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Richard E. Benedick Since 1994 Dr. Benedick has been President of the National Council for Science and the Environment, an organization of over 500 universities, scientific societies, industry and civic groups dedicated to improving the scientific basis for environmental decision making. He is concurrently Visiting Fellow since 1995 at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (Social Science Research Center). His acclaimed book, Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet (Harvard University Press, 1991, enlarged ed. 1998; Japanese ed. 1999), was selected by McGraw-Hill for an anthology of twentieth-century environmental classics, and is used in universities throughout the world. He has lectured at more than 70 universities and professional bodies, serves on several boards, and is consulted by international agencies, governments, foundations and industry. He has organized and/or presided over numerous international conferences and negotiations on environment, development, population, and science policy. In 2005, he was appointed to The National Academies' Committee on Analysis of Global Change Assessments. Benedick was elected in 1991 to the World Academy of Art and Science, and in 2002, to the American Academy of Diplomacy, an association of 100 former cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, and statesmen “who have made notable contributions to American foreign policy.” He received the two highest Presidential career public service honors (the Distinguished, and two Meritorious, Service Awards), as well as the State Department's John Jacob Rogers medal and the United Nations Ozone Award. Other distinctions include two State Department Superior Honor medals; visiting fellow, National Center for Atmospheric Research; senior fellow, World Wildlife Fund; Stimson Fellow in International Relations at Yale University; awards from the Holy See, the Climate Institute, and Population Reference Bureau; Tönisssteiner Kreis; and Phi Beta Kappa. He is cited in Who's Who in America since 1980. A career diplomat, Dr. Benedick served in Iran, Pakistan, Paris, Bonn, and Athens. As Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, he supervised policy formation and international negotiations on climate change, stratospheric ozone, biotechnology, tropical forests, oceans, wildlife conservation, and AIDS. Previously, he headed policy divisions at State Department responsible for global population policies and research, and for economic assistance and multilateral finance; he was also selected for the ten-month Senior Seminar, the U.S. government's highest study program. He has led many international delegations and testified before the U.S. Congress and foreign parliaments, most recently in 2005 before the Senate on science and environmental policy. Benedick is author of over 120 publications in the U.S. and abroad, including Industrial Finance in Iran, The High Dam and the Transformation of the Nile , and a chapter on climate policy in a recent book of the Max Planck Society. He holds an A.B. summa cum laude, Columbia; M.A. (honors) in economics, Yale; doctorate in international finance, Harvard Graduate School of BusinessAdministration; and was Evans Fellow at Oxford in metaphysical poetry. He received a D.Sc. honoris causa from North Carolina State University in 2004.
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