Richard E. Benedick

Who is Richard E. Benedick?

Richard Elliot Benedick is President of the National Council for Science and the Environment. He is a former diplomat and was chief United States negotiator to the Montreal Protocol on protection of the ozone layer. He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy.

Ambassador Richard Benedick has played a major role in global environmental affairs as chief U.S. negotiator and a principal architect of the historic Montreal Protocol on protection of the ozone layer, and as Special Advisor to Secretaries-General of both the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and the International Conference on Population and Development. After serving several years on Battelle’s International Advisory Board, he became in 1998 Deputy Director in the Environmental and Health Sciences Division at theirWashington D.C. office of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and since 2001 is Senior Advisor to the PNNL-University of Maryland Joint Global Change Research Institute.

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