From Fidel Castro to Shirley MacLaine:
Maurice Strong's Network

Date: 26 April 2025

Data source: Strong, Maurice (2001) Where on Earth are We Going? Vintage Canada, ISBN: 0-676-97364-7
Dataset: Selchow, Sabine. Maurice Strong’s network: a structured database of individuals referenced in his autobiography, EUI, HEC, Research Data, 2025 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/92985
Funded: Part of a European Research Council (ERC)-grant, ECOINT, Grant No 885285

Maurice Strong (1929–2015) was a Canadian businessman in the extractive industries who also held key roles within the United Nations and global environmental governance, such as Secretary-General of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). He was known for his networking skills.

This visualization captures the individuals mentioned in his book Where on Earth are We Going?, published in 2001. Each rectangle in the below grid represents a page of the book. The grey number is the page number. Each square in the grid represents a person mentioned on that page. Colors indicate gender (blue=male; red=female). Chapter openings are marked with labels (e.g., “Ch.1”). The numbers behind the names in the result box are the page numbers the person is mentioned on.

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