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Director
Office of Sustainability Initiatives
University of Texas - Austin
1 University Station C1900
Austin, TX 78712
United States of America
Tel: (512) 471-2457
Email:
utexas.edu
Sherburne B. Abbott (Shere) recently joined University of Texas at Austin as Special Assistant to the Executive Vice President and Provost, Director of the Office of Sustainability Initiatives, and Senior Lecturer in the College of Natural Sciences. She is developing new university-wide, interdisciplinary research and education programs focused on sustainability challenges. Until December 2005, she was located in Washington DC, serving as Chief International Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where she directed the Office of International Initiatives and the Center for Science, Innovation and Sustainable Development. AAAS is the largest, non-governmental, multi-disciplinary scientific society in the world and publisher of the journal Science. Prior to this appointment she consulted on environmental science and sustainable development for private foundations, the World Bank, the Brookings Institution, and other non-governmental organizations. Until 2001, she worked at the National Academies' National Research Council over a 17 year period, serving in several capacities----Executive Director of the Board on Sustainable Development, where she directed the Sustainability Transition Study that produced the report Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability, and the Global Change Research Program; director of international organization programs for the Office of International Affairs; and Director of the Polar Research Board. She also served as Assistant Scientific Program Director of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, an independent federal agency, where she managed the research program and developed a model of environmental research for monitoring human impacts in Antarctica. She serves as a contributing editor of Environment magazine. She earned her bachelor's degree in biology from GoucherCollege and her master's degree in environmental science and natural resource policy from Yale University, where she was Dodge Fellow in Human - Animal Ecology.
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