NEWS RELEASES
APPOINTMENTS TO IDRC BOARD OF GOVERNORS
August 30, 1996 No. 152
APPOINTMENTS TO IDRC BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy today announced the appointment of Dr. Dan
M. Martin and the reappointments of Sir Shridath Ramphal and Mrs. Marie-Angélique
Savané to the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre
(IDRC).
IDRC is a public corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help
developing countries find sustainable solutions to their economic, social and
environmental problems through research. IDRC is directed by a 21-member Board of
Governors who are appointed for four-year terms. The Board is international,
consisting of 11 Canadian members and 10 non-Canadian members.
Dr. Martin, who holds a Ph.D. in political science and international relations
from Princeton University, is currently director of the World Environment and
Resources Program of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He was
president of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation in New York city from 1984 to 1986.
From 1980 to 1984, he was President of the Cranbrook Educational Community, in
Bloomfields Hills, Michigan, and from 1972 to 1980, President of the Associated
Colleges of the Midwest in Chicago, Illinois. He is a board member of several
international environmental and cultural organizations.
A lawyer, Sir Shridath Ramphal is Co-chairperson of the Commission on Global
Governance, Chairperson of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral
Assistance and President of the International Steering Committee of the
Rockefeller Foundation's Program for Leadership in Environment and Development.
He was the Commonwealth Secretary-General from 1975 to 1990, and Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Justice and the Attorney-General of Guyana. He has been a
member of many international commissions including the World Commission on
Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission).
A sociologist, Mrs. Savané is currently Director of the Africa Division of the
United Nations Population Fund in New York. From 1990 to 1992 she was a special
advisor to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in
Geneva and from 1985 to 1988, Vice-President of the Society for International
Development in Rome. Founder and former editor-in-chief of the magazine Famille
et Développement, widely read in Francophone Africa, Mrs. Savané worked for 10
years as team leader with the United Nations Research Institute for Social
Development in Geneva. She has been a member of numerous committees, commissions
and associations including the Independent Commission for Global Governance and
the South Commission.
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