Ambassador Richard Benedick
Battelle Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific-Northwest National Laboratory and National Council on Science and the Environment
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 (Rio de Janeiro, 1992) and the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994). After serving several years on Battelle’s International Advisory Board, in 1998 he became Deputy Director in the Environmental and Health Sciences Division at their Washington D.C. office of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and since 2001 is Senior Advisor to Battelle’s Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland. Since 1994 Dr. Benedick has been President of the National Council for Science and the Environment. He has lectured at more than 50 universities and professional bodies, serves on several boards, and is consulted by international agencies, governments, foundations and industry. He has organized and/or presided over numerous international conferences and negotiations. A career diplomat, Benedick served in Iran, Pakistan, Paris, Bonn, and Athens. As Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, he supervised policy formation and international negotiations. Previously, he headed policy divisions at State Department. Benedick is author of over 120 publications. He holds an A.B. summa cum laude from Columbia, an M.A. in economics from Yale, a doctorate in international finance from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, and was Evans Fellow at Oxford University in metaphysical poetry.
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