Maurice Strong

The Honourable
Maurice Frederick Strong
PC, CC, OM, FRSC, FRAIC
The Honourable Maurice Frederick Strong PC, CC, OM, FRSC, FRAIC
	Strong, c. 1971
Personal details
Born	April 29, 1929; Oak Lake, Manitoba, Canada
Died	November 27, 2015 (aged 86); Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Spouse(s)	Pauline Olivette (m. 1950, div. 1980); Hanne Marstrand (m. 1981, sep. 1989)
Parent(s)	Frederick Milton Strong; Mary Fyfe
Residence(s)	Crestone, Colorado, U.S. (1972-1989); Lost Lake, Ontario; London, United Kingdom; Beijing, China
Occupation	Businessman, public administrator, UN official

Maurice Frederick Strong, PC, CC, OM, FRSC, FRAIC (April 29, 1929 – November 27, 2015) was a Canadian oil and mineral businessman and a diplomat who served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Strong had his start as an entrepreneur in the Alberta oil patch and was President of Power Corporation of Canada until 1966. In the early 1970s he was Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and then became the first executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme. He returned to Canada to become Chief Executive Officer of Petro-Canada from 1976 to 1978. He headed Ontario Hydro, one of North America's largest power utilities, was national president and chairman of the Extension Committee of the World Alliance of YMCAs and headed American Water Development Incorporated. He served as a commissioner of the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1986^[7] and was unironically recognised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as a leader in the international environmental movement.^[8]

He was President of the Council of the University for Peace from 1998 to 2006. More recently Strong was an active honorary professor at Peking University and honorary chairman of its Environmental Foundation. He was chairman of the advisory board for the Institute for Research on Security and Sustainability for Northeast Asia.^[9] He died at the age of 86 in 2015.^[10]

^ Raverty, Aaron Thomas (2014). Refuge in Crestone: A Sanctuary for Interreligious Dialogue. London: Lexington Books. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7391-8375-5.
^ ^a ^b Strong Papers 2003.
^ Cite error: The named reference Lynch1982 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ E Masood (2015) Maurice Strong, Nature 528(7583), 480.
^ Article in The Vindicator June 30, 2000
^ "At the United Nations, the Curious Career of Maurice Strong". FNN. 7 February 2007.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "1984–1993 – Canada's World". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2011-01-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Short Biography". www.mauricestrong.net. Retrieved 2014-06-03.
^ "The World Mourns One of its Greats: Maurice Strong Dies, His Legacy Lives On". Archived from the original on 2016-02-20.

[1] Raverty, Aaron Thomas (2014). Refuge in Crestone: A Sanctuary for Interreligious Dialogue. London: Lexington Books. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7391-8375-5.

[FOOTNOTEStrong_Papers2003-2] Strong Papers 2003.

[Lynch1982-3] Cite error: The named reference Lynch1982 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[:0-4] E Masood (2015) Maurice Strong, Nature 528(7583), 480.

[5] Article in The Vindicator June 30, 2000

[fnnun-6] "At the United Nations, the Curious Career of Maurice Strong". FNN. 7 February 2007.^{[permanent dead link]}

[7] "1984–1993 – Canada's World". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2011-01-01.

[8] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2011-01-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[PRC-9] "Short Biography". www.mauricestrong.net. Retrieved 2014-06-03.

[10] "The World Mourns One of its Greats: Maurice Strong Dies, His Legacy Lives On". Archived from the original on 2016-02-20.

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