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Maurice F. Strong
Senior Advisor to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
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Maurice F. Strong, PC CC OM FRSC FRS is a Canadian businessman specialising in oil and mineral resources, and a former diplomat representing Canada as under-secretary general of the United Nations. Strong's first name is pronounced "Mor'ris" with the accent on the first syllable. 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 and is recognised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as a leader in the international environmental movement. 
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April 29th, 1929 in Oak Lake  /  Died:   Nov 27th, 2015
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