OUR COUNCIL OF ADVISORS
Anna Cadden
Anna Cadden grew up in Brisbane on the Australian East Coast. She has a degree in Film and Television Production and has been working as a cinematographer and teaching at local universities. In 2003 Anna moved to Yuendumu, an Australian Aboriginal community north west of Alice Springs on the edge of the Tanami Desert. There she joined the famed Warlpiri Media Association as a filmer. WMA is highly regarded nationally and internationally as pioneers of community television and one of the first advocates of Indigenous Cultural Intellectual Property rights for media content. She is the director of photography of the recently completed film “Aborginal Rules”.
Eckart Förster
Eckart Förster is a professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and honorary professor of philosophy at the Humboldt University Berlin in Germany. He holds a B. Phil. and D. Phil. from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has previously taught at Oxford, Harvard, Stanford B-School-Isnt-What-It-Used-To-Be , and the University of Munich, and has held visiting positions in North and South America.
Maria Glauser
Maria Glauser is co-director of The Hub in London, a space that inspires and supports people with ideas to realise imaginative initiatives for a radically better world. She's also a member of the Cultivation Team of Pioneers of Change, an international youth network for systemic change. Maria grew up in Paraguay, where she gained experience in indigenous education. She holds a degree in Education. She has published on the learning and knowledge sharing practices of indigenous groups in the Paraguayan Chaco and the impact of modern schooling. At The Hub in London, she supports a community of 150 social innovators with access to space, connections, knowledge and investment. She's very passionate about learning and organisation frameworks that liberate the potential of individuals and communities wanting to re-imagine the social fabric of the world.
Kyoshi Hamano
Kyoshi Hamano is professor of psychology at Bunkei University in Kyoto, Japan. He previously taught at Kyushu University. He is interested in the relationship between individual consciousness and collective change.
J.J. Hendricks
J.J. Hendricks is Professor Emerita at California State University, Stanislaus, where she taught political science, public administration and women’s studies and was Chair of the Departments of Politics and Public Administration, and Ethnic and Women’s Studies. She received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Houston and a Ph.D. from Temple University in political science. She is particularly interested in and published in refereed journals about organization theory, change, and development. She also taught and consulted in program evaluation and intercultural conflict resolution and community change.
Rola Ibrahim JadAllah
Rola I. JadAllah is married with four children and lives in Arrabeh, Palestine. She is a biologist and currently lectures at the Arab-American University of Jenin, Palestine. Previously, she lectured at Al-Quds University, Jerusalem. Rola has been a Ph.D. student at Ein-Shams University, Egypt, since 2006. Her research focuses on the role of human papilloma virus and chlamydia trachomatics infections in cervical abnormalities in women of the West Bank. Rola is consulting us in the process of establishing medical leadership programs in developing countries.
Lovemore Mbigi
Prof. Lovemore Mbigi is teaching at Rhodes University, South Africa, and has previously taught at University of Witwatersrand, De Montford University, and University of Zimbabwe. He is known for bringing traditional African concepts into modern business thinking, an approach which advocates development as a process, that encompasses social concerns with business issues. He is the CEO of African Intellectual Resources, and the author of many books, among them “African Management”, “UBUNTU: The Spirit of African Transformation Management”, “UBUNTU:The African Dream in Management” and the acclaimed “The Spirit of African Leadership”. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and an MBA from Boston University. His consulting group “African Intellectual Resources” works with many organizations in Africa and USA.
Ambassador John W. McDonald
Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy
Ambassador McDonald is a lawyer, diplomat, former international civil servant, development expert and peacebuilder, concerned about world social, economic and ethnic problems. He spent twenty years of his career in Western Europe and the Middle East and worked for sixteen years on United Nations economic and social affairs. He is currently Chairman and co-founder of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, in Washington D.C., which focuses on national and international ethnic conflicts.
Kalyani Mehta
Kalyani Mehta is Professor of Gerontology at the National University of Singapore. She has published six books and more than 40 articles in international peer reviewed journals. Her research interests include among others Elder Care Policies, Widowhood, Gerontological Counselling Models, and Long Term Care. The cross-cultural aspects and experiences of the respondents are often highlighted in her research.
Kalyani Mehta has served as consultant to several international and regional organisations such as U.N. ESCAP (Bangkok) and Asia Development Research Forum, a programme sponsored by the International Development Research Centre (Canada). She has made significant contributions to policy development as a member of the National Advisory Council of Family and Aged.
Prof Mehta is a member of the Singapore Parliament.
Amy Mindell www.aamindell.net
Amy Mindell holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology and is a diplomate of the Process Oriented Psychology Center of Zurich. She wrote” Metaskills: The Spiritual Art of Therapy”, “Riding the Horse Backwards” with her husband Arnold Mindell, “Coma, a Healing Journey”, and “An Alternative to Therapy” as well as many papers in professional journals. Her work with art, music and puppets appears in her newest book “The Dreaming Source of Creativity”. She uses a multi-media approach to explain and teach the concepts of Deep Democracy worldwide.
Arny Mindell www.aamindell.net
Arnold Mindell is known for his development of "process work" (process oriented psychology) and "worldwork". He is the author of 19 books in 20 languages, including "The Year One:Community Creation from Global Problems and Tensions", "The Leader as a Martial Artist", "Quantum Mind", and "The Deep Democrachy of Open Forums". Arny has an M.S. from M.I.T., was a Jungian training analyst, and has a Ph.D. in psychology. He is also known in the area of conflict management for his "Sitting in the Fire" and for his integration of psychology and physics, work on dreams, bodywork, relationships, and for interventions in near death situations.
Theo Nkone
Theo Nkone is CIO of Old Mutual, the largest financial services provider in Southern Africa. He was Cabinet Ministerial Adviser under Nelson Mandela, and CIO of the South African Government. Theo held various roles as CEO, COO, and CIO in engineering, mining, banking and insurance industries. He is involved in several South African NGOs. Theo has degrees from the London Business Schooland John Hopkins University. He is an expert in strategy and business development.
Ana Pasztor
Ana Pasztor is professor for computer science at Florida International University in Miami. She has earned her doctorate in mathematics at Darmstadt University, Germany. Presently, she teaches classes in logic, computer ethics, and cognitive science. She has numerous refereed publications in a wide range of areas such as abstract algebra, logics of programming, artificial intelligence, requirement engineering, design, and more recently, foundational issues in cognitive science, women’s studies, pragmatics, and mathematics education. She has researched and written extensively on the topic of women and science, and women's education in mathematics and science.
Richard R. Wiseman
Richard R. Wiseman is professor emeritus and has been teaching at U.C. Berkeley, University of Washington, and San Francisco State University, where he was professor of foreign languages and literatures as well as department chair of world and comparative literature. He received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley with postdoctoral studies at the Sorbonne Paris, the Thomas Mann Archives at the ETH Zurich, and the C.G.Jung Institute Zurich, Switzerland
