Portsmouth, NH - Today Citizens Advisers announced Dr. Vesela Veleva, social research analyst, will present "Toxics, Hazardous Waste and Human Health: An Investor Perspective" at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. The topic will be introduced to over eighty graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in the Harvard Extension School. Dr. Veleva's lecture is designed to complement Harvard's class "The World Today," teaching students to examine, understand and analyze contemporary international politics.

The presentation will include some of the original research conducted by Citizens Advisers Social Research Analysts Vesela Veleva and Suresh Sethi concerning new European Union directives requiring the complete phaseout of several toxic chemicals commonly used in the electronics industry by 2006. Citizens Advisers, a socially responsible investment manager, initiated a study last year of electronic components manufacturers to evaluate the state of their preparedness to address the new rules.

The complete study is published in the journal Corporate Environmental Strategy, Veleva, V. and Sethi, S. (October 2004), The Electronics Industry In a New Regulatory Climate: Protecting the Environment and Shareholder Value, Vol. 11. For further information about Citizens' study, please click here.

Ms. Veleva earned her doctorate in pollution prevention and cleaner production from the University of Massachusetts, Lowell; a master of science degree in pollution and environmental control from the University of Manchester, UK, and a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria.

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