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Forum 21 Participants
Mr. Robert Abernethy
Real Estate Developer; C.E.O. 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.
Mr. Bernie Ackermann
Fund Manager and Trader
Mrs. Martine Ackermann
New baby, makes everything else irrelevant for the moment.
Ambassador Fawaz al-Attiyya
Student of Comparative Religion. Formerly: The State of Qatar's Official Spokesperson; Chief of Special Missions and Defense Affairs Coordinator for the Palace and Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs; Television Producer and Founder of TV Al-Jazeera's media strategy and program typology.
Ms. Jane Albrecht
President, The Albrecht Group, an international legal/political/commercial strategies consultancy. Formerly: Vice-President & Director of the Motion Picture Association, Europe; Counsel, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, Brussels; Attorney, Dewey, Ballantine, Washington, DC; Verner, Liipfert, Washington, DC; US International Trade Commission.
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 Alkema
Founder, Alstrat Consultants; formerly: Associate Partner of Andersen Consulting; Head of Strategy, Shell Chemicals; President of Shell Coal Trading and Transportation. Author: Shell's Oil Price Scenarios and Producer Strategies 1971.
Mrs. Riete Alkema
Art Collector.
Mr. John Ward Anderson
Foreign Correspondent, Israel - The Washington Post
Ambassadeur Jacques Andréani
Member of the European Delegation to the Trilateral Commission. President of the United States division of France Amérique.. Chairman of the Alumni of the Institut de Sciences Politiques de Paris. Member of the Board of the French Foundation for the Memory of the Holocaust. Formerly: French Ambassador to the United States, Italy and Egypt. Author: L'Amérique et Nous. Member of the Forum 21 Advisory Board.
Mrs. Donatella Andréani
Interpreter for international conferences, linguistic consultant, organization of international encounters. Member of "Féminin Pluriel", a business club for ladies.
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. Robert Azencott
Founder, C.E.O. Miriad Technologies. Professor of Mathematics.
Ms. Kim Baker
Kim Baker is co-founder and creative director of Gouda, Inc. a product design and manufacturing firm headquartered in New York City, and specializing in educational gifts for Museums worldwide. Owner of Kim Baker Design, Inc., a furniture design and manufacturing company that specializes in luxury furniture. She is a member of the Alumni Board of The Cooper Union.
Ms. Naomi Baraka
Singer, Musician and Actress, Naomi Baraka is originally from Japan but now based permanently in Paris. She has performed leading roles in prominent Japanese theatres and sang in French, English and Japanese in concert halls. Ms. Baraka is currently creating an Association, which will be called "Les Trois Soleils," whose purpose will be to organize theatrical productions.
Dr. Nicole Baumann
Directeur de Recherche (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. Co-Author: Stress, Pathologies et Immunité.
The Hon. Axel Berg
Deputy (SPD), German Parliament; Lawyer and Political Scientist. Member of Parliament Committee on Economic Affairs and Employment, deputy member of Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs and deputy member of Parliament Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. Social democratic deputy spokesman for energy policy. Founder of the Energiewerk.net, Munich.
Mrs. Cassey Berg
Ms. Juli Betwee
C.E.O., Memeworks. Management Consultant.
Ambassador Amy Bondurant
Attorney-at-Law. Managing Director, Bozman Partners; Member of the Board of Directors, RollsRoyce Corporation; Board of Governors, American Hospital of Paris; Honorary Chairman, Paris Committee, Museum of Women in the Arts. Member of Vestry, American Cathedral of Paris. Formerly: U.S. Ambassador to the O.E.C.D. 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, MacPherson and Hand; Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
Ms. Nicole Boyer
Scenario & Global Issues Practitioner. Associate at King's College London; Teaching scenario planning to executives at CEDEP at INSEAD, Formerly: Associate, Global Business Network.
Dr. Larry Bridwell
Professor at the Graduate Management Faculty of Pace University. Academic interests in strategic management of high technology businesses and impact of government policy on corporations, with focus on the European Union, NAFTA, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. Formerly: Chair of Graduate Management Programs and International Business Programs, Pace University. Visiting Professor at IBM's International Finance, Planning and Administration School Taught for ten years in several IBM settings, including China, Europe and Mexico. A founder of the Pan-American Partnership, an alliance of four major North American Business schools: Lubin/Pace; Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales and Dalhousie University (Canada) and Institute Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico). Twelve years in the International Group of General Electric including serving as General Manager of the Saudi American General Electric Company.
Mme Bénédicte Brouard
President of B-ref. Member of the board of: Lafayette International (French-American investment fund), Manreo (video content management), Infraworlds (wireless games studio). President of the Board of the French Foreign Trade Advisors. Formerly: Executive Vice President of Sonepar.
Ms. Gwendoline Brucker
Director of Conferences, OECD; PhD, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; University of Paris Sorbonne.
Mr. Stefan Bucher
Managing Partner, CORUM Vermögensverwaltung AG, Zurich. CORUM is an independent Asset Management and Financial Advisor. Formerly: Director, Bank Sal. Oppenheim & Cie. AG, Zürich.
Mr. Michael Calvey
Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Baring Vostok Capital Partners in Moscow, and a Senior Partner of Baring Private Equity Partners Limited, a global private equity firm headquartered in London. Co-head of the investment team on the First NIS Regional Fund (NIS Fund) and the Baring Vostok Private Equity Fund, Russian dedicated private equity funds with approximately $400 million in initial capital. Mr. Calvey is the Chairman of the Investment Committee for both the NIS Fund and the Baring Vostok Fund, and has been directly or indirectly involved in most of the investments of both funds since inception.
Mrs. Julia Calvey
Marketing Director of Baring Vostok Capital Partners, and previously was the Sales Manager for Russia for Delta Airlines.
Mr. George Cardona
Founding Chief Executive Officer of Cardona Lloyd & Co, a London asset management and corporate finance company. Formerly: General Manager of HSBC Bank, with responsibility for HSBC Group businesses in 30 countries and territories. Director of the Close Finsbury Eurotech and Martin Currie Pacific investment trusts, and formerly a director of several banks and financial service companies both in the UK and overseas.
Mr. Rupert Carter
Travel Agent, Biologist and Thinker.
Ms. Brittany Catton
International Relations Major, University of San Diego. Internship Director, Students International Business Council.
Dr. Ernesto Cavelier-Franco
Attorney-at-Law. Partner and Member of the Managing Committee, Parra, Rodriguez and Cavelier. Member: American Bar Association; International Bar Association; Inter-American Bar Association; Licensing Executives Society USA/CANADA; Licensing Executives Society Colombia/Ecuador/Peru; Colegio de Abogados de Minas Y Petróleos; Academia Colombiana de Jurisprudencia; Alumni Association of the Academy of American and International Law. Founder and President, Licensing Executives Society (LES) Colombia/Ecuador/Peru.
Mrs. Pilar Copete de Cavelier
Artist
Mrs. Annie-Claude Chouraqui
Women image consultant
Mr. Claude Chouraqui
Chairman of the insurance group SIACI. Vice chairman, Francarep, Board Member of Jardine LLoyd Thompson plc. President of the Executive Committee, Fonds Social Juif Unifié. Board Member, Fondation du Judaisme Français.
Mr. Avi Cohen
Founder and President of Avian Securities, LLC, an NASD member brokerage firm that specializes in delivering a proprietary technology research product to institutional investors. Formerly: Partner with MJM Partners, a technology focused hedge fund.
Dr. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Nobel Laureate in Physics. Département de Physique - Ecole Normale Supérieure Laboratoire Kastler Brossel. Professor, College of France
Mrs. Jacqueline Cohen-Tannoudji
High school teacher in physics. Retired in 1997.
Mr. Angel Collado Schwarz
Founder and Chairman of Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi Latin America. Member of Advisory Board of Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Chairman of University of Puerto Rico Press. Member of the Board of Museo del Barrio in New York, and the Barenboim-Said Foundation and Advisor to the Berlin Staatsoper.
Mr. Napier Collyns
Co-founder and Managing Director of Global Business Network, Emeryville, California. Also a senior associate of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a public director of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), editor-at-large for Doubleday Currency, a board member of Meridian International Institute, the Arlington Institute, and the Strategic Management Society, and a member of the International Futures Forum and ICIS Forum. 30 years in the international oil industry, mostly with companies of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group in Venezuela, Nigeria, New York, London, and The Hague. A senior member of the small team at Shell that developed scenario planning in the early 1970s under the leadership of Pierre Wack
Mme Catherine Colonna
Official Spokeswoman for President Jacques Chirac.
Ms. Anna Cooper
Psychologist. Trained in psychoanalysis, existential and humanistic psychotherapy and is currently working on her Doctorate in Philosophy.
Ms. Isabel Cordero
Project leader of "Gardens, Culture, and Arts" for 2004 Barcelona World Forum. Formerly: Editor of the web Living & Gardening for AOL. Agencia Planetaria, Coordinator of Networks(REDES), the Spanish Public Television Programme for the public understanding of Science
Mr. Jason Cornez
Computer Scientist
Mr. Richard O. Cunningham
Senior international trade partner with the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson, LLP; advisor to major U.S., EU , Canadian and Japanese companies on the international trade laws of the United States, other countries and the World Trade Organization and on international legal, political and commercial strategies; frequent advisor to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, U. S. Department of Commerce, Senate Committee on Finance and House Committee on Ways & Means; Chair, American Bar Association Task Force on the Relationship of International Trade Law and Competition Law; Board Member, Canada-US Trade Law Institute; past Chair, ABA Standing Committee on Customs Law and ABA Task Force on the Reform of Complex and Multidistrict Litigation; former Chair, National Coalition of Sexual Freedom Foundation; major shareholder of a West Virginia country music radio station; former competitive tennis player.
Mrs. Judy A. Cunningham Guerin
Member of boards of The Woodhull Freedom Foundation and of Gender Public Advocacy Coalition; Member of the Advisory Boards of the Institute for 21st Century Relationships and the International Lifestyles Association; Formerly: senior executive for strategic planning with Informatics, Inc and several other computer companies. Executive Director of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, and member of the Steering Committee of the National Policy Roundtable of GLBT/HIV Advocacy Groups.
Dr. Pranab Das
Chair of the Department of Physics at Elon University. Physicist with interests in non-linear dynamics (sometimes called "chaos theory") and the history and philosophy of science. Principal Investigator and Program Director of the "Global Perspectives on Science and Spirituality" project funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
Mrs. Kate Hughes Del Tufo
Special Advisor to the President of the Milken Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA. Formerly: Vice-President, Communications Milken Family Foundation; Vice-President Robinson, Lake, Lerer & Montgomery Strategic Communications; Development Officer American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt. Author: Improving American Education (Co-editor), How Do We Get the Graduates We Want? (Co-editor). Member, National Finance Committee, Dean for President campaign.
Mr. Roberto Del Tufo
Attorney. Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Formerly: Attorney General of the State of New Jersey; Commissioner, New Jersey State Commission of Investigation; United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Memberships: New Jersey State Board of Bar Examiners; Board of Directors, New Jersey Educational Opportunity Fund; American Arbitration Association; International Association of Gaming Attorneys; Board of Trustees of the I.O.L.T.A. Fund of the Bar of New Jersey; Board of Regents, National College of District Attorneys; Board of Governors, Daytop Village Foundation, Inc; Board of Trustees, Daytop Village Foundation, Inc.
Mr. Gil Donaldson
Independent Film Producer, Donaldson Polakoff Productions. Senior Advisor, Atlantic Trust Company, Private Wealth Management. Board Member, The Merchant and Ivory Foundation.
Mr. Michael Doyle
Founder, Memeworks. Management Consultant. Author: How To Hold a Good Meeting.
Mr. Joseph Dubbs
Currently in the University of Notre Dame studying Management Information System. Serves as Director of Information Technology for Student International Business Council of Notre Dame. Spent this past summer teaching English at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
Mr. David E. Dunn
Partner, Patton Boggs Law Firm, Washington; D.C. Chairman of the Board, U-Paid Systems, Ltd.; Managing Partner, Bozman Partners Investment Fund LLC, USA and France; Advisor to the Governments of Oman and Qatar on National Security Relations with the US. Founder, European Centre of Public Affairs (ECPA) at Templeton College, Oxford University. Government. Formerly: Assistant to President of OPIC, Dept. of State; Political Director, Democratic Party of the US; Founding Advisory Board member - Democratic Leadership Council.
Dr. Sylvia Dutcher (Mrs. Phil Gagner)
Senior researcher and manager at the nonprofit MITRETEK corporation near Washington, D.C., and as such has supported the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the past 13 years. The mission of NIH includes conducting research, supporting the research of other scientists, training of researchers, and fostering communication of medical and health sciences information. Most recently Dr. Dutcher has been Project Manager for the group that tests and validates computer applications designed and developed for NIH use. .Dr. Dutcher has a Doctorate degree in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence from George Washington University.
Mr. Bruno Erhard-Steiner
Executive Director of the Institut Montaigne, a French Think Tank. Formerly: personal collaborator of Claude Bébéar, chairman of AXA; Deputy Secretary-General of the Europe of Nations Parliamentary Group chaired by Sir James Goldsmith.
Professor Pierre Encrevé
Professor of Linguistics and Semantics at the "Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales". Author.
Mrs. Marie-Hélène Encrevé Lambert
Author.
Mr. Alberto Finol
International investor.
Mrs. Corina Finol
Mr. Brian Fix
Attorney. Cabinet Salans, Hertzfeld & Heilbronn.
Professor Kate Fowkes
Director and Associate Professor of Media Studies at High Point University. She is a script consultant and screenwriter and her research interests include the study of the supernatural, narrative, and gender in Hollywood films. Recent book publications include "Giving Up", "The Ghost: Spirits, Ghosts and Angels in Mainstream Comedy Films", and the forthcoming "Spectral America". She is also a contributor to "The Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film", to be published by Scribner's.
Mrs. Helen Freeman
Reading Classics at King's College, London.
Mr. Ronald Freeman
Director of Russian and Central European companies, including: Troika Dialog, Moscow; Norilsk Nickel, Moscow; Pliva Pharmaceutical, Zagreb. Former Co-CEO - Europe of Salomon Smith Barney; former First Vice President, Head of Banking Dept., European Bank for Reconstruction & Development.
Mr. Boris Frochen
Consultant. Joined the Decision Consulting firm in 2003 where he conducted a survey on Foreign Investment Strategies in the European and American Defense Industries for the French Ministry of Defense and currently works on monographic publications for the Délégation Générale à l'Armement (French Defense Procurement Agency).
Ms. Ivana Fuka
Graphic designer, founder and creative director of the graphic design agency High Street Studios. Born in Prague, she studied art in New York and Paris. Holds a degree from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and a degree in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology from the University of Paris VII. Formerly practiced as a psychoanalyst specialized in art therapy.
Mr. Phil Gagner
Partner in the Washington, D.C. Firm of Shaughnessy, Volzer & Gagner, specializing in Computer and Intellectual Property Law. He is also Executive Vice President of NetSecure Solutions, Inc. Formerly: Senior Computer Scientist: Digital Equipment Corporation, then the Federal Judicial Center in the United States and also the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at M.I.T.
Mr. Robert Gogel
Chief Executive Officer, RebusIS, a software firm based in London owned by General Atlantic and Warburg Pincus. Formerly COO of Antfactory, a VC firm; EVP at AXA, the global insurer; EVP at Siemens Nixdorf, a computer hardware and services firm; President, Gemini Consulting (France), a management consulting firm. Author of numerous articles and books on strategy, corporate culture, and financial services. Holds the teaching chair for consulting in the MBA program at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France. Vice Chairman of the American Library in Paris.
Dr. Sandra Gogel
President, La Source Parisienne. a consultancy specializing in helping individuals purchase antiques at auction houses and various antique markets throughout France. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and has many years of teaching and research experience. She has authored a college textbook, A Grammar of Epigraphic Hebrew, and serves as a Board member of various cultural and educational organizations in the Paris region. She also serves as a Board member at the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Mr. Armando Gonzales
Ravenpack AG.
Mr. Markus Gresch
Attorney at law. Partner, Gresch & Schwab.
Mr. Dennis Griesing
Student of epistemology and ontology. He is currently Vice President, Government Affairs for the Soap and Detergent Association in the U.S. where he is involved in energy, environmental, advertising and agriculture policy matters. He has been a lobbyist for over 25 years. He is a former Peace Corps Volunteer (Brazil) and community organizer/anti-poverty worker.
Mr. Bill Grinstein
Associate Director for Public Affairs of Battelle's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Responsible for business and government relations and outreach in order to accomplish greater utilization of publicly funded research and development by both industry and government within the Northwest region. Formerly: Assistant Director for Technology Transfer for the Laboratory. Member of the boards of: the Washington Biotechnology & Biomedical Association, Washington State Humanities Commission as vice chairman, as well as a member of the advisory board of the Puget Sound Blood Bank.
Mrs. Renée Haferkamp
Former Director General of the European Commission. She has participated in all the important milestones in the development of the European Union, from the period of Paul Henri Spaak and Jean Monnet to Jacques Delors and Romano Prodi. Currently organizing lectures series on the recent developments of the European Union: "Visions for European Governance", with Xavier Solana and Valery Giscard d'Estaing, at Harvard University, and" Challenges for the 21st Century" with Bill Clinton and many other personalities at New-York University's Law School.
Ms. Jenny Hamilton
Nutritionist.
Mr. Steve Hansen
Most recently Steve Hansen was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Avamar Technologies, a data storage software company. Formerly: CEO of GeoCities; Sr. Vice President & Chief Financial Officer for the Recreation Division of Universal Studios; Partner with KPMG Peat Marwick in the Entertainment, Media and Technology Group.
Mr. David Hayden
Executive Chairman of JetEye LLC and CEO of JetEyeNetwork (2002). Founder of: Magellan Search (1994), Critical Path (1999 NASDAQ: CPTH), Archipelago LLC (2000), NameTree (2000). Board Member: Andale, GGNPA. Former Boards: Spectrum Holobyte, MeetWorldTrade, Arzoon, eHatchery, E*Trade; Keynotes Speaker: World Bank Gov't Borrower's Forum, Rome (2001), Red Herring Venture Mkt. East, Boston, (2000). Dedicated to vision and leadership. Currently developing a new global solution for authentication and identity management.
Mr. Rodolphe de Hemptinne
Wharton MBA candidate 2004. Summer associate with Bain & Company in Boston. Former euroShell manager for the BeNeLux. Project and process engineer for Shell in Ghent and Plasticos Fuentes in Mexico. Masters degree in Applied Mechanics from the Universite Catholique de Louvain. Passionate mountain climber - at 28 years of age, the youngest Belgian climber to reach the summit of an 8000m peak (Cho Oyu, Nepal-Tibet). Summitted Alpamayo (Peru), Denali (Alaska), Iztaccihuatl (Mexico).
Mr. Paul Horne
Independent Market Economist and financial writer. Retired in 2001 as European Equity Market Economist and Managing Director of Salomon Smith Barney. Has analyzed European market economics from Rome, Brussels, Paris and London since 1960. His article "Does Enronitis Threaten the Dollar and U.S. Economy? American and French Views" October 2002, was awarded a prize for one of the best economic analysis from the National Association for Business Economics
Ms. Cynthia Howar
Attorney/Consultant with more than twenty-five years of both business, policy and legal experience in healthcare and technology, with emphasis on U.S. governmental health care policies and programs, healthcare delivery systems, health informatics and telemedicine, privacy and data protection, homeland defense, military transfer technology and telecommunications. Member of several US Government information and health policy committees between 1994-2000. Created first global telemedicine and health informatics conference for the US government in 1996. Provided strategic marketing and government relations counsel to several Fortune 1000 companies and small businesses. Member, Task Force on Healthcare for the Americas, Pan American Health Organization. Helped establish the Marshall Legacy Foundation and its focus on humanitarian demining. Member and an officer of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Immunology & Aging, an international non-profit health organization. Member of the Board of Visitors of Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC since 1989.
Ms. Sally Hunter
Founder, Video Base International, a Producer of Political Documentary Films. Formerly: General Manager and Senior Producer of Newsweek's Video Division. She has produced political films and campaign biographies in Spanish, French, Italian, Serbo-Croat, Arabic, Portuguese and Japanese as well as in English. She also has produced infomercials, market videos and voter motivation materials for a number of countries. She calls her reality-based production style "The Uncommercial".
Mr. David Ignatius
Columnist, The Washington Post. Author of 5 novels: Agents of Innocence; "SIRO; The Bank of Fear"; A Firing Offense; and The Sun King. Formerly: Editor in Chief - International Herald Tribune; Foreign Editor, Washington Post, Middle East Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Eve Ignatius
Computer Scientist with expertise in data visualization
Mr. Martin D. Jacobson
Attorney. Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York City. Listed in 'Who's Who Legal, The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, 2003-2004 Edition' and in 'Chamber's USA -America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2003-2004'. Founding Chair of the Committee on Project Finance, New York City Bar Association.
Mrs. Mary Jacobson
Member/Representative Town Meeting, Greenwich, CT; Vice-Chair of the Board, Greenwich Library; Formerly, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, in a New York suburban School District, and school counselor."
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.
Mrs. Didi Jasmin
Ms. Betsy Jolas
Composer. Studied at the National Paris Conservatory under Darius Milhaud and Olivier Messiaen. Was Messiaen's assistant at the Conservatory in 1971, then was appointed herself professor of composition and analysis. Participated in the post-webernian adventure of the immediate after-war and was a " fellow-traveller" of serialism. Won many awards both in France and abroad. To name only a few: Copley Foundation, American Academy of Arts, Koussevitsky Foundation, Grand Prix National , Prix de la ville de Paris, Prix International M. Ravel, Berlin Prize. She became a member of the American Academy of Arts and letters in 1983, of Arts and Sciences in 1995 and was made Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1997.
Dr. Robert Kaplan
Economist. President, Beacon Consulting Group (strategic planning and corporate strategy). Formerly; Professor of Business Economics.
Lara Joy Koerner
Actress.
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.
Lucy Komisar
Journalist and author on international 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 USA: A History of Public Welfare; The New Feminism. Articles on political subjects from about 40 countries for the major U.S. newspapers. Strategic briefing paper for the Rockefeller Foundation on how to approach the human rights situation in South Korea (1995). Lecturer at New School for Social Research, NYC, on "Foreign Political Conflicts and Struggles for Democracy." Radio Commentator for "In The Public Interest."
Mr. N. Peter Kostopulos
Partner, Womble Carlyle, Washington D.C., Chair of Strategic Alliances Committee of the U.S.-Canada Licensing Executive Society. Practice focuses on intellectual property transactions and litigation, and represents biotech and pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. and Europe. Formerly: Antitrust Counsel at the Federal Trade Commission, and senior trial counsel at the Department of Justice.
Alexander Kovrig
Currently in his last year at the Lycée Carnot in Paris. He is especially interested in the study of international relations, philology and science.
Mr. Robert Lavinia
Chairman, Telesuite Corporation. Board Member, University of Arizona College of Business and Public Administration ; The Life Development Institute in Glendale, Arizona and is a member of the 25 Year Club of the Petroleum Industry. He has served on two of the Arizona Governor's task forces and is an active participant in the Greater Phoenix Leadership Council. Formerly: President, Hill Petroleum Company; President of Tosco Northwest.
Mrs. Ruth Lavinia
Charitable work. Fund raiser for: Phoenix Symphony, Crisis Nursery, Cancer Society, Heart Ball and Boys and Girls Clubs. Board Member: Women's Board of Barrow Neurological Institute Foundation at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix; The Life Development Institute (LDI), which is a program in Arizona for young adults with learning disabilities and related disorders.
Mme Noëlle Lenoir
French Minister of European Affairs. Formerly : Conseiller d'Etat; Member of French Constitutional Court; President of UNESCO's Bioethics Committee (wrote Univeral Declaration on the Human Genome and the Rights of Man adopted by the UN); President, E.U. Commission on Scientific Ethics and New Technology.
Professor Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie
Historian. Membre, Institut Français. Emeritus Professor at the Collège de France. Author.
Mme Leroy Ladurie
Ms. Sandy Libby
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Treasurer for The Rendon Group.
Ms. Karen Longeteig
Going Native Co. Garden Design. Formerly: U.S. Foreign Service Officer; Chairman, USA Girl Scouts Overseas.
Susie Lubomirski
Business Development Consultant. Conference Consultant. Former Director of Conferences for the International Herald Tribune.
Mr. Andy Maclellan
Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Dolce International which is an International Conference Destination and Resort Company. Formerly: Vice President and Managing Director of Holiday Inn World Wide (Now Intercontinental Hotels and Resorts); Vice President Resorts Westin Hotels and founder/ owner/ operator of The Austin Lomas Group. Born and raised in Mexico City, he lived in the USA for 30 years and now resides in Paris.
Mrs. June Maclellan
House wife, volunteer and antique collector.
Mr. Jeff Madrick
Editor of Challenge Magazine and a contributing economics columnist at The New York Times. He teaches at Cooper Union and New School University. Author. His most recent book is "Why Economies Grow".
Mr. Akio Makiyama
Chairman, Forum for Urban Development; Governor, ULI (Urban Land Institute) Foundation; Akio Makiyama is a global project organizer and producer in the domains of Urban Development, Business and Culture. Mr. Makiyama is currently working to establish a new institute on global governance.
Mr. John Marks
Founder and President, Search for Common Ground and the European Centre for Common Ground; currently resident in Jerusalem and co-director with Susan Collin Marks of the organizations' Middle East program; former US Foreign Service Officer, executive assistant to US Senator, best-selling and award-winning author; former Fellow, Harvard University's Institute of Politics and Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School.
Mrs. Susan Collins Marks
Executive Vice President of Search for Common Ground; currently resident in Jerusalem and co-director with John Marks of Middle East program; Author "Watching the Wind" about the South African peace process; Co-founder and Board Chair, The Coexistence Initiative; Founding editor, "Track Two"; former mediator in the South African peace process; former Peace Fellow, United States Institute of Peace
M. Hubert Martin
Chairman, Monte Paschi Banque; Vice President, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); President, French ICC Banking Commission; Member, ICC International Finance Committee.
Mr. Zane McCarthy
Founder, Austin Unleashed Wireless; former Director of Network Security for Akoura Biometrics. He has spent his career in various aspects of the IT and wireless telecom/network industry, focusing primarily on enterprise system engineering and large-scale networking and security applications. He also founded three startup companies, including Hushmail, and Ultimate Privacy. He is currently working on several related patents.
Mr. Christopher McGoff
Founder and CEO of Touchstone Consulting (formerly GDSS) in Washington, DC., a management consultancy with a long heritage of serving senior executives in the public sector. Founded in 1991, Touchstone is currently assisting the executive branch of the federal government in efforts regarding homeland security, electronic government, intelligence integration, and critical infrastructure protection. Pioneer in the integration of powerful knowledge management and work group technology with fundamental behavioral science, organizational development principles, culture assessment, and process design.
The Hon. Anthony J. Mohr
Judge of the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles. Distinguished Service Award, Beverly Hills Bar Association. Author. Memberships: Judicial member of the Board of Governors, Association of Business Trial Lawyers of Los Angeles; Consultant to Center for Judicial Education and Research; Member, Ethics Committee of the California Judges Association; Formerly: Board of Directors of Mental Health Advisory Services; Faculté Internationale pour l'Enseignement du Droit Comparé, Mondovi, Italy.
Ms. Gay D. Morgan
Senior Lecturer in Constitutional Law and in Legal Philosophy, University of Waikato School of Law, Hamilton, New Zealand. Formerly worked for the US Court of Appeals. Joined the Peace Corps to teach mathematics and physics in Zaire and to work with community groups of women on collective agricultural enterprises in Burkina Faso. Also worked on solar energy projects with NASA in Burkina Faso. Worked in Senegal, Burundi and Mauritania on a variety of agriculture and water projects.
Mrs. Candace Nancel
Operations Officer, Hôtel de Talleyrand, U.S. Embassy, Paris
M. Frédéric Nancel
Director of Development and Operations, Chateau de Chantilly. Formerly: Executive with Vivendi Group; Group Accord; Club Mediterranée; Vice-president, Founding member of SNELAC (French organization for leisure, amusement and cultural centers); Chairman of the Franco-American Community Center.
Mr. Joe Napolitan
Believed to be the first person ever to describe himself as a political consultant. He has been advising candidates, political parties and governments since 1956, and has worked in more than 20 countries on five continents. He has been a consultant to nine foreign heads of state and in 2002 was selected by PR Weekly as one of the 100 most influential PR people of the 20th century. He is the founder of the American Association of Political Consultants and cofounder of the International Association of Political Consultants. He also is treasurer and a member of the board of the International Foundation for Election Systems. Napolitan is the author of 'The Election Game' and '100 Things I Have Learned as a Political Consultant.'
Mrs. Jane Narich
Development campaign director, American school of Paris.
Ambassador Richard Narich
Special Adviser to the Director, Geneva Center for Security Policy. Formerly: Consul General of France in the United States (based in Chicago and in charge of the Midwest); French Ambassador to Paraguay and Nicaragua.
The Hon. Frank N. Newman
Chief Executive, The Broad Center (for management of school systems). Chairman Emeritus, Bankers Trust Company. Advisor to international private equity firms. Director of Dow Jones & Company, Korea First Bank, and GUS plc (UK). Member of the Advisory Board of Renault & Nissan. Member of the boards of the Carnegie Hall Society and Weill Cornell Medical College. Formerly: Deputy Secretary of the United States Treasury Department, and its chief operating officer; Vice-Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, BankAmerica Corporation: Chief Financial Officer, Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco.
Mrs. Lizabeth Newman
Philanthropist, music lover, educator and Shakespeare aficionado. Director of her family foundation. Her board memberships span the arts spectrum, namely, Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; Trustee, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre; Trustee, Royal Shakespeare Company; Trustee, New York Philharmonic; Committee, Women's Health Symposium; Advisory Council Member, American Museum of Natural History and former Trustee, Wheaton College.
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. 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.
Maître Lucie A. Carswell-Parmentier
Attorney-at-law (Washington DC Bar), and Avocat 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
Lawyer, in private practice, commercial real estate and land use and development. President, Aventura Vintners.
Mr. Toby Paterson
Senior developer for Apple Computer. Most recently, he worked on Apple's iSync product and is now leading the design of Apple's next-generation synchronization technology. Formerly, worked for NeXT Software.
Mrs. Emily Lodge Pingeon
Journalist and speechwriter. Currently writing a family memoir. Sings with the Paris Choral Society.
Mr. Robert Pingeon
C.E.O., Conti international, a Paris based European Affairs consultancy, working with clients in Iarq. Chairman Republicans Abroad Europe.
Ms. Shireen Piramoon
President, Archipelago LLC; VP Marketing and Business Development, JetEye Technology; Formerly headed PR for Critical Path; Co-Founder of EMG, a branding and marketing company.
Ms. Carol Lorraine 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 US Public Television and have been shown theatrically. She is currently living and working in Paris, developing movie projects and writing screenplays.
Dr. Heiner Pollert
CEO of RavenPack AG and PatentPool-Group, Munich, 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. Doctor of Laws
Mr. Eduardo Punset
Professor of Economic Policy at the Chemical Institute of Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. Director and Producer of Networks, a weekly program of Spanish public television on Science. Formerly: Chairman of the Bull Technological Institute, Professor of Innovation and Technology at Madrid University, and IMF Representative in the Caribbean. He actively participated in the Spanish political transition to democracy as Minister for Relations with the European Union, and Member of the European Parliament. Author, A Field Guide to Survive in the XXI st Century.
Dr. Chris Quigg
Director, Theoretical Physics Department. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Formerly: Deputy Director for Operations, Superconducting Super Collider Central Design Group. 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.
Mr. Olivier Raffit
Founder and President DPI Conseil. Developer of Internet applications for the French Real Estate Industry.
Mr. John Rendon
CEO 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 counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation and counter-incitement environments. Currently advising the US Government on the War Against Terrorism.
Ambassador James Rentschler
Author. Formerly: US Ambassador to Malta and Guinea; Director of Press and Communications OECD; Director West European and North African Affairs, National Security Council.
Mr. Conrad Riggs
Chairman, Cloudbreak Entertainment.
Monsieur Michel Rocard
Member of the European Parliament. President of the Commission on Culture, Youth, Education, Media and Sport 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.
Mrs. Sylvie Pelissier-Rocard
Former Director, La Poste Foundation
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.
Mrs. Rachel Rose
Officer in Israeli Air Force Intelligence.
Mrs. Amelia (Amy) Rossini
Managing Director, RR Partners. Formerly; Director of Congressional Projects, Telemus Solutions; Congressional Liaison, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, United States Department of Energy; Senior White House Special Events Staff, Directed White House Advance Teams, Director: The Presidential Inaugural Committee, The White House; Legislative Director, State Bar of California.
Mr. Mark Rossini
Supervisory Special Agent Mark Rossini, FBI, assigned to the Counterterrorist Center, CIA in Langley, Virginia
Ms. Sarah Rothenberg
Pianist; Artistic Director of Da Camera of Houston., one of the U.S.'s leading chamber music series. Formerly co-founder and co-Artistic Director of the Bard Music Festival. Concretizes internationally. Recent performances Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York; Kennedy Center, Washington; Kravis Center, Palm Beach; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Menil Collection, Houston; The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; Barbican Center, London; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Noted for the creation of innovative multi-disciplinary concert presentations linking music to the literary and visual arts (Marcel Proust's Paris, The Musical World of Thomas Mann, St Petersburg Legacy, Epigraph for a Condemned Book: Chopin and Baudelaire). Received the INDIE "Best Solo Classical Recording" award for Fanny Mendelssohn's Das Jahr (Arabesque). In 2000 was decorated as "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres". Writings on cultural subjects published in The Musical Quarterly, Conjunctions, The Crisis of Criticism, Nexus.
Mr. Hardy Schloer
C.T.O., RavenPack AG Germany, System Software Developer in the area of integrated artificial intelligence systems for scientific research and business applications. 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.
Inez Schreiden
Secretary-General of Forum 21. Professor of cross-cultural management at the University of Paris-Dauphine and INSEEC. Member of the International Advisory Board of Parra, Rodriguez and Cavelier.
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.
Professor Joseph Silk
Cosmologist and astrophysicist. Savilian Professor of Astronomy, Head of the Department of Astrophysics, Oxford University. Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Royal Society, and Honorary of the French Physical Society. Author: "The Big Bang", "A Short History of the Universe," "Galaxy Formation", "Cosmic Enigma ", " The Left Hand of Creation" (with John Barrow).
Judge Jacqueline Riffault-Silk
President in the 1st and the 5th chambers of the Court of Appeal of Paris, which deal with economic affairs, both on the regulatory and civil litigation sides.Vice-President of the Association of European Criminal Research (Association des Recherches Pénales Européennes, Paris). Member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Franco-British Lawyers and of the Association of European Judges in Competition Law. Author: Bi-annual chronicle on financial affairs and stock-exchange matters for the Revue de Science Criminelle et de Droit Pénal Comparé.
Mme Mary-Ethel Simeonides
President, Atalanta International (Public Relations)
Mme Vanda Tabery (Mrs. Georges Zeisel)
Soprano, has been invited regularly on opera stages, such as the Praha Chamber Opera or the Opéra de Nantes, and has taken part in several festivals, including the Musical Spring of Prague, the Bologna Festival, and the Epau Festival. She has given many recitals and concerts, both with orchestras - Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, France National Orchestra... - and chamber music ensembles. Particularly interested in the Czech repertory and the Vienna school, she has also inspired and created several contemporary pieces, by composers such as Pascal Dusapin, Philippe Fénelon or Jan Klusàk.
Mr. Jay Theise
Attorney, Rubin and Rudman LLP. Member, Harvard University College of Public Health Advisory Board. Formerly: President, Massachusetts College of Art Foundation.
Mr. Mitch Thrower
CEO, General Manager and Co-founder of The Active Europe Network. Co-founder of Active Network USA. Owner and Director of Triathlete Magazine and President and CEO of The College Connection, Inc. and The Rail Connection. Author and monthly columnist. 13-time Ironman Triathlete. Lecturer, University of San Diego. Author: The Small Business Guide to Small Business Awards, and, The Passport Travel Guide.
Ms. Jenny Toomey
Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition.
Ambassador Jean-Daniel Tordjman
Inspecteur Général des Finances en service extraordinaire. President, 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. David Turner
Deputy pro-Chancellor and Vice Chairman of Council at City University, London; Chairman of WSP Group, plc, global consultants in the natural and built environment. Director of Falcon Property Trust, non-Executive Director of Royal Mail Group Property Holdings, and GCDA, a UK government agency, and consultant to Sodexho Defense services. Formerly: Chief Executive of Barclays Property Holdings Ltd and a Divisional Director of Barclays Bank plc. Awarded a Doctor of Science by City University.
Mrs. Aude de la Vallée Poussin
Charity in developing countries. Les Femmes d'Europe.
Mr. Gérard de la Vallée Poussin
Director of a mining consultancy and co-founder of a Fund for private equity investment in new mining projects. 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), CEO of Kaines UK, a commodity trading company, and co-founder in 1995 of Freewheel Limited, a film production finance company.
Mr. Nicolas de la Vallée Poussin
Fulbright Scholar at Wharton Business School. Formerly, Management consultant for Bain and Company, UK. Commercial analyst for Allied Domecq Spirits and Wines Ltd and worked for Anglo American Corporation in West Africa.
M. Pierre Valletaux
Banker.
Mr. David Varney
Chairman of MMO2. Chairman, Business in the Community. Chairman of a Government Steering Group to drive a Waste Implementation Program. President of Council for the Institute of Employment Studies. Member of the IoD's new Professional Standards Advisory Board. Formerly: C.E.O., British Gas; Director, Shell International.
Dr. Pat Varney
Medical Doctor. Interested in Devices and assistance for the Handicapped.
Dr. Michèle Verschoore
International Scientific Director, General Management of Research, L'Oréal. Associate Consulting Dermatologist, Dept of Dermatology, Hôpital Ambroise Paré. Associate Professor, Nanjing Skin Institute, University of Nanjing, China. Board Memberships: International Society of Cosmetic Dermatology; Société de Recherche Dermatologique; International Society of Dermatology. American Academy of Dermatology. Author.
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. Paul Weinstein
Founder of Forum 21. President, Rive Droite Investments Limited; Senior Associate, The Keefe Company, a Public Policy firm in Washington, DC; Board Member of: U-Paid Systems, Ltd.; Centre Pour les Études des Communications Internationales; American Friends of the French Center on the U.S;. Centre pour les Études des Communications Internationales (CECI). Formerly: International tax attorney; CPA - Price Waterhouse & Co.; Adjunct Professor of Law - University of California.
Mr. John Willis
Englishman having lived in France for 38 years. Turnaround and management specialist for small and medium sized French companies. Formerly: Computer engineering member of French Government multi-discipline scientific team to China during the Cultural Revolution. Ex roving representative for the French Computer Industry for implementation of computer manufacturing facilities in developing countries. Former French Champion Gas Balloon pilot.
Professor Alya Aglan-Wismann
Historian. Institute of Political Studies of Paris. Author: La Résistance sacrifiée; Mémoires résistantes.
Professor Heinz Wismann
Philosopher. Directeur de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Mr. Graham Wisner
Attorney. Patton Boggs, Washington, DC. Lecturer, BCIU-American University in Washington, D.C. speaking on topics including Middle East legal systems, United States foreign corrupt practices laws, and the boycott of Israel laws. Memberships: Council on Foreign Relations, International Bar Association, Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C. Formerly: Member, Board of Trustees for the Environmental Defense Fund and the Mayor's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency.
Mr. Donald Wolf
Founder and President of European Property Partners USA and TIGRE France.
Mrs. Jean Wolf
Educational Consultant with Dunbar Educational Consultants.
Mr. Alejandro Wolff
Deputy Chief of Mission, US Embassy, Paris. Formerly: Washington, DC: Executive Assistant to the US Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell; Policy Planning Staff; Office of Soviet Union Affairs; Office of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department. Overseas: assignments in Algeria, Chile, Cyprus, and the US Mission to the EU in Brussels. Recipient of the State Department's Distinguished, Superior, and Meritorious Honor Awards.
Mrs. Alexandra Wolff
Fellow traveler.
Ms. Cathy Wright
KPM Approach to Children, Classical Feng Shui consultation.
Mr. Ronald Zeghibe
CEO, 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.
Mr. Georges Zeisel
Founder-Director of ProQuartet-European Centre of Chamber Music. 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. He has been commissioned by French Ministry of Cultural Affairs to build up the European Centre for Chamber Music in the "Quartier Henri IV" of the Château de Fontainebleau, which will be restored for this purpose. Restoration work is planned to start in October 2003, and to be completed in 2007. Activities of the Centre will start gradually from 2005 on.
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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