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Session 2 - Paul Arthur Berkman - Brief Outlook

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Professor Paul Arthur Berkman is a science diplomat, applying, training and refining informed decisionmaking to balance national interests and common interests for the benefit of all on Earth across generations. He became a Visiting Professor at the University of California Los Angeles at the age of 23, after wintering the previous year in Antarctica on a SCUBA research expedition with Scripps Institution of Oceanography, leading him to all seven continents before the age of thirty. During the intervening years, Paul received his masters and doctorate as a National Science Foundation graduate fellow at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. A decade later, he wrote the textbook on Science Into Policy. As a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the University of Cambridge, he chaired the Antarctic Treaty Summit at the Smithsonian Institution in 2009, resulting in the first book on Science Diplomacy. Applying lessons of science diplomacy the following year, as Head of the Arctic Ocean Geopolitics Programme at the University of Cambridge, he co-directed the first formal NATO-Russia dialogue regarding Environmental Security in the Arctic Ocean, which became the title of an edited book with over 65,000 downloads. He also co-convened and chaired the 1st and 2nd International Dialogue on Science and Technology Advice in Foreign Ministries in Austria (2016) and France (2017). He currently coordinates the Arctic Options / Pan-Arctic Options projects (involving support from national science agencies in the United States, Russian Federation, Norway, France, China and Canada from 2013-2020). Prof. Berkman joined the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 2015 as Professor of Practice in Science Diplomacy and is Founding Director of the Science Diplomacy Center at Tufts University, training science diplomacy among university networks as well as national diplomatic academies and through the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). His common-interest building also is reflected most recently with the Baseline of Russian Arctic Laws (2019) and the emerging book series on Informed Decisionmaking for Sustainability. Among his other roles, Paul serves as an expert for the Diplomatic Academy of Armenia, Global Affairs Canada and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. For his international, interdisciplinary and inclusive (holistic) contributions at global-local levels, Prof. Berkman has been honoured with awards in the United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation, Norway, New Zealand and Japan. Paul is happily married with two daughters.