Webre comes from a family which settled in Louisiana in the 17th century.[10] One of his parents is Cuban and Alfred Webre was raised in Cuba.[11]
[edit] Education
Webre entered Yale University in 1960 and graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Administration Honors. His interest in law brought him to continue his education and to graduate from Yale Law School with a Juris Doctor in International law in 1967.[5] While studying at Yale Law School, he was also an Assistant in Instruction at the Economics Department of the U.S. Federal Taxation at Yale University (1965-1967). In 1967-1968, Webre traveled to Montevideo, Uruguay and became a Fulbright Scholar in Economic Integration.[5] In 1993, he entered the University of Texas at Brownsville and graduated with a Master of Education in Counseling in 1997.[5]
[edit] Early career
Webre became an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, in New York City, in 1968. His responsibilities were international finance, tax, and litigation practice for investment banking, corporate, and public sector clients. In 1970, he joined the New York City Environmental Protection Administration as the General Counsel and Assistant Administrator.[12] He designed and enforced environmental standards for air, water, noise pollution, and solid waste management. In 1973, he went to work as a consultant for the Ford Foundation’s Public Interest Environmental Law Program in New York City.[12] He was in charge of evaluation and program recommendations in public interest environmental law program for grantees including Natural Resources Defense Council and Environmental Defense Fund. In 1977, he joined Stanford Research Institute (SRI International) in Menlo Park, California, as a futurist for the Center for the Study of Social Policy.[4][12] His responsibilities were the studies in alternative futures, innovation diffusion, and social policy applications for clients including the Carter White House Extraterrestrial Communications Study [5][12], the National Science Foundation, U.S. Congress (Office of Technology Assessment), the U.S. Department of Energy, and the State of California (Energy Plan).[citation needed]
[edit] Later career
Webre was a member of the Governor's Emergency Taskforce on Earthquake Preparedness for the state of California between 1980 & 1982.[citation needed] Between 1982-1987, he was a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) Delegate at the United Nations in New York.[citation needed] He was involved with the Communications Coordination Committee for the United Nations, with the UNISPACE Outer Space Conference (Vienna) and involved with the United Nations Second Special Session on Disarmament.[5] In 1983, Webre joined the New York State Legislative Institute as Senior Fellow.[citation needed] He spent time on issues of public policy studies and legislative initiatives for the New York State legislature as well as the development of Graduate School of Political Management.[citation needed] In 1986, he became President of Legal Access Worldwide (L.A.W.) an international legal access and litigation management firm.[citation needed] In 1987, Webre produced and hosted "The Instant of Cooperation", the first live radio broadcast between USA and the then Soviet Union, carried live by Gosteleradio and NPR satellite on WBAI-FM.[5][13] In 1996, he was an elected delegate to the Texas Democratic Presidential Convention in Dallas, Texas.
In 2000, he was a presenter at the Presidential Forum on Off-Planet Cultures Policy at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California.[citation needed] Since 2002, he is the host of "The Monday Brown Bagger", a public affairs radio talk show on Coop Radio CFRO 102.7 FM in Vancouver, British Columbia.[5][13][14] He is a founding director of Canada's No Weapons in Space Campaign (NOWIS) established in 2002.[citation needed] In 2004, he created the Campaign for Cooperation in Space (CCIS), an international organization where he works with others to prevent the weaponization of space and promote the transformation of the war economy into a peaceful, cooperative space exploration industry.[citation needed] In March 8, 2004, Webre attended the Council of Canadians public forum at the Maritime Labour Centre in Vancouver.[15] On March 14, 2005 Webre joined the editorial and advisory team for Peace Media.[13] On February 16, 2007, Webre said that the 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile test occurred in order to stop the United States from proliferating weapons in space.[8]
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