Stephen Lewis (1937- ) started his career as an elected politician and broadcaster. He was Canada’s permanent representative to the UN (1984-88) and was UNICEF’s deputy executive director (1995-99). He was chair of the UN Committee which drafted UNPAAERD, as the Secretary-General’s special advisor on Africa, as chair of the first International Conference on Climate Change, as UNICEF’s special representative and its coordinator of the Graça Machel study on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children. He has served as consultant to UNAIDS, UNIFEM, and the ECA. In 2001, he was appointed the Secretary-General’s special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa. He was born in Canada and educated at the Universities of Toronto and British Columbia.