Angela Cropper (c. 1946 – 12 November 2012) of
Trinidad and Tobago served as assistant secretary-general and deputy executive director of the
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She was appointed to this position by
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon (; ; born 13 June 1944) is a South Korean politician and diplomat who served as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations between 2007 and 2016. Prior to his appointment as secretary-general, Ban was his country's Minister ...
in November 2007.
Prior to her appointment as ASG, Cropper was an independent
senator
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
in the
Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago and president of the
Cropper Foundation, a
not-for-profit
A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...
charitable organization committed to sustainable development. She shared the 2005
Zayed
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan ( ar, زَايِد بِن سُلْطَان آل نَهْيَان, Zāyed bin Sulṭān Āl Nahyān; 6 May 1918 – 2 November 2004) was an Emirati politician, statesman, and philanthropist who served as ...
International Prize for "environmental action leading to positive change in society", along with
Emil Salim, the former Indonesian minister for population and the environment.
She served in various capacities with the Caribbean Community and Common Market Secretariat (
CARICOM) and the
World Conservation Union (IUCN). She was interim Executive Secretary of the United Nations
Convention on Biological Diversity and Senior Adviser on Environment and Development with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
She also served on a number of international advisory boards, including the CARICOM Task Force on Functional Cooperation, the Council of the
United Nations University, the European Union High-Level Panel on Sustainability, the Board of Trustees of the
Stockholm Environment Institute, and the External Advisory Group to the
World Bank on the implementation of its forest strategy. She was a Visiting Distinguished Fellow with the
Woods Hole Research Center, and a Visiting Distinguished Fellow and McCluskey Fellow with the
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
She held degrees in development economics from Trinidad and Tobago, and in and international law from
Barbados.
Family
Angela Cropper's only child, a son, Devanand, died of heart disease in 1998. Her husband, John, her sister (Lynette Lithgow) and her mother (Maggie Lee) were murdered in December 2001 at the family home in Cascade,
Port of Spain
Port of Spain (Spanish: ''Puerto España''), officially the City of Port of Spain (also stylized Port-of-Spain), is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago and the third largest municipality, after Chaguanas and San Fernando. The city has a municip ...
, in an apparent robbery. Two men, Lester Pitman and Daniel Agard, were convicted on 14 July 2004, and sentenced to death. Lester Pitman's sentence was later reduced to 40 years' imprisonment.
Pitman to serve 40 years
'' Trinidad Express'', December 18, 2013
References
External links
Cropper's UN profile
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1940s births
2012 deaths
Trinidad and Tobago officials of the United Nations
Trinidad and Tobago diplomats
Members of the Senate (Trinidad and Tobago)
United Nations Environment Programme
21st-century Trinidad and Tobago women politicians
21st-century Trinidad and Tobago politicians
Trinidad and Tobago women diplomats