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Maurice Frederick Strong, (April 29, 1929 – November 27, 2015) was a Canadian businessman specialising in oil and mineral resources, and diplomat who represented Canada as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations.〔http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rGxIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xYIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2928,8434969 Article in The Vindicator June 30, 2000〕 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〔http://www.canadasworld.ca/timeline/19841993〕 and was recognised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as a leader in the international environmental movement.〔http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/report_of_maurice_strong_environmental_dialogue.pdf〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Short Biography )〕 He died at the age of 86 in 2015. ==Childhood and youth== Maurice Strong was a child during the Great Depression, enduring serious poverty. His father was laid off at the beginning of the Depression era and thereafter supported his family on odd jobs; his mother succumbed to mental illness and died in a mental hospital. He was born in Oak Lake, Manitoba, a town on the Canadian prairies on the mainline of the Canadian Pacific Railway. He is said to be related to Anna Louise Strong.〔 Strong later said that growing up during the Depression radicalized him and that he considered himself to be "a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology."〔"WHO IS MAURICE STRONG? The adventures of Maurice Strong & Co. illustrate the fact that nowadays you don’t have to be a household name to wield global power", ''National Review'', September 1, 1997〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maurice Strong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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