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priorities; and as director for the division of environmental law, Treaty and Law Department, Ministry ofForeign Affairs, People’s Republic of China. She represented China at negotiations for global environmentalconventions and at the Rio Conference on Environment and Development in 1992.Song Li holds an L.LM with a focus on Environmental Law from George Washington University, aCertificate in public international law from the Institute of Diplomacy of China, and a Masters in Frenchliterature from University Paris III.Alexander Likhotal (Russia / Switzerland)Green Cross International160a, route de Florissant1231 Conches Geneva, SwitzerlandAlexander Likhotal is currently president of Green Cross International. He received his Ph.Din Political Science in 1972 from the Institute of International Affairs in Moscow, the subject of his thesisbeing ”The Shaping of the British Security Policy”. He started his academic career as a lecturer at the MoscowState Institute of International Affairs, where he became senior research fellow at the Diplomatic Academy ofthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the USSR. In 1988 he became professor of political science and internationalrelations at the Diplomatic Academy, and in the same year was appointed vice-rector.During the wake of Gorbachev’s perestroika, being already a well known expert in the field of Europeansecurity, he received a proposal to become the chief analyst of NATO politics in the International Departmentof the Central Committee of the CSPU - one of the Soviet foreign policy co-ordination bodies. In 1991Alexander Likhotal was appointed deputy spokesman and adviser to the president of the USSR. Since then hehas been an advisor to Mr Gorbachev, founder of Green Cross, for many years.Elizabeth May (Canada)Green Party - Central Nova Office121 George StreetNew Glasgow B2H 2K7, CanadaElizabeth May is an environmentalist, writer, activist, and lawyer. She is the elected leaderof the Green Party of Canada since 2006. Prior to that, she served as executive director of the Sierra Clubof Canada since 1989. She is a former member of the Board of the International Institute of SustainableDevelopment and is former vice-chair of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.In 1999, Dalhousie University created a permanent chair in her honour, the Elizabeth May Chair in Women’sHealth & the Environment. She has received numerous awards, including the United Nations Global 500award and two honourary doctorates. She is the author of four books. In 2005 Elizabeth May was honouredto be appointed as an Officer to the Order of Canada.Oscar Motomura (Brazil)Amana-KeyAv. Nova Petrópolis, 3306709-125 Cotia/São Paulo, BrazilEarth Charter InitiativeHANDBOOK |57|