rockefeller Foundation. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Jhirad
Former professor and/or researcher at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Brookhaven National Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Boston University and the University of Massachusetts; was special adviser on energy and climate and vice president of Research and Evaluation at The Rockefeller Foundation and was vice president for Science and Research at the World Resources Institute; served in the U.S. Department of Energy as deputy assistant secretary for International Energy Policy, Trade and Investment and senior
President
Dr. Marcelo Carvalho de Andrade, a leader in sustainable community development, has dedicated his career to conserving biodiversity and improving the quality of life of local communities throughout the world. As founder and Chairman of Pro-Natura International (PNI), he created the first international, nongovernmental organization
based in the Southern Hemisphere to specialize in sustainable development over 20 years ago. Active in 36 countries across all continents, PNI is instrumental in developing innovative solutions to local economic problems while preserving the environment. A testament to his dedication and vision, Dr. de Andrade was the 1997 recipient of the George and Cynthia Mitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development, often referred to as the Nobel Prize for sustainable development.