BDC's Advisory Board   *  History

Part of history now,
in grateful thanks for the support they gave us, and for helping us get started in extending our
cooperating network, held together by common methodology, interacting, beyond original borders:

Chonam Ng, PhD (Lancaster) of the University of Hong Kong, was one of the leading conservationists in China, where he served as Chairman of the HK Conservancy Association.

Ernest Chung, PhD (California Institute of Technology), M.B.A, (UCLA), worked for Chevron, was a partner in a management consulting firm, and helped save a California park.

Robert Chipley, PhD (Cornell) served as Chief Ornithologist and Manager, Natural Heritage Programs, The Nature Conservancy.

Ben Brown, (PhD Texas A&M) grassland ecologist by training and former Director of the Texas Natural Heritage Program.

Philip Kissam, J.D. (Yale), was economist and professor of law who served, early in his career, with the Peace Corps in Africa and came to know biodiversity unlike and vastly greater than that in his native Long Island.

William D. Blair, Jr, former President and Chairman of the Board of The Nature Conservancy, and his wife, Jane C. Blair, who taught history, served on numerous NGO boards, self-described China enthusiast.

William D. Rogers, rose to be Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.

Way early, 1953, with wife Suki

And speaking of history,
here are, just for the record, some of our scientists from very early days in building the network:

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