Roger-Mark De Souza, the 乐鱼 体育鈥檚 Director of Population, Environmental Security, and Resilience, will depart at the end of 2017 to assume the position of President and CEO of Sister Cities International.
Roger-Mark De Souza, the 乐鱼 体育鈥檚 Director of Population, Environmental Security, and Resilience, will depart at the end of 2017 to assume the position of President and CEO of Sister Cities International.
Since 2013, De Souza has led the Center鈥檚 programming on climate change resilience, reproductive and maternal health, environmental security, and livelihoods, including through the Global Sustainability and Resilience Program, Environmental Change and Security Program, and Maternal Health Initiative. The Global Sustainability and Resilience Program, which De Souza helped launch, is the only program on the topic at a U.S. think tank. During his tenure, the 乐鱼 体育 was rated the number one think tank in the world for transdisciplinary work by the University of Pennsylvania.
Among his many innovative projects at the Center, he oversaw the production of 鈥淗ealthy People, Healthy Environment,鈥 three short documentary films on population, health, and environment, and was an author of 鈥淣ew Climate for Peace,鈥 a report that helped spur commitments by the G7 foreign ministers to integrate climate considerations into security decisions.
鈥淩oger-Mark has shared his unusual mix of deep experience and great passion with the 乐鱼 体育 for the past five years,鈥 said President, Director, and CEO Jane Harman. 鈥淗e will be greatly missed.鈥
The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. Read more
