John Matuszak:  

I am enjoying retired life. I returned to a passion on mine in collage and am making ceramic sculpture and functional ware, working at the Baltimore Clayworks. I also continue to utilize the expertise I developed professionally. This spring I lectured to graduate students at the University of Massachusetts - Boston and am giving a lecture at the University of Virginia. Last Fall I lectured - on line - to graduate classes of Syracuse and Denver Universities and to class at Aquinas. I continue to serve as a Fellow with the UMass-Boston McCormick School of Public Polic and the Global Council for Science and The Environment and serve on the steering committee of the Earth Observation for Ecosystem Accounting (EO4EA) initiative. I remain active promoting Environmental and Ecosystem accounting and the UN Statistic's System for Environmental and economic Accounting. My wife and I have been traveling domestically and look forward to travel again internationally as restriction related to the pandemic are lifted. I left the U.S. Department of State, in 2018, where I had worked since 2002 as the Division Chief for Sustainable Development and Multilateral Affairs and later as senior adviser on the Science-Policy interface, I led a team responsible for U.S. engagement with the UN Environment Program, the Commission on Sustainable Development, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the UN Economic Commission for Europe - Committee on Environmental Policy, the Organization for...Expand for more