NEWS RELEASES
APPOINTMENTS TO INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
June 13, 2002 (11:25 a.m. EDT) No. 67
APPOINTMENTS TO INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE BOARD OF
GOVERNORS
Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham today announced the appointments of Gerald (Ged) R. Davis and Chee Yoke Ling to
the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
The IDRC is a public corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help developing-country scientists and
communities find solutions to social, economic and environmental problems through research. By bringing together people,
institutions and ideas, the Centre seeks to ensure that the benefits of this research will be shared equitably among all its
partners in both the northern and the southern hemispheres.
The IDRC is directed by a 21-member Board of Governors comprising 11 Canadian members and 10 non-Canadian
members.
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Biographical notes on the appointees are attached.
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Gerald (Ged) R. Davis, of the United Kingdom, is Vice President (Global Business Environment) at Shell International
Limited, and head of Shell's Scenarios Team. For more than 20 years he has been engaged in developing scenarios to
improve Shell's energy planning and investment. He has worked on the development and use of energy plans for the future
at industry, national and global levels. In 1996-97 he was Director of the World Business Council for Sustainable
Development's Global Scenarios 2000-2050. From 1997 to 2000, he was the facilitator and main author of 2000-2100
emissions scenarios for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has wide experience in leading multi-disciplinary scenario teams addressing long-term global developments. Mr. Davis has post-graduate degrees in Economics
and Engineering from the London School of Economics and Stanford University, California, and graduated in Mining
Engineering from Imperial College, London. He presents widely on a diverse set of topics and has published a range of
articles, including "Energy for Planet Earth," the title paper in the Scientific American special issue on energy, and more
recently, "Foreseeing a Refracted Future" and "Corporate Governance, Sustainable Development and the Jazz of Shared
Visions."
Chee Yoke Ling, of Malaysia, is a legal adviser to Third World Network, an international research and advocacy
organization with its secretariat in Penang, Malaysia. Trained at the University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur) and the
University of Cambridge (U.K.), she has been a law lecturer at the University of Malaya, and was the Executive Secretary
of Friends of the Earth Malaysia. Since 1993, Chee Yoke Ling has been with Third World Network, focusing on research
and advocacy in various United Nations' negotiations on environment and development. She has worked on biosafety
issues since 1990, participating actively in the negotiations of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. She also works with
officials and non-governmental organizations from a number of developing countries with respect to national biosafety
policies and laws.
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