Elisabeth Mann

Elisabeth Veronika Mann Borgese, CM (April 24, 1918 – February 8, 2002) was an internationally recognized expert on maritime law and policy and the protection of the environment. She was one of the founding members – and for a long time the only female member – of the Club of Rome and worked as a university professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

At the age of 52, Mann Borgese had established herself as an international expert on the oceans. She was the initiator and organizer of the first conference on the law of the sea on Malta in 1970, with the title of "Pacem in Maribus" ("Peace in the Oceans"). From 1973 to 1982, Mann Borgese formed part of the expert group of the Austrian delegation during the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

At the age of 59, in 1977, Mann Borgese became Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, by invitation. She received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dalhousie in 1998, at the age of 80, and kept up her teaching duties until the age of 81. Mann Borgese died unexpectedly at the age of 83, during a skiing holiday in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Research and other non-fiction

• The Oceanic Circle: Governing the Seas as a Global Resource (1998), United Nations University Press: New York, ISBN 92-808-1013-8, LCCN 98-40090
• SEAFARM: The story of Aquaculture (1980) Harry N Abrams, NY
• The Drama of the Oceans (1975), ISBN 0-8109-0337-7
• The Ascent of Woman (1963)

Fiction

• "The Immortal Fish" (1957)
• "For Sale, Reasonable" (1959)
• "True Self" (1959)
• "Twin's Wail" (1959)
• To Whom it May Concern (1960)
• "My Own Utopia" (1961) (epilogue from The Ascent of Woman)