What is Maurice Strong?
[[File:Maurice Strong.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Strong in 2010]] '''Maurice F. Strong''' (April 29, 1929 &ndash; November 27, 2015)<ref>{{cite web | title=The World Mourns One of its Greats: Maurice Strong Dies, His Legacy Lives On | url=http://unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=26854&ArticleID=35597&l=en | access-date=2015-11-29 | archive-date=2016-02-20 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160220153127/http://unep.org/newscentre/default.aspx?DocumentID=26854&ArticleID=35597&l=en | url-status=dead }}</ref> was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] businessman and [[Diplomacy|diplomat]]. He represented [[Canada]] as Under-Secretary General of the [[United Nations]].<ref>https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rGxIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xYIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2928,8434969 Article in The Vindicator June 30, 2000</ref> 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|Chief Executive Officer]] of [[Petro-Canada]] from 1976 to 1978.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|author=Mike Williams|title=Strong warnings and long tunnels|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00c7r3x|access-date=June 9, 2011|newspaper=BBC|date=December 12, 2010|format=One Planet Radio interview}}{{Dead link|date=June 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He was President of the Council of the [[University for Peace]] from 1998 to 2006. Strong was born in [[Manitoba]], Canada. He died at the age of 86 on November 27, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/maurice-strong-climate-development-pioneer-dies-35463459|title=UN: Maurice Strong, Climate and Development Pioneer, Dies|publisher=[[ABC News]].com|access-date=November 28, 2015}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFA