William Yancey Brown

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name = William Yancey Brown


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birth_date = 1948
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William Y. Brown (1948) is a zoologist and attorney, a former science advisor to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt, a former president of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii, and the current president of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Biography

Brown was born in Artesia, California, in 1948, and graduated from high school in Brazil at the Escola Americana do Recife. He later graduated from the University of Virginia (BA 1969, Biology, with highest distinction), Johns Hopkins University (MAT, 1970), the University of Hawaii where he was a NSF Fellow (PhD, 1973, Zoology), and Harvard Law School (JD, 1977).

Professional Life

From 1973 -74, Brown was Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. During law school, he held summer and consulting positions with the Environmental Protection Agency (1974), Council on Environmental Quality (1975), and the Department of the Interior (1976-77).

In 1977, Brown was appointed Executive Secretary of the U.S. Endangered Species Scientific Authority, overseeing treaty commitments for wildlife trade. In 1980, he was appointed Executive Secretary of the International Convention Advisory Commission, with similar responsibilities. Brown left government in 1981 with change in administration, joining the Environmental Defense Fund where he served as Senior Scientist and Attorney and Acting Executive Director until 1985.

In 1985, Brown joined Waste Management, Inc. and was Vice President for Environmental Planning and Programs and the first Chairman of the firm's Executive Environmental Committee. Brown left WMI in October 1994 and worked as a consultant, first with Hagler Bailly Consulting as a Principal and later with the World Wildlife Fund as a Senior Fellow.

William Brown served with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt as Science Advisor from April 1997 until January 2001. There, he advocated, wrote and negotiated executive orders for coral reef protection and invasive species management issued by President William Clinton and orders of Secretary Bruce Babbitt establishing marine national wildlife refuges for Navassa Island off Haiti and Palmyra_Atoll and Kingman Reef south of Hawaii. He played a key role in developing and protecting from repeal key provisions of the Endangered Species Act.

On leaving government with a change in administration, he served as Vice President for Oceans and Science Policy at the National Audubon Society before being recruited by the Bishop Museum, where he served as President and CEO from October 2001 to January 2007. He is credited with stabilizing the museum both financially and politically, improving attendance and successfully undertaking several expansions and renovations. He was appointed President and CEO of the Academy of Natural Sciences in February 2007.

Affiliations

William Brown is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Sigma, and the District of Columbia Bar, and fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He is a member of the oversight committee for the Division on Earth and Life Studies of the National Academies. He is Chairman of the Global Heritage Fund, a director of the Wistar Institute, and a director of the Natural Science Collections Alliance. He is former Chairman of the Ocean Conservancy, and a former director of various other boards.

elected published works

* 2006: " [http://www.kahea.org/nwhi/pdf/Sanctuary_a_victory_long_in_making_OpEd_HA_20060618.pdf | Sanctuary a victory long in making] " (Commentary in The Honolulu Adversizer)
* 2004: "Bishop Museum Final Guidance for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990." www.bishopmuseum.org
* 2001: "Promise and Peril: Biotechnology's Potential for Environmental Quality." Environmental Forum, September/October 2001, Vol. 8, Number 5.
* 2000: Concluding address "The Way Forward." Conference on Best Management Practices for Preventing and Controlling Invasive Alien Species. Cape Town, South Africa. February 22. Symposium Proceedings: 285-6. Working for Water Programme, Cape Town, South Africa.
* 1995. "Corporate Programs to Understand and Conserve Biological Diversity." Report of the National Biological Service, Department of the Interior.
* 1995: "Science and the Endangered Species Act". W.Y. Brown and other members of the National Research Council Committee on Scientific Issues in the Endangered Species Act. National Academy Press.
* 1993: "Corporate Leadership." In: Joyce K. Berry and John C. Gordon. (eds.) Environmental Leadership: Developing Effective Skills and Styles. Island Press.
* 1991. "Environmental Leadership: The Search for Priorities and Power." Environmental Law: Vol. 21, No. 4. Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College.
* 1990. "Waste Reduction: Policy and Practice." W.Y. Brown, Waste Management, Inc. and Mary Edgar, Piper & Marbury. John Wiley and Sons.
* 1985. "Eliminating Tax Subsidies to Protect Critical Habitat for Endangered Species and Other Natural Areas: A Report and Model Legislation." Environmental Defense Fund.
* 1984. "Arctic Environmental Quality." Chapter 9. In: W.E. Westermeyer and K.M. Shusterich, (Eds.) United States Arctic Interests. Springer-Verlag: New York,
* 1981. "Acid Rain and Wildlife Conservation." Cong. Record, Oct. 6, 1981, S1112-S1114.
* 1976. "The breeding of sooty terns and brown noddies on Manana Island, Hawaii." Condor 78: 61-66.
* 1975. "Parental feeding of young sooty terns (Sterna fuscata (L)) and brown noddies (Anous stolidus (L)) in Hawaii. J. Animal Ecology 44: 731-742.

References

* Hoover, Will, "Bishop Museum goes headhunting" honoluluadvertiser.com January 2, 2007 June 26, 2008
* McDermott, John, "Bishop Museum will work its magic on musty Hawaiian Hall." Pacific Business News August 25, 2006 June 26, 2008
* McDermott, John, "High-energy team has Bishop Museum on a roll." Pacific Business News August 25, 2006 June 26, 2008
* Pala, Christopher, "A Struggle to Preserve a Hawaiian Archipelago and Its Varied Wildlife." New York Times December 19, 2006.
* Pala, Christopher, "A Struggle to Preserve a Hawaiian Archipelago and Its Varied Wildlife." New York Times 25 June 2008
* Pala, Christopher, "Paradise Almost Lost: Hawaii's Bishop Grapples with NAGPRA" Museum March/April 2008.
* Pala, Christopher, "Paradise Almost Lost: Hawaii's Bishop Grapples with NAGPRA" American Associations of Museum 25 June 2008 < http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/nagpra.cfm>
* "Academy President William Y. Brown" Academy of Natural Sciences, June 9, 2008 June 25, 2008
* "Endangered Species Scientific Authority Gets First Executive Secretary and Charter" U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service August 5, 1977 June 26, 2008 < http://www.fws.gov/news/historic/1977/19770805.pdf>
* "What We Do - Board of Trustees" Global Heritage Fund June 26, 2008 < http://www.globalheritagefund.org/what/index.html>

ee also

* Academy_of_Natural_Sciences
* Bernice_P._Bishop_Museum
* Endangered Species Act
* Global Heritage Fund
* United_States_National_Academies
* United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges

External links

* [http://www.ansp.org/about/president.php Academy President William Y. Brown]
* [http://www.ansp.org Main page, Academy of Natural Sciences]
* [http://dels.nas.edu/dels/committee.shtml Earth & Life Studies at the National Academies]
* [http://www.globalheritagefund.org Global Heritage Fund]

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