Tim Stone's biography

Tim Stone was killed when his Ethiopian Airlines flight was hijacked on its way from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on November 23, 1996. The plane crashed over the Comoros Islands when it ran out of fuel after a four-hour joy ride. He was on a mission as Executive Director of HealthBridge (then known as PATH Canada) to develop nutrition projects in collaboration with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF).

Prior to joining HealthBridge in 1992, Tim had spent seven years with UNICEF in Cambodia and Mali working on food security, community development and nutrition. He had also worked for Save the Children U.K. in Bangladesh and Afghanistan from 1977 to 1981.

Tim Stone had an M.Sc from the University of London's London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1981). He graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa with an honours B.Sc. in 1977 and was awarded the CIDA Scholarship for Canadians in 1979. Tim had published articles on nutrition in periodicals such as the Journal of Tropical Paediatrics and the International Journal of Epidemiology.

Friends and colleagues around the world remember Tim for his warmth, humility and humour as well as his profound commitment to development. Shortly after his death the former Minister of International Co-operation said:

The commitment and hard work of Canadians like Tim Stone has made, and will continue to make, a difference - a difference that will shine in the bright eyes and smiling faces of millions of health people, especially children, around our world.

Tim leaves his wife, Jean Lash, and two young children, Clare and David.