Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Angela Cropper (c. 1946 – 12 November 2012) of Trinidad and Tobago served as Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She was appointed to this position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in November 2007.Prior to her appointment as ASG, Cropper was an independent member of the Senate in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago and President of the Cropper Foundation, a not-for-profit charitable organization committed to sustainable development. She shared the 2005 Zayed International Prize for "environmental action leading to positive change in society", along with Emil Salim, the former Indonesian minister for population and the environment.She served in various capacities with the Caribbean Community and Common Market Secretariat (CARICOM) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN). She was interim Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and Senior Adviser on Environment and Development with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).She also served on a number of international advisory boards, including the CARICOM Task Force on Functional Cooperation, the Council of the United Nations University, the European Union High-Level Panel on Sustainability, the Board of Trustees of the Stockholm Environment Institute and the External Advisory Group to the World Bank on the implementation of its forest strategy. She was a Visiting Distinguished Fellow with the Woods Hole Research Center and a Visiting Distinguished Fellow and McCluskey Fellow with the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.She held degrees in development economics from Trinidad and Tobago, and in and international law from Barbados."@en }
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- Angela_Cropper abstract "Angela Cropper (c. 1946 – 12 November 2012) of Trinidad and Tobago served as Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She was appointed to this position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in November 2007.Prior to her appointment as ASG, Cropper was an independent member of the Senate in the Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago and President of the Cropper Foundation, a not-for-profit charitable organization committed to sustainable development. She shared the 2005 Zayed International Prize for "environmental action leading to positive change in society", along with Emil Salim, the former Indonesian minister for population and the environment.She served in various capacities with the Caribbean Community and Common Market Secretariat (CARICOM) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN). She was interim Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and Senior Adviser on Environment and Development with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).She also served on a number of international advisory boards, including the CARICOM Task Force on Functional Cooperation, the Council of the United Nations University, the European Union High-Level Panel on Sustainability, the Board of Trustees of the Stockholm Environment Institute and the External Advisory Group to the World Bank on the implementation of its forest strategy. She was a Visiting Distinguished Fellow with the Woods Hole Research Center and a Visiting Distinguished Fellow and McCluskey Fellow with the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.She held degrees in development economics from Trinidad and Tobago, and in and international law from Barbados.".