The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Dr. Robert Musil

 

"Stopping Global Warming: Signs of Hope"

Friday, 13th November 2009 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 p.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
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by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only
 

Robert K. Musil, Ph.D., M.P.H., L.H.D., Senior Fellow at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University; Former Executive Director and CEO, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nobel Peace Prize, 1985

Robert K. Musil, PhD, MPH, LHD was the longest-serving Executive Director and CEO of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize for Peace. During his tenure (1992-2006), he nearly tripled PSR’s membership, budget, and staff. He is a graduate of Yale and Northwestern Universities and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and has been a Visiting Honorary Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and of Pembroke College, Cambridge University. He was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) from Mitchell College in May, 2009.

Currently, Dr. Musil is Senior Fellow at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, School of Public Affairs, American University and Adjunct Professor in the School of International Studies. Dr. Musil is also a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting Fellow and widely sought as a campus lecturer. He has also been voted as the Leonard R. Mellman Visiting Fellow for 2009 by Temple University.

Dr. Musil specializes in contemporary global security, sustainability, and health, as well as strategic communications and organizational development. He is the author of the new, highly-acclaimed Hope for a Heated Planet: How Americans are Fighting Global Warming and for a Better Future (Rutgers University Press, 2009).

Dr. Musil helped launch PSR’s environmental program in the early 1990’s and led campaigns for safe and affordable drinking water, clean air, and to prevent toxic pollution and global climate change. As a member of the Green Group, representing the nation’s thirty-four largest environmental groups, Dr. Musil met with leading public figures including President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, and numerous cabinet members and Congressional leaders. He also initiated PSR’s U.S.-Mexico Border Project in El Paso and Juarez, Mexico and has represented PSR at international environment negotiations in Montreal, Kyoto, Johannesburg, Geneva, and elsewhere.

Dr. Musil is also a former Army Captain who taught communications and policy at the Defense Information School, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. From 1978-1992, Dr. Musil was the Executive Producer and host of "Consider the Alternatives" a weekly radio program syndicated to over 150 stations with 2,000,000 listeners. He is a two-time winner of the Armstrong Award for Excellence in Radio Broadcasting.