Leonard Hirsch

Dr. Hirsch is International Liaison at the Smithsonian Institution.  His responsibilities include articulation and support of the scientific programs of the Smithsonian.  He is also a well-known political economist, whose teaching and work includes global environmental economics and politics; natural resources and development; and institutional development.  He also teaches in the International Transactions Master's program at the George Mason University in Virginia. Dr. Hirsch is a member of the United States-Asia Environmental Partnership working group on biodiversity; the working group for international coordination and development of the Global Change Research component of the USG Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences. Dr. Hirsch received his Bachelor of Arts in International Relations in 1976 from Pomona College; his Masters of Arts in 1978, and his PHD in Political Science from Northwestern University in 1980.

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04/07/2008