The biography (CV) of Victor Rabinowitch is the last that we have received for publishing in this NEWSLETTER. We still think that having a larger and more intimate knowledge of each other will help the Council to be more effective in attaining future goals. Please, take a few minutes to copy the one in your file and mail it to Jerry. You might be interested to know that Vic's resume was used in placing his name in nomination for president of Brown University. Vic's plan, however, is to return to Washington at the end of the year.

Walter Beach is now a member of the Marjorie Merriweather Post Foundation - a - nice addition to his CV when we get it.

Walter Beach, treasurer, suggested that Jim Leonard, chairman, talk with Adelaide Schlafiy about how the endowment might be increased.

A suggestion was made to form UNU clubs at universities.
The "Advancing knowledge for Human Security and Development: UNU Strategic Plan, 2000" was reviewed and discussed by those who had received an advance copy. Council members' comments would be welcome to this carefully worded 36 pages in great detail. Jim Leonard welcomed this report as a good sign of organizational evolution.
Michael Witunski wondered if the UNU could become a "doner driven' organization, Can the UNU better integrate/synthesize the Parts .of its work?

Harlan Cleveland suggested that the UNU Institute of Advanced Studies should do this interaction.  He stressed that integration is the key. Most of our problems today are multi-disciplinary, multi-regional, and inter-institutional and cannot be addressed by specialist groups and disciplinary studies.
Michael Witunski suggested subjects like biotechnology in agriculture.
Jacques Fomerand reported that the Secretary General will treat the UNU as a think tank that provides timely information - thus the UNU will become more of a virtual Universe focusing on policy research and analysis.

Senior Vice President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is looking for his next challenge. Victor Rabinowitch was trained as an ecologist and received his advanced degrees (M,S. and PhD.) from the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he had the unique opportunity to get his doctorate in the unlikely combination of zoology and international relations.
His concern with the problems associated with the impact of science on society has been extensive. For more than thirty years he has been an active participant in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, thus being involved with the two major areas of Pugwash concern: World Peace and International Development.
For over twenty-five years Victor was associated with the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council (NAS/NRC) and its programs relating to science, technology and international development.
In 1979 he was a member of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Confemnce on Science  and Technology for Development.
From 1970 to 1981 he held the position of Director of the Academy's Board On Science and  Technology for Development, and in 1981 was appointed as Executive :Director of the Office of  International Affaires of the National Research Council. He served concurrently as the Director of the NAS Committee on International Security and Arms Control from 1985 to 1987. Dr. Rabinowitch was honored as the NAS Staff Member of the Year for 1982.
From 1990 to' 1997 'Dr. Rabinowitch was a member of :the Council of the United Nations University.
In October 1990 he was named Vice President for Programs of the John D. and Catherine T.  MacArthur Foundation. In this capacity he has been responsible for management of all aspects of the Foundation except investments but including program development, staff, budget and Board relations. In the past few years Dr. Rabinowitch has been actively involved in the restructuring of the MacArthur Foundation's grant program and in the implementation of the new structure.

Current Membership and Affiliations:
Advisory Committee on. International Science; American Association for the Advancement of  Science (AAAS):Chair, Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering, AAAS;  International START Secretariat; Board, Overseas Development Council; Board, Marlboro  College; Board, The Energy Foundation; Board of Advisors, Student Pugwash; Council on Foreign Relations; Chicago Council on Foreign Relations; Pacific Science Association (lifetime); The New York Academy of Science; Economic Club of Chicago; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Association for the Advancement of Agricultural Sciences in Africa; Federation of American Scientists, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology.

Publications:
International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICI'E): Lessons from History, 4/85;  Views on Science, Technology and Development (with Eugene Rabinowitch), 1975; The Role of Experience in the Development and Retention of Food Preferences in Zebra Finches. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, 1969; International Biological Program, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1965; Biology in EURATOM.

* Future Mind Jerome Clayton Glenn 1989

At the invitation of the Millennium Central European Node and with funding from Palackey University and the U.S. Embassy in Prague, Jerry Glenn addressed the conference Towards Sustainable Development" in Olomouc, Czech Republic on the 15 global challenges selected from the '1999 State of the Future'. In addition to members. of the Czech and Slovakian  Academy of Sciences, about 3O environmentally oriented members of NGOs' from 17 countries  of the former USSR were in attendance.
He than went to Bratislava and talked with members of the Slovakian Institute of Forecasting: National Academy of Science and then to the Slovakian Society of Future Studies. Here he found an interest in creating a Tele-Slovakia web site to connect Slovakians overseas with the development process in Slovakia. He also met with the chairman of the Parlimentary Committee on the Environment who wanted to continue explorations on the Millennium Projects' studies to counter transnational crime. Representatives of both the Czech and Slovak governments will give copies of the "199g. State of the. Future to their heads of state as background referee material for their speeches to the United Nations Millennium Summit in September.
Then in early June Glenn went to Turku; Finland, as one of the International Board Members of the Finnish Futures Academy (chaired by former DG of UNESCO, Federico Mayor) to review their plans to improve educational standards for futures research and to give several talks at conferences on futures research and to give several talks at conferences on futures research methodology.

The next two pages of this Newsletter's printed version presented the UNU center and UNU research and Training Centres and Programms as they appear on the UNU web site.