At its meeting on March 26, 2025, the CFP Board of Directors passed a resolution to create an endowment to honor Board Chair Emeritus Warren Muir for his many contributions to our organization.
Warren began his journey with CFP by hosting teens from Northern Ireland in 1994. He became President of the organization in 1997 and was one of the people responsible for bringing CFPNI’s peace model to Cyprus. While he has been recognized for his many achievements in science, CFP is grateful for the opportunity to honor his legacy in peacebuilding.
Over the years, Warren has hosted 20 teen pairs and is still in touch with many of them.
Warren is a Ph.D. chemist with post-doctoral studies in Epidemiology/Public Health at The Johns Hopkins University. He spent 42 years in the nation’s capital working on the interface of science and public policy in several capacities. For ten years, he served as a senior staff member in the Executive Office of the President, Council on Environmental Quality in the Nixon and Ford Administrations and as the first director of the USEPA Office of Toxic Substances in the Carter Administration. After that, he founded and led the Hampshire Research Institute, an independent environmental research and data analysis firm, for 18 years while serving on the faculty of The Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. His last 14 years in Washington were served as Executive Director of the Division of Earth and Life Studies at the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine/National Research Council.