Speakers
Ms. Evelyn M. Hurwich, Esq.
President, Circumpolar Conservation Union
Ms. Hurwich is a human ecologist (College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine) and attorney (University of California, Berkeley) who has specialized in polar affairs since 1989. Until 1991, she served as Associate Director and Counsel to The Antarctica Project, a Washington DC-based nonprofit, where she successfully worked to defeat a Minerals Treaty for Antarctica and achieve instead the negotiation and signing of an Environmental Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty.
In 1993, convinced of the need for a new organization to address international Arctic issues she founded the Circumpolar Conservation Union as a project of the Tides Foundation. Ms. Hurwich served as the Arctic reporter for the Yearbook of International Environmental Law from 1993 through 1997, and participated in the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy and the Arctic Council, as a nongovernmental member of the United States delegation for many years, until 2000, when CCU was officially accredited as an observer.
