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

A data visualisation by Sabine Selchow | 2025

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.

Click here From Fidel Castro to Shirley MacLaine to open an interactive visualisation that captures the individuals mentioned in Strong's autobiographical book Where on Earth are We Going?, published in 2001.

You can:

• Filter the data by gender, nationality, number of mentions, and role (e.g., “UN official”, “Business actor”).

• Search by name.

• Hover over squares to see who is mentioned on each page.

Link: https://sabine-selchow.github.io/index.html

Used 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