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FORUM 21 2005 PARTICIPANTS
April 2005
April 2005
Mr. Robert Abernethy
Real Estate Developer; CEO of American Standard Development Company; Trustee, Johns Hopkins University and Loyola Marymount University; Member of Harvard Partners & UCLA Chancellor's Cabinet; Board Member of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship; Board Member of the Music Center Los Angeles County & the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Board Member of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles; Former Board member of the California State Board of Education, Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles Planning Commission.
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.
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. Adam Baker, PhD
Advanced Technology Manager, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. University of Surrey. Ph.D in Materials Science from Oxford University. 3 years working for a British government research laboratory on a variety of topics ranging from advising the government on technology topics affecting space policy, understanding how to build safe nuclear reactors to provide power for human Mars exploration, and trying out new materials for space based telescopes. When not trying to work out how to get to Mars or the Moon on a budget, or take better images of the Earth for natural disaster monitoring, he is passionate about wind power and other forms of alternative energy, as well as micro- and nano-technology and their implications for improving quality of life. He aspires to explore the oceans, our last continent, from above and below one day.
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 the Artistic Director, actress and singer of the Kotodama Company Association.
Mr. Farouk A. Bawah
Technical Manager of Mellow Ventures, Accra, Ghana.
The Hon. Dr. 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. Cassie Berg
Goldsmith, Designer Agent in fashion.
Professor Michael S. Bernstam
Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Bernstam is an economist who studies economic systems in their relationship with income, population, financial development, natural resources, the environment, conflict, and other social change. Currently working on "From Predation to Prosperity: How to Move from Socialism to Markets" (with Alvin Rabushka). Survey designer and analyst for the National Economic Survey of Iraq sponsored by the U.S. State Department and the U.N.Development Program. During 1991-1995, Bernstam served as economic adviser to the Russian Parliament, the Central Bank of Russia, and the Russian government. In 2002, he helped the Soros Foundation redesign its programs on economic development in Russia. Author of numerous books, papers and articles. Regular commentator on the U.S. economy, Iraq and the greater Middle East for the BBC, Radio Liberty (which now includes Radio Iraq), and others.
Ms. Celestine Bohlen
International affairs reporter for Bloomberg News, based in Paris. As correspondent for first the Washington Post and then The New York Times, she spent a total of 10 years in Moscow on three separate tours between 1984 and 2000, and has returned since several times on assignment for Bloomberg. Her other foreign assignments for the New York Times included Rome and Budapest, covering the eastern Mediterranean and central Europe.
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.
Ms. Gwendoline Brucker
Director of Conferences, OECD; PhD, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; University of Paris Sorbonne.
Mr. Rupert Carter
Travel Agent, Biologist and Thinker.
Dr. Divya Chander
Anesthesia resident at the University of California, San Francisco, Divya earned a B.A. at Harvard and an M.D. and a Ph.D. in neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego. Her doctoral thesis investigated gain control in the neural retina, but more globally, she is interested in neural coding, wiring and plasticity in the brain. Her interests in the nature of cognition and consciousness naturally led her to the clinical field of anesthesia. On a parallel track, Divya has a deep abiding interest in manned spaceflight and exploration. She recently interviewed at NASA for the astronaut corps, and has been involved in space physiology and medicine as we as more general issues of habitability in spaceflight since 1991. She identifies exploration, the environment, and alternative energy as three of today's most important issues.
Dr. Sandra Citi
Lecturer, University of Geneva (Switzerland), and University of Padova (Italy). A graduate of University of Florence, Italy (B.Sc., MD) and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (PhD, Cambridge, UK), Dr. Citi has taught at Cornell University Medical College (New York, NY) and carried out postdoctoral work at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel). Dr. Citi is the recipient of a Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (2004-2005), as well as awards from the European Molecular Biology Organization, the British Council, and the Roche Research Foundation. The research work by Dr. Citi's group focuses on the biology of epithelial cells and has been funded, among others, by the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, the Swiss National Foundation, and the Swiss Cancer League.
Mr. Mark Cohen
Counsel, White and Case. Formerly: Deputy Assistant Attorney General Massachusetts, Co-originator of TV program "The Advocates"; International Counsel in France for Pechiney.
Mrs. Clotilde Cohen
Formerly: Director of Press Relations, Groupe Expand.
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.
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.
Dr. Stanislas Dehaene
Research director at INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la recherche médicale). He has been working since 1997 at the Orsay brain imaging center near Paris (Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot of the Commissariat A l'Energie Atomique), where he directs a research unit. Dehaene's main scientific contributions include the study of the organization of the cerebral system for number processing. Author of over 100 scientific publications in major international journals. He has received several international prizes including the McDonnell Centennial Fellowship and the Louis D prize of the French Academy of Sciences (with D. Lebihan). Associate editor of "Cognition", an international journal of Cognitive Science.
Mrs. Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
Full-time research position in CNRS (CR1) : Unité de Neuroimagerie Cognitive. MD in Pediatrics and PhD in Cognitive Science. Received a Foundation McDonnell research grant in the program "Bridging Brain Mind and Behavior"
Mr. Gil Donaldson
Independent Film Producer, Donaldson Polakoff Productions. Senior Advisor, Atlantic Trust Company, Private Wealth Management. Board Member, The Merchant and Ivory Foundation.
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.
Mrs. Linda Fareed
Legal Analyst for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in the field of Antitrust Litigation. From late 1974 through 1978 she worked for Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman, Machtinger & Kinsella LLP in General Litigation. In 1992, she and Donald Fareed founded Pro Band Sports Industries, Inc. for the purpose of manufacturing and distributing sports medical products designed to treat and prevent repetitive stress injuries of the forearm and knee. Today these devices are sold worldwide.
Dr. Donald Fareed
Internationally known practicing orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist. In 1992, Pro Band Industries, Inc. was created for purposes of manufacturing and distributing innovative preventative and treatment remedies for Repetitive Stress Injuries associated with the forearm and knee. These unique medically based devices enable the consumer to efficiently and effectively treat oneself. He designed the Band-It and Kneed-It based on over 23 years of clinical observation and treatment of Repetitive Stress Injuries. Donald is a long time consultant to professional sports teams, members of the Davis Cup and Olympic athletes. He is currently in practice--Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Specializing in Shoulder, Elbow, and Knee; Santa Barbara, CA.
Mr. Mike Fliderbaum
CEO, Beldor Business Corporation AG.
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.
Mr. Oliver Freeman
Director and co-founder of the Neville Freeman Agency. Co-founder of GBN Australia. The Agency is designed as the stopping place for all 'futurists' in Australia. Freeman is also a publisher in the US and in Australia, with a special emphasis on academic, business and professional topics. Director of the Australian Business Foundation. Chair of VISCOPY Ltd - the visual arts collecting society. Author, "Embracing Uncertainty: Using Scenarios to Create Strategy for Alternative Futures", in the proceedings of the International Future of the Book Conference Cairns 2003.
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. Joseph Gaggero
Student. Sophomore at the University of San Diego. Majoring in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance, and minoring in Philosophy and Spanish. Member of USD's Student International Business Council. Played on USD's baseball team last year.
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. Douglas Glucroft
Attorney at Law with Kahn and Associés. Particularly involved with high-technology companies and venture capital companies. Member of the board of Kehilat Gesher, a French-English liberal synagogue in the Paris area.
Mr. Armando Gonzales
Ravenpack AG.
Mr. Jay Gottlieb
Pianist and composer. Studied with Nadia Boulanger, Olivier Messiaen, Yvonne Loriod, Robert Casadesus, Aloys Kontarsky, Lukas Foss. Laureate of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation. Recipient of: Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation Grant, National Endowment for the Arts Grant, French Government Grant, First Prize in the International Improvisation Competition in Lyons, Lili Boulanger Prize, Grand Prix du Disque of the French Recording Academy, the Diapason d'Or, the "Choc" in Le Monde de la Musique Festival de Paris Prize, Master Award at the Berkshire Music Festival, Tanglewood. He has recorded for Philips, RCA, Harmonia Mundi, Erato, Ogam; and several film soundtracks. Co-author of Piano Of The 20th Century, published by the Cité de la Musique, Paris.
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. Susan Grinstein
Sales and design consultant for the Carlisle Collection of New York. Member of he governing board of Pacific Northwest Ballet and has been active in a variety of other organizations and activities, including Seattle Art Museum Supporters, The Junior League of Seattle, chairing the Historic Sites Preservation Committee. She served as Event Chair for the Reelect Gardner for Governor Campaign as well as on many charitable fund raising committees. She has served on the boards of Historic Seattle, Empty Space Theater and Bill Evans -Dance Theater Seattle.
Mr. Jay K. Gruner
President of J.K. Gruner & Associates. Served in the Central Intelligence Agency for 33 years and rose to head one of CIA's largest and most important geographical divisions. He also served as Chief of Station in four key countries in Latin America, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Following his retirement he joined the Surveys and Investigations Staff of the House Committee on Appropriations.
Mr. David Hayden
Enjoys technology, finance and international development. He has 10 years of experience in private capital, leveraged transactions and mergers and acquisitions, and works as a business development consultant to early-stage companies in consumer and enterprise technology environments. Recently David directed humanitarian relief in Afghanistan, first as CFO, then as a regional coordinator, for the Agence d'Aide à la Coopération Technique et au Développement (ACTED).
Dr. Tom Hill
After 26 years in public education and at 50 years of age, Dr. Tom Hill left the University of Missouri, where he was a professor and administrator, to pursue an entrepreneurial career in real estate franchise sales. Developed two RE/MAX regions, which in a little over 10 years did over 3 billion in sales. One of Tom's passions is to make a major and positive difference in as many lives as possible. He accomplishes this through his speaking, writing and through his Eagle Institute seminars. Author, "Living at the Summit", co-author of the companion workbook "Life Plan" and co-authoring the upcoming "Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneurial Soul". Tom is an airplane pilot, marathon runner, mountain climber, skydiver, writer and speaker.
Mrs. Betty Hill
Mr. John Hollaway
Mining consultant who specializes in policy and technology for small and medium scale mining enterprises in developing countries. In the 1950s he worked as a schoolboy on his father's small gold mine in the then Southern Rhodesia, and after a career in major mining houses, he commenced his consultancy in 1981. Since that time it has served numerous clients in Africa and beyond, including the multilateral donor agencies and a number of NGO's. Work has been undertaken in 23 sub-Saharan African states, as well as countries in Asia, South America and Europe. John Hollaway's experiences led him to query both the effectiveness and the motives behind conventional development assistance. He noted that almost no aid projects, particularly in Africa, were truly sustainable, despite between fifteen and twenty billion dollars being directed at the continent annually. This led to his writing numerous papers on development-related subjects, together with the books "All Poor Together", "A Great Deal of Nonsense" and "The Burning of the Bankers".
Mrs. Sue Hollaway
Began her career teaching at Primary and Secondary schools in Southern Rhodesia and Zambia. After marrying John Hollaway in 1964 she raised a family of four children, returning to teaching in 1981. Between 1986 and 1998 she was secretary to the Resident Representative of the World Bank in Zimbabwe, followed by work as office manager of Crown Agents, an international development agency. She now is employed part-time as Parish Secretary in the local Anglican Church.
Mr. David Holtzman
Writer and technologist, concentrating on societal impacts caused by information technology. Corporate ethics and privacy columnist for CSO magazine; Editor, GlobalPOV newsletter, Director, Nanotechnology Business Alliance. Formerly: CTO, Network Solutions (ran the Internet's root server); Chief Scientist, Internet Information Technology Group, IBM; Adjunct Professor of Marketing, American University; ex-submariner, cryptographer and intelligence analyst, USN.
Mr. Koby Huberman
Corporate Vice President, Business Development of NICE, an Israeli-Global high-tech company. In charge of vision and innovation in technology, business partnerships, business development and branding. Formerly: Vice President of marketing for the Enterprise Internetworking Systems Group (EIS) of Lucent Technologies. One of the founders of Israel 2020, a non-partisan civil-society movement. Israel 2020 focuses on transforming Israeli society for the 21st century, by building a network of people, organizations and communities - to encourage a multi-facet dialogue and collaboration inside Israeli society and its various sectors, as well as between the Israeli society and the global communities.
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. Bram Hutchinson
Student. Junior at the University of San Diego with a 3.6 GPA. Business major with an emphasis in finance and a minor in Information Technology. Currently on the board of directors for SIBC as the IT director. Participant in the projects for the Finance division.
Mr. Kenneth Kaufman
Partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Represents a wide range of clients in the online, entertainment and communications industries, including television networks, e-commerce companies, new media entrepreneurs, computer and Internet technology companies, Web site operators, software developers, media and technology investors, television producers, recording artists and authors. From 1994 to 1999, he served as a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School, teaching a course on copyright, entertainment and Internet law. Formerly: General counsel of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Senior vice president, corporate affairs and general counsel of PolyGram Records, Inc.; Senior vice president, General counsel of Showtime/The Movie Channel Inc. (now known as Showtime Networks Inc.) in New York.
Alexander Kovrig
Currently in first year at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).
Ms. Laura Kullenberg
Works for the World Bank and is based in Mexico City. Responsible for the Bank's program in Colombia, and travels to the country several times a year. 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 Program 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 and Gaza, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Guatemala, Bolivia, Haiti.
Mr. Flemming Larsen
Former Deputy Director of Research of the International Monetary Fund, and former Senior Representative of the IMF in Europe. Had the responsibility for the IMF's World Economic Outlook.
Mrs. Birte Larsen
Mr. Vladimir Lebedev
Independent television producer based in Moscow, who has produced shows, programs and mini-series for various Russian TV channels.
Mr. Dan Levin
Co-founder of Xtreme Information (global media information company), residential property developer in London, a partner in Weather-Proof (weather insurance) and founder of Permanent Privacy, a data security company. Dan, 58, is an avid golfer, tennis player, skier and backgammon player. He is totally unsure of what he wants to be when he grows up.
Ms. Sandy Libby
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Treasurer for The Rendon Group.
Ms. Susan Lubomirski
Business Development Consultant. Conference Consultant. Former Director of Conferences for the International Herald Tribune.
Mr. Zachary H. Lynde
President - The Zachary Group; CEO, Akers Development Group and General Partner in Z², Ltd.; Treasurer, Austin Visual Arts Association; Member in Leadership Austin and The Austin Society. Formerly; General Partner, Gendeavor Consulting Group, LLC; CFO, American YouthWorks; COO, Logical Approach, LLC; VP Marketing and Sales for Austin Wood Recycling; Executive Director, The Institute to End School Violence; Owner, Leap of Art - art galleries; Director, Waxlander Gallery - Santa Fe, New Mexico; and management consultant, KPMG. Education: MBA Acton School of Entrepreneurship and named an Acton Scholar, BS from Austin College - Political Science/Economics/Business Administration. I am 38 and pursuing the life of my dreams getting involved in exciting projects that are highly rewarding.
Mr. Frank Madsen
Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. University doctoral candidate, Queens' College, University of Cambridge. Research Fellow, CEDS, Paris, France. Formerly: Liaison Officer & Head of Criminal Intelligence, Interpol Headquarters, Saint-Cloud, France; Director, Corporate Security, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. In August 2005, Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University Law School, Washington D. C. Interests (in declining order): Plato, Dante, Proust, Organized Crime, International Monetary Flows of Undeclared Origin.
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 Common Ground Productions; Producer and writer, Shape of the Future TV series on Israeli-Palestinian final status issues; 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 Collin Marks
Executive Vice President of Search for Common Ground; author of "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.
Mr. Zane McCarthy
General Partner in Z², Lt; Founder, Austin Unleashed Wireless LLC; Planit Planet and Infiniti Consortium Corp, Co-Founder Hushmail, Ultimate Privacy Inc. Former Director of Network Security for Akoura Biometrics and SVP for Research and Special Projects U-Paid Systems. 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. Currently working on a number of patents.
Dr. James J. McEnroe
President, Institute For Science And Health. For over twenty-five years Dr. McEnroe has held executive positions, both in not-for-profit and for-profit organizations, in the healthcare and non-healthcare fields. He has lectured in the United States, Canada, and overseas in the areas of leadership, strategic development, and creating healthy communities. Dr. McEnroe has taught at the graduate and post-graduate levels, at universities in both the United States and Canada, and has been a consultant to healthcare and non-healthcare organizations, including international research organizations, and private corporations and public health organizations.
The Hon. Anthony J. Mohr
Judge of the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles.
Mr. Philippe Montenay
Chairman and Managing Director of Toyamen SA holding company involved in private equity investment. Formerly, Managing Director of Montenay SA, major service company involved in district heating and petroleum products distribution in Europe and North America
Mme Cynthia Montenay
Former top model in Tokyo, New York, Milan and Paris.
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.
Mr. Nuhu Musah
Editor of Mellows Ventures, Accra, Ghana.
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.'
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.
Miss Caroline Narich
Student at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 2nd year BSc International Relations and History student. Flutist.
Professor Guillermo Owen
Professor of Mathematics at NPS (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA). Professor Owen held the position of Faculty Chairman in 1991-92, and was chairman of the Department of Applied Mathematics in 1998-99. Professor Owen has spent several sabbatical years abroad: in 1968-69 in Bogota, Colombia, 1975-76 in Paris, France, in 1990-91 and again in 2001 visiting various universities in Europe. Because of his research in the theory of games, he frequently visits universities, in Europe, Israel, and Latin America, to conduct research there. Professor Owen has also worked as consultant to several industrial firms and think tanks, among them the Hudson Institute (Harmon-on-Hudson, NY) and Mathematica (Princeton, NJ). He is a member of three academies of science and has served as associate editor on five scholarly journals. He was named Distinguished Professor of Mathematics in September 2003 and given an honorary degree of Naval Science Professional by the Escuela Naval Almirante Padilla of Cartagena, Colombia in June 2004. Professor Owen has a bibliography of over one hundred scholarly articles and a dozen books. He attended Princeton University and obtained his Ph. D. degree in mathematics there.
Mrs. Maria Mercedes Londono de Owen
Ms. Beverly J. Page
Charitable Fundraiser, artist. Formerly: Assistant to Chairman of the Board, Cole National Corporation; Co-Head of Conservation, the Cleveland Museum of Art. Board Member, Trustee or Advisor - Cleveland Institute of Music, Art Song Festival, Cleveland Museum of Art, Opera Antica-Palm Beach, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Ohio Arts Council, Westhaven Home for Retarded Adults.
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.
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
Dr. Christopher 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. Srinivasan Raman
Head of the Program Planning and Evaluation worldwide for Tata Consultancy Services. Award-winning historian of technology with a particular interest in the poetics of technology in post-traditional India. His research interests have centered on cultural shaping of science, technology, and medicine. Has written and published scholarly and popular essays on technology and culture in international journals and media outlets. Co-founder of two software firms in India.
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. Howard Riback
President, Keep In Touch. A company producing and providing alumni news letters for high schools. Formerly: Executive Recruiter.
Mr. Jean-François Rischard
Vice-President for Europe, World Bank. Economist, Lawyer, MBA. Founding Commissioner of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission; Member of the Governing Body of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex. Author: High Noon: Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them. Formerly: Senior Vice President for International Capital Markets, Drexel Burnham Lambert; President of Professional Bankers' Association.
Mme Jacqueline Rischard
Formerly: C.E.O. JRI Interiors in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Amy Sapenoff
Sophomore from Benedictine College currently pursuing an Undergraduate Degree in Political Science with Sociology and Religious Studies minors. She is a Presidential Ambassador and currently on the President's Honor Roll with a 3.9 GPA. She plans on pursuing higher education after graduation.
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.
Ms. 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.
Mr. Eric Schwinge
Managing Partner, Patentpool Group.
Ms. Jennifer Sertl
President of Customer Service Alliance, Inc. Executive coach for TEC, an organization dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and enhancing the lives of CE0's. On-line instructor of Barnes & Noble University for classes such as Achieving Customer Service Excellence, Business Etiquette, and Issues In Managing People. Actively involved in the local community supporting Wilson Commencement Park, a facility that transitions individuals from welfare to self-sustained income. Strategic partner for Eve, the Voice of Western New York Women. Board level leadership positions for American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) and Rochester Women's Network (RWN).
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, PhD
Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva; member, European Molecular Biology Organization. Graduated from Harvard College in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1977), David Shore received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Stanford University (1982) for work on DNA structure with Robert Baldwin. He worked as a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow with Kim Nasmyth at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge, UK) before moving to Columbia University where he established an independent laboratory in 1987, with support from the National Institutes of Health and the American Cancer Society. He was Assistant Professor and later Professor of Microbiology at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons before moving to Geneva in 1996. Dr. Shore's research activities are in the areas of basic molecular genetics and biochemistry, with specific interests in regulation of gene activity, chromosome structure and DNA replication. His work is currently supported by the Swiss National Fund, the Swiss Cancer League, the NCCR Program "Frontiers in Genetics" (Swiss National Fund), the Canton of Geneva, the Human Frontiers Science Program Organisation, and the European Science Foundation. Dr. Shore was Visiting Professor in the Department of Genetics, University of Milan (1995) and in the Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School (2004).
Mr. Joseph Smallhoover
Managing Partner of Dechert Price & Rhoads, Paris and Frankfurt. Former Partner, Law Offices of S.G. Archibald. Editor of Revue de Droit des Affaires Internationales/International Business Law Journal. International Counsel, Democrats Abroad. Member, Democratic National Committee.
Ms. Anda Stelian
Architect, mostly in the commercial field (offices, retail stores, space planning) but also in the historic preservation of buildings. Worked in Belgium, Paris and New York. Accomplished potter.
Professor Richard Taylor
Professor of Physics, Psychology and Art at the University of Oregon (USA). Since gaining his Ph.D. in 1988 (Nottingham, UK), he has published over 180 research papers and has worked in the USA, UK, Canada, Japan and Australia. In addition, he trained as a painter at the Manchester School of Art (U.K.), and has a Masters Degree in Art Theory (University of New South Wales, Sydney). Professor Taylor has studied fractals and chaos in a diverse range of research fields, including nano-electronics, optics, crime statistics, human brain tissue, perception psychology, architecture and art.
Mrs. Michele Taylor
Award-winning freelance writer living in Eugene, Oregon (USA). She holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon as well as a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of London (UK). Currently, she is working on a non-fiction book on Modern Art.
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.
Mr. William D. Torchiana
Attorney; Managing Partner, Paris office of Sullivan & Cromwell
Mrs. Françoise Joly Torchiana
Research Director, Ethical Globalization Initiative (EGI).
Dr. David Turner
Deputy pro-Chancellor, Treasurer and Vice Chairman of Council at City University, London; Director of Falcon Property Trust, Chairman of WSP Group plc, Non-Executive Director of, Royal Mail Property Holdings, and GCDA, a UK government agency. Formerly: Chief Executive of Barclays Property Holdings Ltd and a Divisional Director of Barclays Bank plc.
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.
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.
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
Cross Cultural Sales Consultant; KPM Approach to Children; Classical Feng Shui consultation.
Mr. Grigory Yavlinsky
Chairman of the Board, Center for Economic and Political Research (EPIcenter); Member of the Board of the International Crisis Group; Winner of the Prize for Freedom (2004) of the Liberal International. Russian presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000. Founder and Head, Russian Democratic Party "Yabloko". Author of publications on economic issues, including: "500 - days plan "(1990); "The Grand Bargain" (1991); "Laissez-Faire versus Policy Led Transformation: Lessons of Economic Reforms in Russia "(1994); "The Russian Economy: the Heritage and the Possibilities" (1995); "Incentive and Institutions: The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia." (2000); "Demodernisation" (2002); "Periphery Capitalism" (2003).
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.
Mr. Eric-Axel Zimmer
Project manager in the Paris office of SECOR, the largest independent Canadian strategy consulting company. Began his career in the aerospace and marketing sectors at Arianespace and Eutelsat, respectively. After five years, he became an entrepreneur and consultant in the Internet sector, namely, as a partner working in business development at the Spoutnik multimedia communication agency, Paris. In 2003, he produced and launched an Internet game after having acquired a French licence for the Lord of the Rings.
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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