Enjoy the HCC Annual Dinner Meeting with Dr. Cristian Samper, MA89, PhD92
Date: Sunday, June 7, 2015
Time: 5:00 p.m. Reception
5:45 p.m. Dinner
Location: Evanston Golf Club
4401 Dempster St., Skokie
Join Harvard Club Members for the
2015 Annual Dinner Meeting of
The Harvard Club of Chicago
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Featuring Dr. Cristián Samper, MA '89, PhD '92
President and CEO, Wildlife Conservation Society
Member, Harvard University Board of Overseers
Please join the Harvard Club of Chicago for dinner and its 2015 Annual Meeting featuring Dr. Cristián Samper, MA '89, PhD '92, President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society and Member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.
Dr. Samper, a scientist and an international authority on conservation biology and environmental policy, joined the Wildlife Conservation Society in April 2012 as President and CEO. As head of WCS, he leads the world’s preeminent science-based conservation organization, which includes the Bronx Zoo, New York Aquarium, Central Park Zoo, Prospect Park Zoo, Queens Zoo and conservation projects in 65 nations and all the world’s oceans.
Dr. Samper joined WCS after serving as Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC since 2003. In that role, Dr. Samper ran the largest natural history collection in the world, with more than 126 million specimens and artifacts. During his tenure at the Smithsonian, Dr. Samper: reinvigorated the research staff by hiring new curators to replace retiring staff; established an endowed fellowship program; built major new collections, storage facilities, and laboratories; and raised more than $150 million to support new long-term exhibitions and programs, including the Encyclopedia of Life and the Sant Ocean Hall. Samper was Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian from March 2007 until July 2008, when he returned to the Museum of Natural History.
Before moving to Washington, Dr. Samper was deputy director and staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama from 2001 to 2003. Further, Dr. Samper served as director of the environment division of the Foundation for Higher Education in Colombia in the early 1990s and was the moving force behind establishing a network of private reserves in that country.
Born in San José, Costa Rica and raised in Colombia, Dr. Samper studied biology at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá and earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in biology from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Derek Bok prize for excellence in teaching.
Dr. Samper was elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers in 2009.
There will be a short business meeting during the evening to elect officers and directors of the Harvard Club for the coming year.
Event Details:
Date: Sunday, June 7, 2015
Time: 5:00 p.m. - Registration
5:45 p.m. - Dinner
7:00 p.m. - Talk
Location: Evanston Golf Club, 4401 Dempster St., Skokie
Dress Code: Business Casual (no jeans on the second floor of the EGC.)
Cost: Cash Bar; Choice of entree (at the end of your ticket order
you will be able to indicate your dinner preference(s):
chicken, salmon or vegetarian).
Members & Guests: $85 per person
Non-Members: $100 per person
Non-Member Incentive: $110 per person
(Incls. one-year Regular Club membership)
Decade (College ’05-14): $65 per person
Patrons: $200 per person
Patron pricing includes assigned seating at preferred tables, as well
as all alcoholic beverages. Patron pricing subsidizes Decade Group
members and Dr. Samper’s travel costs. $105 is a tax deductible
donation to the Harvard Club.
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