2002 Conference Participants

2002 Participants

Sir Valentine Abdy
Member of the Forum 21 Advisory Board. Formerly: Special Cultural Advisor to UNESCO; Administrative Counsel to the Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs; Member of the Organizing Committee of the City of Space of Toulouse, France. Formerly: European Representative of the Smithsonian Institute; Member of the Smithsonian National Board; Director of Sotheby's.

Mr. Robert Abernethy
Real Estate Developer; CEO of American Standard Development Company; Member of the Board of Education, State of California; Trustee, Johns Hopkins University; Member of Harvard Partners. Former Board member of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Los Angeles County; Former Board member of the Los Angeles Planning Commission.

Ambassador Fawaz Al-Attiyya
Playwright. Islamic scholar. Formerly: The State of Qatar's Official Spokesperson (on sabbatical); Director of Office of the Foreign Minister, Qatar; Chief of Special Missions and Defense Affairs Coordinator for the Palace and Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs; Founder of TV Al-Jazeera's media strategy and program typology.

Ms. Jane Albrecht
President, The Albrecht Group, a legal/political/commercial strategies consultancy. Formerly: Vice-President & Director of the Motion Picture Association of America, Europe; Counsel, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae; Senior Trial Attorney, US International Trade Commission.

Mrs. Miriam Alexander
Teacher of Russian Literature. Author of her forthcoming autobiography, Babi Yar

Dr. Yonah Alexander
Director, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. Director, International Center for Terrorism Studies. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Terrorism: An Electronic Journal and Knowledge Base and the International Journal on Minorities and Group Rights. Professor of International Studies and Director of the Institute for Studies in International Terrorism at the State University of New York. He is a senior research staff member at the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies. Editor in chief of Terrorism: An International Journal and Political Communication and Persuasion: An International Journal. Author of more than 60 books.

Dr. Sami Al-Faraj
President, Kuwait Center for Strategic Studies. Attorney. Author: A Legal and a Documentary Introduction to the Study of Iraqi War Crimes Against the State of Kuwait; Common Ground On Iraq-Kuwait Reconciliation; Crossing to a New Century; Iraqi Strategic Thinking 1979-1999-A Kuwaiti Perspective; Strategic Thinking (which deals with the impact of the September 11th terrorist attack on the US and its impact upon the national security of the Gulf nations), and many others.

Dr. Henk J. Alkema
Founder, Alstrat Consultants; formerly: Associate Partner of Andersen Consulting; Head of Strategy, Shell Chemicals; President of Shell Coal Trading andTransportation. Author: Shell's Oil Price Scenarios and Producer Strategies 1971.

Mrs. Riete Alkema
Art collector

Ambassador Jacques Andréani
Former French Ambassador to the United States (Bush & Clinton Administrations), Italy and Egypt. Author: L'Amérique et Nous.

Mme Donatella Andréani
Interpreter.

Mr. Loigrand De Angelis Menendez
Director. Nobil Group. Real Estate.

Mr. Luigi De Angelis Menendez
Director. Nobil Group. Real Estate.

Dr. Alberta Arthurs
MEM Associates. Formerly: Director of Arts & Humanities at the Rockefeller Foundation; Director for the Program in Culture and Development at the Council on Foreign Relations; Professor at Tufts, Rutgers and Harvard Universities and was the President of Chatham College from 1977-1982.

Dr. Edward Arthurs
Now an independent scholar, working on switching and traffic theory for integrated networks; the quantum theory of communication, computation and measurement, and nano-electronics. Formerly: Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Bellcore; Member of the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds the B.S. and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ella Walker Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center.

Mr. Max Askaroff
Consultant, Property Developer and Financial Advisor. Partner in Financial Solutions.

M. Bernard Attali
Conseiller Maître à la Cour des Comptes and chairman of the Paris-Region Development Agency. Formerly: CFO of Club Med, head of Datar (Délégation à l'aménagement du Territoire); Chairman of Groupe des Assurances Nationales, Chairman and CEO of Air France, Chairman of the IATA executive committee, Chairman of Bankers Trust, France and Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank investment banking for Europe.

Mme Hélène Attali
Now in charge of geopolitical and philosophical lecture series at Association de l'Alya des Jeunes (ADJ) in Paris. Formerly in the advertising business with Groupe Havas.

Mrs. Elizabeth Barrow
Qualified as a nurse (SRN) from Hammersmith Hospital, London and the Nuffield Hospital, Oxford. She now has her own sugar craft business in Cambridge and works four days per week with volunteers possessing learning disabilities in a cafe project run jointly with the charity Mencap in Cambridge.

Dr. John Barrow
Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Dept. Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. Author: 14 books, including The Left Hand of Creation (with Joseph Silk), The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (with Frank Tipler), Theories of Everything, Impossibility: the limits of science and the science of limits, Between Inner Space and Outer Space The Book of Nothing, The Universe that Discovered Itself, The Artful Universe, Pi in the Sky, The Origin of the Universe, and, most recently has written Infinities a play (in Italian) opening soon at Teatro la Scala in Milan.

Dr. Nicole A. Baumann
Directeur de Recherches (Neurobiology research, Alzheimer) at Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Consultant in Neurology at Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, Member French National Ethics Committee.

Mr. Peter Beinart
Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic Magazine. Contributor: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic Monthly, and Time. Regular reporter, CNN's Late Edition.

Dr. Axel Berg
Deputy (SPD), German Parliament; Lawyer and Political Scientist. Member of Parliament Committees on Economy and Technology and Social Democratic spokesman of the Committee on Sustainable Supply of Energy. Founder of the Energiewerk.net, Munich.

Mrs. Barbara Boggs
Meeting and events planning

Mr. Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr.
Senior Partner of Patton Boggs Law Firm. Member of the Federal City Council. Memberships include: National Board of Directors, Congressional Award Foundation; Board of Directors, Suburban Mortgage Association Incorporated; Board of Visitors, Duke University; Board of Trustees, University of Maryland Foundation; Board of Trustees, Chesapeake Bay Trust; and Board of Directors, The Keystone Center. Mr. Boggs is co-author of Private Trade Barriers in the Atlantic and of Corporate Political Activity. Formerly: Board of Regents, Georgetown University. Board Member, Eastern Airlines, Washington BanCorporation; Chemfix Technologies.

Ambassador Amy Bondurant
Member of the Forum 21 Advisory Board. Former U.S. Ambassador to the O.E.C.D. Formerly: Adviser to Clinton/Gore Transition on White House policy management structures, Sub-Cabinet selection; Secretary of the Vice President's Residence Foundation; Executive Committee of law firm Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand; Senior Counsel to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

Mme Constance Borde
Executive Committee, Democrats Abroad, France. Former Maître de Conférence at l'Institut d'Etudes Sciences Politiques; Author: Cookbook. Former Vice-Chairman Democrats Abroad, France; Chairman Gore 2000, France; Board Member Centre pour les Etudes des Communications Internationales.

Maître Dominique Borde
Managing Partner - Cabinet Moquet Borde & Associés. Permanent Member of the International Chamber of Commerce Institute of Business Law Practice; Member of the Law Committee of the French National Federation of Industries and Services (M.E.D.E.F.); Member of the Pedagogical Committee of the Law and Tax Studies Department of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (H.E.C.); Member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia Law School Member of the Board of Médecins sans frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

Mr. Stefan Bucher
Financial Advisor.

Mr. Michael Cahén
C.E.O. Cahén & Co., Formerly: European Chief Operating Officer of ICC Industries in Amsterdam. Chief Executive Officer of Tricon International in Bermuda and London. Founded Paranational Corporation, an M&A strategy consultancy, which subsequently sold to the Scandinavian Bank Group. MBC. Served as an Executive Director of ScanBank.

Mr. Ernesto Cavelier
Member of the Forum 21 Advisory Board. Attorney-at-Law. Partner and Member of the Managing Committee of Parra,Rodriguez and Cavelier. Member: Public Relations Committee (World Focus SubCommittee) of the International Trademark Association; American Bar Association; International Bar Association; Inter-American Bar Association; Licensing Executives Society USA/CANADA; Licensing Executives Society Colombia/Ecuador/Peru (President); Colegio de Abogados de Minas Y Petróleos; Academia Colombiana de Jurisprudencia. Alumni: Peter F. Drucker Management School, NYU, Association of the Academy of American and International Law.

Dr. Sandra Citi
MD, PhD (University of Florence, Italy). Faculty: Department of Biology, University of Padua (Italy). Trained at Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge, UK), has also taught at Cornell University Medical College, NY.

Maitre Jodie Cohen-Tanugi
Partner, Bird & Bird Law Firm. European Representative to Alumnae Committee of the Harvard Law School Association.

Maitre Laurent Cohen-Tanugi
Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and author/essayist, writing (in French) on such diverse subjects as "Le Droit sans l'Etat", a comparative essay on the French and American legal and political traditions, "Le Choix de l'Europe", an essay on the future of the European enterprise, "Le Nouvel ordre numérique", a multi-disciplinary analysis of the communications and information technology revolution. He is a regular columnist in Le Monde and Les Echos, and lectures on a variety of subjects in France and internationally.

Mrs. Pilar Copete de Cavelier
Artist.

M. Jean-Francois Court
Senior Partner, ARJIL Associés Banque. Formerly: International Tax Counsel, French Ministry of Finance; Chief of Staff for the Minister of Culture and Communications, François Léotard; General Manager, Bistro Romain Group; Chairman and CEO, EUROPAR Investment; Chairman and CEO, Socapi-Serenis Insurance Group.

Mrs. Martha G. K. Court
An American living in Paris for twenty years, who has worked with French and American companies (i.e.CFC Daum, Tetard, Bredin Prat, Skadden Arps, American Express etc.) and both French and American governments (Ministry of Culture and Communication and Internal Revenue Service, International Operations).

Mr. Roger Cruise
Founder and President, France Capital, Investment Counselors. Maître de Conférence at l'Institut d'Études Sciences Politiques (International Finance). Past President AARO (Association of Americans Resident Overseas).

Mrs. Vivian Cruise
Child Psychologist. Co-Chairman of the Paris/USA College Day. Board Member: Paris Alumni Network of USA Universities.

Mr. Gil Donaldson
Member of the Forum 21 Advisory Board. Independent Film Producer, Donaldson Polakoff Productions. Senior Advisor, Atlantic Trust Company Private Wealth Management. Board Member, The Merchant and Ivory Foundation.

Ms. Kathleen Dove
Corporate Education, Technology Training Manager

Mr. David E. Dunn, III
Member of the Forum 21 Advisory Board. Chairman of the Board, UPAID Systems Ltd. (Internet and Telephony Software), Managing Partner, Bozman Partners Investment Fund LLC, USA and France; Partner, Patton, Boggs Law Firm, Washington, D.C.; Founder, European Center for Public Affairs, Oxford. Formerly: Assistant to President of OPIC, Dept. of State; Political Director, Democratic Party of the US; Founding Advisory Board member - Democratic Leadership Council.

Ambassador Alvaro Escallón
Founder of the University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia; Member of the Board of Directors, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano. Member of the Advisory Board of Parra, Rodríguez& Cavelier, Bogotá. Formerly: Colombian Ambassador to China, Poland.

Mrs. Sakurako Fisher

Mr. William Fisher
Private Investor.

Mr. Brian Fix
Attorney. Cabinet Salans, Hertzfeld & Heilbronn.

Mr. Phil Gagner
Partner in the Washington, D.C. Firm of Shaughnessy, Volzer & Gagner, and specializes in Computer and Intellectual Property Law. He is also Executive Vice President of NetSecure Solutions, Inc. Formerly: senior computer scientist, Digital Equipment Corporation, the Federal Judicial Center in the United States and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at M.I.T.

Mrs. Gloria Godat
Cultural Traveler. Memberships: Board of Directors, Dallas Museum of Art; Center for the Performing Arts.

Mr. Armando Gonzales-Behar
Executive Assistant to C.T.O. RavenPack AG. Formerly: President of the Student Government Association of the American University of Paris. Founder of the SGN- Student Government Network; a campus wide broadcasting system using custom-made technology and MPEG-2 compression video which provides news and advertisement to the University's community.

Ms. Judy Graves
Director, The Effective Speaker. Co-Author: L.A.W.S. - Laws Applied to Women's Status. Formerly: Professor - American University - London

Professor Sara Hager
Special Assistant to the Provost for International Initiatives and University Fellowship Secretary, Georgetown University. Adjunct Professor of Italian. Formerly: Curricular Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics.

Ms. Jenny Hamilton
C.E.O. The Nutrition Group. Former Interior Designer

Ms. Diana Hartstein
Caplin & Drysdale. Attorney and Certified Public Accountant. Adjunct Professor of law and accounting at Georgetown University Law Center and the Washington College of Law. Formerly: Auditor at Arthur Andersen and an attorney at Williams & Connolly, specializing in defending clients accused of tax crimes

Mr. David Holtzman
Social technology expert; President, GlobalPOV LLC; Director, Nanotechnology Business Alliance. Formerly: CTO, Network Solutions (ran Internet master root server/designed domain name Registry system); Chief Scientist, Internet Information Technology Group, IBM (built Cryptolope digital rights management system); Adjunct Professor of Marketing, American University; ex-submariner, cryptographer and intelligence analyst, US Navy.

Mr. Paul Horne
Equity Market Economist. Financial Writer. Formerly: European Equity Market Economist and Managing Director of Salomon Smith Barney; Chief International Analyst, Salomon Smith Barney.

Mrs. Berna Huebner
Director, Young Artists/Elderly Scholarship Project, Art Institute of Chicago. Director, Centre pour les Etudes des Communications Internationales, Paris. Formerly: Director of Research, Vice President and Governor Nelson Rockefeller.

Ms. Sally Hunter
Founder, Video Base International, a Producer of Political Documentary Films. Formerly: General Manager and Senior Producer of Newsweek's Video Division.

Mr. David Ignatius
Editor in Chief - International Herald Tribune. Author of 5 novels: Agents of Innocence; SIRO; The Bank of Fear; A Firing Offense; and The Sun King. Formerly: Foreign Editor, Washington Post, Middle East Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Eve Ignatius
Computer Scientist with expertise in data visualization.

M. Jean-Marc Illouz
Senior Correspondent with France2. Network News. Covered foreign affairs for the last 30 years, mostly in Third World Countries and as a war correspondent . His field reporting took him to Vietnam in the early seventies, Lebanon and Israel in the mid-eighties and to the Gulf and Yugoslavia in the early nineties with a short stint in western Cambodia 's Khmer Rouge territory in 1998. From 92 to 95, he was France2's White House Correspondent. He now frequently travels to Iran and reports on and off on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Mr. Yudhisthir Raj Isar
Director in charge of the Histories Section, Division of Intercultural Dialogue, UNESCO; Visiting Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, The Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom and the International Center for Culture and Management, Salzburg, Austria. Formerly: Director, Cultural Policies for Development, UNESCO; Director, International Fund for the Promotion of Culture; Executive Secretary of the World Commission on Culture and Development; Executive Director, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University & MIT; Editor-in-Chief, Museum magazine. Editor: The Challenge to Our Cultural Heritage: Why Preserve the Past? The Smithsonian Press and UNESCO Publishing, 1987.

Dr Claude Jasmin
Director, Departments of Hematology, Immunology, and Biology of Tumoral Diseases at Paul Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France. Professor of Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Paris XI. President, Institute for Cancer and Immunogenetics (ICIG), Villejuif. President, Congress " Global Health Equity: Medical Progress & Quality of Life in the XXIst Century " (UNESCO Paris). Author: L'homme futur en question, Derrière le Miroir de la Science, and many others. Memberships: Member, Scientific Committee, International Life Sciences Institute Europe (ILSI); Member, Group of Geriatric Oncology (EORTC); Member, Scientific Committee, International Society for Geriatric Oncology (SIOG); Founding President, International Society for Bone Metastases (ISBM); Founding President, International Council for Global Health Progress (ICGHP). Awards: Prix El'Rofé (Medical Ethics); Prix Espoir, Prize for AIDS research; Docteur Marc Ferrester Prize, Award for cancer research.

Dr. Robert Kaplan
Economist. President, Beacon Consulting Group (strategic planning and corporate strategy). Formerly; Professor of Business Economics

Mr. Alon Kasha
Principal at Bessemer Trust Company and manages the firms European client services group. Founding member of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Foundation' chair of the FXB US Foundation' Trustee of the FXB Aerospace Prize.

Mrs. Elizabeth Kasha
Former Director of Corporate Communications for Cartier, Inc.,.USA.

Ms. Sheilah Kast
Former White House and Congressional Correspondent for ABC News, former host of "This Week in Business" on American Public Television. Served on various boards of the Greater Southeast Healthcare System, Washington, DC.

Mr. Richard Kauffman
Vice Chairman and member of the European Executive Committee at Morgan Stanley International. Lecturer in finance and financial accounting at the Yale School of Management Formerly: Global Head of Equity Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley; Managing Director and Head of U.S. Equity Capital Markets at First Boston.

Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan
Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation, Roger Williams University, RI, and Visiting Professor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Former Director of Architectural Activities for His Highness the Aga Khan, France. Author of numerous articles and seven books on Contemporary and Islamic Architecture.

Ms. Lucy Komisar
Journalist and author on foreign policy issues, with special expertise on offshore bank and corporate secrecy and on human rights policy; member Council on Foreign Relations; theater critic; member Drama Desk (New York). Formerly: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur grantee, John Simon Guggenheim fellow. Author: Corazon Aquino: The Story of a Revolution; Down and Out in the U.S.A.? A History of Public Welfare; The New Feminism.

Mr. Peter Kostopulos
Partner, Womble Carlyle, Washington, D.C. Chair of the U.S.-Canada LES Strategic Alliance Committee. Formerly: Antitrust Counsel at the Federal Trade Commission and as senior trial counsel at the Department of Justice.

Ms. Laura Kullenberg
Senior Evaluation Officer, World Bank. Formerly: Member of UN advance team in Kosovo, setting up the UN administration and working for the office of the UN Secretary General Special Representative, Pristina, Kosovo; Director of Programme for the UN Special Representative to the Balkans, Skopjie, Macedonia; Head of Policy, UN Capital Development Fund; Oxfam Field Director, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Worked or lived in: Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya; Burma, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, West Bank & Gaza, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Guatemala, Bolivia, Haiti.

Mrs. Dawn Lehmann
Former Director of Publicity, Ultima-Revlon.

Mr. David Lehmann
C.F.O. UPAID Systems, Ltd. President and C.E.O. Trivium, S.A. Former Partner and Senior Managing Director, Montgomery Securities. Active: Seeds of Peace.

Ms. Flora Lewis
Journalist. Columnist, New York Times and International Herald Tribune. Author. Recipient: National Press Club's 13th Annual Fourth Estate Award for "a lifetime of contributions to American journalism."

Ms. Sandy Libby
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Treasurer for The Rendon Group. Formerly: Administrator the The U. S. Exhibit at the Knoxville Worlds Fair; Deputy Convention Manager for the 1980 Democratic Convention; and worked for several years as a Political Manager at the Democratic National Committee.

Ms. Marge Lipton
The first woman to produce a network news broadcast. She is the winner of a Peabody Award, the Overseas Press Club Award and an Emmy nomination. Since leaving ABC, she has worked at the Council on Foreign Relations and consults for the World Economic Forum. Marge received a Knight Professional Journalism Fellowship from Stanford University.

Ms. Karen Longeteig
Going Native Co. Garden Design. Formerly: U.S. Foreign Service Officer; Chairman, USA Girl Scouts Overseas.

Mrs. Susan Lubomirski
Forum 21 Conference staff. Conference Consultant. Former Director of Conferences for the International Herald Tribune.

Mr. Zane McCarthy
Director of Network Security for Akoura Biometrics. He has spent his career in various aspects of the IT and Telecom industry, focusing primarily on Enterprise System Engineering and large-scale networking and security applications. He also founded and worked for three startup companies, including Ultimate Privacy, an unbreakable one-time pad encryption provider.

Dr. Catherine McGurn
Dentist, Prostodontics Specialist.

Mr. William McGurn
Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Stein & Hamilton. Governor of the American Hospital of Paris. Former President, American Chamber of Commerce, France.

Sir Keith Morris
Member Advisory Board Parra, Rodriguez, Cavelier, Bogotá. Member Advisory Board Control Risks Group Ltd. Formerly British Ambassador to Colombia. Director-General British Trade Development, Italy. Chairman Grahame H. Wills Ltd. Chairman Diplomatic Service Appeals Board. Founder Chairman British & Colombian Chamber of Commerce. Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Latin American Studies, London.

Dr. Jerome Murphy
Howe Professor of Education, Harvard University. Former Dean, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.

Mrs. Susan Murphy
Garden designer.

Mrs. Candice Nancel
Staff, Hôtel de Talleyrand

Mr. Frederick Nancel
Public Relations, Chateau de Chantilly

Dr. Azim Nanji
Director, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Professor of Islamic Studies. Author: "The Muslim Encyclopedia"

Mrs. Razia Nanji
Librarian with a special interest in Reference Services and Technology

Mr. Joe Napolitan
Political Consultant for both U.S. and Foreign Political Campaigns. Founder of both the American Association of Political Consultants and the International Association of Political Consultants. Author: The Election Game; 100 Things I have Learned In 30 Years As A Political Consultant.

Ambassador Richard Narich
Director, Centre de Politique de Sécurité, Geneva. Formerly: French Ambassador to Paraguay; Nicaragua.

Mme Linda de Nazelle
Founder, Director, Art Musique Exchanges. Developing the American Foundation for the Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre, Chateau de Fontainebleau.

Mr. Frank Newman
Director of Dow Jones & Company, of Korea First Bank of GUS, U.K. Member of the Advisory Board of Renault & Nissan; member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Hall Society; and a member of the Board of Overseers of Cornell University Medical College. Chairman Emeritus of Bankers Trust. Formerly: Deputy Secretary of the United States Treasury Department and its chief operating officer; Chief Financial Officer and Vice-Chairman BankAmerica Corporation: Chief Financial Officer Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco.

Mrs. Lizabeth Newman
Philanthropist. Vice-Chairman Board of Trustees, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Member, Board of Trustees, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Women's Health Symposium, Weill Cornell Medical College Advisory Council, American Museum of Natural History Former Trustee, Wheaton College.

Ms. Judith Oringer
Liason for conductor Huges Reiner with musical and international organization and the press. Former interpreter. Author: Passion for the Piano.

Mr. Jacques de Pablo Lacoste
C.E.O., Asian Systemic Investments, Ltd. Senior Advisor, Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and the Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies.

Mr. Guillaume Parmentier
Head of the French Center on the United States (CFE) at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI). Professor at the University of Paris. Author: Reconcilable Differences, French-US Relations in the New Era. Formerly: Director of the Civilian Affairs Committee of the North Atlantic Assembly; Assistant Director of Information and Head of External Relations at NATO. French Ministry of Defense, from 1994-1995, Created the Center on the U. S and France at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.

Lucie A. Carswell-Parmentier
Attorney-at-law (Washington DC Bar), and avôcat à la Cour (barreau de Paris), of counsel Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue (Paris office). Formerly with SG Archibald, heading their Brussels office. Specializes in competition and distribution law, international mergers and acquisitions, European Community law. Author: Law and Business in the European Single Market.

Ms. Susan Passovoy
Attorney; Of Counsel, Preston|Gates|Ellis LLP; emphasis in commercial real estate, land use and development law.

Mrs. Margaret Pearson
Senior Foreign Service Officer, Department of State.

Ambassador W. Robert Pearson
U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey. Formerly: Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Paris.

Mme Sylvie Pelissier
Director, Fondation La Poste

Mrs. Emilia Perez de Rodriguez
Aeronautical engineer. Maintenance Manager, Petroleum Helicopters de Colombia.

Ms. Bettyna Phouang Phet
Pharmacist

Mr. Robert Pingeon
Governmental Consultant. Chairman, Republicans Abroad France.

Mme Judith Pisar
President, Arts - France/USA which has produced numerous concerts and events in Paris honoring George Gershwin, Black American Jazz Artists and Leonard Bernstein. Formerly: Chairman of the American Center, Paris; Director Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Maître Samuel Pisar
Member of the Forum 21 Advisory Board. International lawyer, Paris, London and New York Bars; Trustee, Brookings Institution, Washington; President, Yad Vashem, France; Formerly: member, John F. Kennedy's Task Force on Foreign Economic Policy; Advisor to State Department and various Congressional Committees; Author: Coexistence and Commerce; Of Blood and Hope.

Ms. Carol Polakoff
Independent Film Producer. Screenwriter. Lived and worked in Jerusalem as a journalist and photographer for ABC News. Moving to Los Angeles, she worked as a Producer in film and television with the studios and networks. Produced, written and directed award- winning documentaries on Cuba and Haiti, which have aired on U.S. Public Television and have been shown theatrically. She is currently living and working in Paris, developing movie projects and writing screenplays.

Mr. Heiner Pollert
CEO of RavenPack AG, attorney-at-law, copyright and licensing expert. Former Chief Operations Officer (COO) at MPS (1994-1997); a media production and licensing organization, owned by the Porsche Family, (Stuttgart and Munich). Consultant and board member of various innovative media and technology companies: ClubLaw GmbH - Munich; APIS GmbH - Munich; Metrocinevision GmbH - Berlin; Airdata AG - Stuttgart.

Mrs. Marian Potter
Needle pointer, par excellence. Formerly worked in Gemology.

Ms. Mary Jo Potter
Sr. Vice-President, Segal Company-Sibson Consulting.

Dr. Chris Quigg
Director, Theoretical Physics Department. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Formerly: Superconducting Super Collider Central Design Group: Deputy Director for Operations. Schrodinger Professor, University of Vienna. Editor, Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. Author: Gage Theories of the Strong, Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions and a forthcoming book on Particle Physics For Layman.

Mrs. Elizabeth Quigg
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory - multimedia/web developer. Produced award winning Particles and Prairies, an interactive video program for middle schoolers.

M. Olivier Raffit
Founder and President DPI Conseil. Developer of Internet applications for the French Real Estate Industry.

Ms. Nancy Ramsey
Futurist. Author: The Future of Women - Scenarios for the 21st Century. Co-Author: Nuclear Weapons Decision Making. President: Morning Star Imports, Importer of Jewelry from the North Africa and the Middle East. Advisor Board member: The Institute for Women and Technology; Member; Club of Rome. Formerly: Legislative Director: U.S., Senator John Kerry; Executive Director: Americans for S.A.L.T. Treaty; Founder: Committee for National Security.

Mrs. Susan Rappaport
Museum Guide Publications. Director, Press and Information of Museums. Member: Advisory Committee Washington, DC Lawyers Committee on Human Rights. Children's Rights Watch. Women's Leadership Forum. Trustee Folger Library. Presidential Committee on Arts and Humanities.

M. Hugues Reiner
Conductor and Director, Orchestre Philharmonique Européen, under the patronage of the French Senate. Believing that music can promote friendship among peoples of different nations and origins, he has conducted concerts commemorating historic moments, including: the revolution in Romania, independence in Lithuania, a televised concert in Beijing a year after the massacre in Tienamen Square, and he reconstituted the Orchestra of Sarajevo. Starting a movement to support musicians deprived of their means to exist, he brings more than a dozen orchestras from Eastern Europe and Russia to perform in France.

Mr. John Rendon
C.E.O. The Rendon Group - A Global Strategic Communications Consultancy. Formerly: Executive Director and National Political Director for the Democratic Party of the United States. Director of Scheduling for President Jimmy Carter. Analyst for American Political System for BBC World TV. Mr. Rendon has designed strategies for for counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation and counter-incitement environments. Currently advising the U.S. Government on the War Against Terrorism.

Ambassador James Rentschler
Author. Former U.S. Ambassador to Malta and Guinea, Former Director of Press and Communications O.E.C.D. Director West European and North African Affairs, National Security Council.

M. Michel Rocard
Member of the Forum 21 Advisory Board. Member of the European Parliament. Formerly: Chair of African Affairs Committee. Chairman of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament. Formerly: Prime Minister of France; French Minister of Agriculture; Minister for Planning and Regional Planning Inspector-General of Finance; Mayor of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.

Mr. Bernardo Rodriguez-Ossa
Attorney. Partner and Member of the Managing Committee, Parra, Rodriguez and Cavelier.

Ambassador James Rosapepe
Investor and Consultant. Former U.S. Ambassador to Romania

Mr. Thomas Rose
Publisher and C.E.O., The Jerusalem Post. Commentator for the Weekly Standard Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times. He appears frequently on television and radio in North America and Israel.

Mr. Hardy Schloer
C.T.O., RavenPack AG Germany, since 1979 System Software Developer in the area of integrated artificial intelligence systems for scientific research and business applications. Mr. Schloer is the founder of the Quantum Relation Theory and has developed the HEAI architecture (Human Emulated Artificial Intelligence). Distinguished Research Associate and Senior Advisor to the Institute for European Studies at the University of Georgia (USA)Formerly: private consultant, global project manager, and strategic planner of mission-critical applications for sovereign governments and corporations, AT&T, General Motors and Siemens.

Ms. Inez Schreiden
Secretary General of Forum 21. President of Inez Schreiden Associates. Professor of cross-cultural management at University of Paris Dauphine.

Mr. Rusty Schweickart
Astronaut, Apollo 9. Trustee, California Academy of Science; Recipient: NASA Distinguished Service Medal (Apollo); Exceptional Service Medal (Skylab Rescue); Emmy. Former Chairman, California Energy Commission; C.E.O. ALOHA Networks.

Dr. Richard Sennett
Professor of Social and Cultural Theory at the London School of Economics, Author: The Fall of Public Man; Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization; The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism, many others.

Mr. Brian Shaughnessy
Partner in the Washington, D.C. Law Firm of Shaughnessy, Volzer & Gagner.

Ms. Kate Sheaffer
Public policy and media consultant. Clients have included the U.S. White House, NATO, the United Nations and the Democratic National Committee

Dr. David Shore
David Shore, PhD. Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva; member, European Molecular Biology Organization; formerly Professor of Microbiology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.

M. Pierre Sissman
Chairman and CEO, Omniticket Network. Chairman and CEO Cyber Capital Investments (entertainment and media). Founder of the World's Children Summit with UNESCO. Founder of the World Junior Chess Championship with FIDE (International Chess Federation). World Philatelist Expert. Formerly: Executive Vice President of The Walt Disney Company, Europe; Former Associate Professor of Management American College in Paris and Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris.

Mme Joëlle Sissman
Oral Surgeon.

Mr. Joseph Smallhoover
Partner, Dechert Price & Rhoads. Former Partner, Law Offices of S.G. Archibald. Editor of Revue de Droit des Affaires Internationales/International Business Law Journal. Chairman, Democrats Abroad. Member, Democratic National Committee.

Ms. Katharine (Trina) von Rosenvinge Sobotka
C.E.O., Mama's Potomac Dredging. Owner of Cole's Point Plantation, a 200 slip marina on the Potomac River. Became interested in photography while living in Iran in the early 70's. Received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design.

Mr. Jonathan Spalter
Member of the Forum 21 Advisory Board. Vice President VivendiUniversal. Formerly: Associate Director and Chief Technology Officer, United States Information Agency; Director of Public Affairs at the National Security Council; Assistant White House Press Secretary for International Affairs; Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense.

Dr. Mihai Spariosu
Distinguished Research Professor and Academic Director, Institute for European Studies, University of Georgia, Athens and Avignon, France; President of the International Foundation for Global Studies; Director of the Avignon Education Forum.

Mme Christina Tezenas du Montcel
Former Directeur, Neumann International.

Ambassador Jean-Daniel Tordjman
Inspecteur Général des Finances en service extraordinaire. Président, Cercle des Ambassadeurs. Formerly: Executive Vice-President, Trader.com; Ambassador at large, Special Representative of France for International Investment; Plenipotentiary Minister for Economic and Commercial Affairs, Embassy of France, Washington D.C.; Deputy Secretary for Commerce, Small Business and Tourism for the French government; Counselor for International Affairs, Ministry of Research and Technology, France.

Mrs. Nicole Tordjman
Museum lecturer. Docent of the National Gallery in Washington D.C. and of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Former Producer of film and radio broadcast for France Culture and PBS. Director of the Museum section of Bienvenue en France. Member of the Board of the International Council of Women.

Mr. Mitch Thrower
CEO, General Manager and Co-founder of The Active Europe Network. Co-founder of Active Network USA. President and COO of Triathlete Magazine and President and CEO of The College Connection, Inc. and The Rail Connection. Author and monthly columnist, 11 time Ironman Triathlete.

Mrs. Brooke Travelstead
Islamic Art Historian.

Mr. Malcolm Travelstead
Senior V.P., Atlantic Trust Company. Treasurer: Brooklyn Polyprep Country Day School Formerly: Banker with Chase Manhattan, J.P. Morgan, Bessemer Trust and Morgan Stanley. Lived in Lybia, Bahrein, Iran, Egypt and Lebanon. Peace Corps Volunteer.

Mr. John Thomas (Tim) Tyler, Jr.
President FerrieTyler,Inc. AI Business Development/Complex Problem Solutions. Formerly: Senior Positions in Office of Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) & Defense Security Assistance Agency; White House Task Force; Director, Defense Plans US Mission to NATO.

Mme Aude de La Vallée Poussin
Charity in developing countries. Les Femmes d'Europe

M. Gérard de La Vallée Poussin
Director of a mining consultancy and co-founder of a Fund in process of being created for private equity investment in Africa. Born and raised in East Africa, worked for Anglo American and De Beers in 60's and 70's, subsequently director of Phibro Energy in the UK (a division of Salomon).

Mr. Nicolas de La Vallée Poussin
Management consultant for Bain and Company, UK. Formerly a commercial analyst for Allied Domecq Spirits and Wines Ltd and worked for Anglo American Corporation in West Africa.

Ms. Jane Von Kaenel
C.E.O., Empress Trading International. Memberships: National Board, National Women's Political Caucus, Board Member, Saint Louis International Film Festival; Kate Chopin Society of North America; Library Associates of St. Louis University and St. Louis Literary Award.. Formerly: White House Staff of President's Carter and Clinton. Member, White House Transition Team. Presidential Assistant for Trade Legislation (NAFTA). Broadcast journalist: Associated Press, CBS Radio.

Mr. Glenn Wallace
Savannah College of Art and Design

Mrs. Paula Wallace
President, Savannah College of Art and Design.

Mrs. Abby Hirsch Weinstein
Journalist. Formerly: Television Producer (ABC, NBC); Publicist; Author: The Great Carman Miranda Look Alike Contest; What Men Don't Tell Women; The Lessons of Love; The Photography of Rock. Recipient: Mark Twain Humor Award.

Dr. Kenneth Weinstein
Vice President and Director, Washington Office - The Hudson Institute. Formerly: Director, Government Reform Project - The Heritage Foundation; Adjunct Professor of Government - Georgetown University.

Mr. Paul Weinstein
Founder of Forum 21; President, Rive Droite, Inc.-International Investments; Senior Associate, The Keefe Company, a Public Policy firm in Washington, D.C.; Member of the Board of the Centre pour les Études des Communications Internationales. Formerly: International tax attorney; CPA - Price Waterhouse & Co.; Adjunct Professor of Law - University of California.

Mr. John Willis
Director of Rule Conseil, Management Consultants. Former computer engineer

Mr. Donald Wolf
Founder and President of European Property Partners (USA) and TIGRE (France). Real estate.

Mrs. Jean Wolf
Educational Consultant with Dunbar Educational Consultants.

Mr. Perry Woofter
Attorney. Formerly: Vice President of Titan Corporation; Senior Vice President of Tesoro Petroleum Corporation; Vice President of the El Paso Natural Gas Company; Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, Majority Leader of the United States Senate.

Mrs. Vivien Woofter
Director for Interior Design of the Office of Foreign Building Operations in the U.S. State Department. She has served as an interior designer with the General Services Administration, and as head of interior design for the White House.

Ms. Cathy Wright
Atma Vidya Education Foundation.

Mrs. Christine Zeghibe

Mr. Ronald Zeghibe
C.E.O., The Maiden Group, PLC. Memberships: Steering Committee of Boston Latin School, Campaign Committee for Worcester College, Oxford University, Visiting Committee, Harvard College, Harvard University, Council Member, Friends of the Royal Academy; Business Advisory Committee, Royal National Institute for the Blind.

M. Georges Ziesel
Georges Zeisel, founder-director of the European Center of Chamber Musique. Former France Musique and France Culture radio producer, director of musical documentaries for public television, Zeisel founded ProQuartet to promote string quartet and chamber music. Producing concerts and festivals, networking throughout Europe and North America, ProQuartet sponsors master classes, residencies and composer commissions that keep the grand musical traditions flourishing.

Dr. Dorothy Zinberg
Lecturer in Public Policy, and a founding member of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Visiting Professor, Imperial College, London. Formerly a biochemist at Harvard Medical School, she later received a Ph.D. in the Sociology of Science at Harvard University. In addition, Dr. Zinberg has recently served on NATO's Science Policy Committee and writes a monthly column for the London Times Higher Education Supplement.

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