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Nikita Fedorovich Glazovsky

Nikita Fedorovich Glazovsky
(1946 – 2005)

Nikita Glazovsky, was LEAD CIS Regional Program Director, a Professor of Geography, and Deputy Director, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences. He lectured for the World Bank, the European Summer University in Spain, Moscow State University and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In the early nineties he was the Deputy Minister for Environment Protection, Russian Federation. He was a member of High Ecological Council and the State Ecological Expertise Board of the Russian Federation. For ten years he was a member of the Advisory Board of the World Resources Institute. In 1997, he was elected a Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1998 to 2002 he was Chairman of the Federal Ecological Foundation for the Russian Federation. In 2000, he was elected a Vice-President of International Geographical Union.

N.F. Glazovsky authored 120 articles and publications devoted to biogeochemical cycles in the biosphere, assessment of critical ecological situations, protection of natural resources, environmental management and strategies for sustainable development. He also served on the editorial board of several magazines both in Russia and abroad. His doctoral degree in geographical sciences is from Moscow State University.

He was made an Honorary LEAD Fellow posthumously in 2010.