Pierre-Marc Johnson (Co-Chair)

Co-chair Pierre-Marc Johnson is a medical doctor, lawyer and the former Premier of Quebec, Canada. He teaches law at McGill Law School, and does research at the McGill Center for Medicine, Ethics and Law on the corporate management of environmental issues and liability. From 1976 to 1987, he served on the Quebec National Assembly. He is Vice Chair of the Prime Minister's National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy of Canada and chairs its Foreign Policy committee. He was a Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED).

Dr. Johnson frequently writes journal articles and speaks at conferences and seminars dealing with environmental and economic issues. In his article on "The State of the Earth on the Eve of the Rio Summit," he outlined the new economic and environmental realities facing citizens in the next century.

"The twin challenges of development and environment will force us to question some of our values, and to ask ourselves why we consume so much. We are far from what Maurice Strong has called 'sophisticated modesty'....The first nations to adapt to the new environmental realities of the 1990s will be the winners of the beginning of the next century."