Today, the YES Campaign Office asks you to join with us in celebrating the
life and times of Prof. MS Swaminathan on his 78th birthday. Prof.
Swaminathan is, among many other things, a founding member of the YES
Campaign Organizing Committee, and a firm supporter of the global campaign
for youth employment. Happy Birthday, Professor!
Prof. M S Swaminathan has been acclaimed by TIME magazine as one of the
twenty most influential Asians of the 20th century and one of the only
three from India, the other two being Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath
Tagore. He has been described by the United Nations Environment Programme
as "the Father of Economic Ecology" and by Javier Perez de Cuellar,
Secretary General of the United Nations, as "a living legend who will go
into the annals of history as a world scientist of rare distinction".
He was Chairman of the UN Science Advisory Committee set up in 1980 to take
follow-up action on the Vienna Plan of Action. He has also served as
Independent Chairman of the FAO Council and President of the International
Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
Read more at,
http://www.mssrf.org/msswaminathan.html
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