Selected Biographies of
Members of the Board of Directors of
The United States Association of the Club of Rome

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Stanley Dale Cohen
Cecil Ivan Hudson, Jr., Ph.D.
Ambassador John W. McDonald
Dana Raphael, Ph.D.
Francesco Stipo, Ph.D.
Anitra Thorhaug Ph.D.

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Stanley Dale Cohen, Esq.

41 PARK AVENUE 17-C
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10016
(212) 686-8200 Fax 212-0686-4900  S@StanCohen.com

Dynamic Counselor at Law and creative advisor with expertise as a negotiator, strategist and closer.

Portfolio of experience includes: In-House Counsel to major real estate firm, CEO of Internet businesses and retail chain, managing partner of law firm, President of a UN-NGO and director of three other not for profits. Highly effective at reviewing, negotiating and closing real estate sales, purchases, leases, mortgages, licenses, and restructuring any and all agreements and effectively solving disputes and problems. Mr. Cohen takes the initiative to give substantive and legal advice, strategize and implement business tactics to obtain goals, and mediate, negotiate and problem-solve to resolve disputes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

STANLEY DALE COHEN, Attorney at Law, New York, NY 2001- Present

Managing Partner (Concurrent Experience)
Provide legal expertise in the areas of real estate, contracts, turnarounds, and domestic relations.
Advise decision makers and provide business counseling and planning
Represented retail chains, manufacturers, importers, and service businesses in diverse fields, including international, national and local businesses.
Started in 1979, the practice grew until retained as in-house counsel to major real estate conglomerate.

CORONET PROPERTIES, New York, NY 1991-1996
In-House Counsel

Counsel to General Partner of multiple entities, which owned greater than $100,000,000.00 in investment properties.
Counseled Principal in methods to reduce management costs and created strategic plans to avoid on-going losses and/or improve positions.
Supervised and/or conducted litigations; negotiated on behalf of organization with International banks, Landlords and law firms to restructure deals.
Created and drafted complex joint venture agreements; advised management on a wide variety of contractual and business matters on new real estate deals.
Part of inner management team that reviewed and decided upon sites and terms of new deals, negotiated terms on behalf of organization.
Drafted, reviewed, negotiated and oversaw execution of numerous commercial leases.
GENERALTV.COM, New York, NY 1999-2001
(Internet TV firm focusing on production of digital video for the Internet.)
CEO

Founding member of company; named CEO by public corporate partner.
Led and supervised all aspects of business and content deals.
Established, developed and maintained relationships with affiliates
Envisioned image and created model for website. Supervised graphic designers and technical programmers to accomplish look and effectiveness of site.
Oversaw growth of digital productions and Internet distribution of corporate communications.
Negotiated, drafted and reviewed all contracts with corporate partner and clients.

C. OTTLEY STRATEGIES, LTD. New York, NY 1996-1999
In-House Counsel

Represented client with national clientele in developing and managing contracts.
Counseled client on corporate matters including employee handbook, leases, business plans and assisted on creation of training program for clients.
Counseled CEO on all facets of operations, including diagnosing, strategizing and resolving complex organizational issues.
Worked with CEO to develop effective approaches to successfully achieve objectives in business relationships.
Handled all employee relations including reviews, terminations, and employee files

COHEN & JAEGER, New York, NY 1979-1991
Managing Partner

Created firm, managed growth, responsible for handling all aspects of transactional matters for clients including real estate, corporate, bankruptcy, and personal matters of principals.
Counseled clients, strategized, and oversaw litigation, arbitration, mediation, negotiations and settlements of problems and disputes.

CAMERA CORNER, Oceanside, NY 1981-1997
CEO (Concurrent experience)

Formulated and implemented plan for expanding and maintaining successful chain of one-hour labs in several communities over the course of 17 years.
Directed all aspects of business; selected sites for expansion, supervised marketing, advertising, and public relations campaigns.
Conceived plan to reformulate business for next generation of imaging shop, synergistically mixing graphic arts with photography, digital imaging and copy shop.

NOT FOR PROFIT (Concurrent experience)

EARTH SOCIETY FOUNDATION, New York, NY 2001-Present
President and Director
Formulated and implemented plan to turnaround this United Nations NGO which had recently been embroiled amidst power struggles between disparate sides of former administration.
March 04 gave speech on relationship between hopelessness and terror recruitment
Involved in supporting UN in its efforts for peace, environment, education, and sustainable development.
Speech on Peace at the United Nations on the night the US went to war against Iraq

Turnaround Management Association Board Member since 2002
Editor and publisher of New York Chapter Newsletter
NGO Committee on Human Settlements Board Member since 2002
Drafted Housing Caucus policy statement, on behalf of many
UN organizations, for inclusion in WSSD agenda.
USA Club of Rome Board Member since 2004
Center For Group Studies Board Member since 2004 and
elected to Executive Committee in the summer of 2004
Manhattan Magazine Foundation Charter Board Member since 1985
Selection Committee Member for Manhattan Awards
New York State Judicial Support Office Arbitrator since 1998
Arbitrates disputes between Clients and Attorneys
Little League and Booster Basketball Championship Coach through 1990’s
Senator’s intern for Senator James Abourezk of South Dakota 1974

Publications
- Editor and Publisher of Turnaround Management Association New York (TMANY) newsletter published at least four times per year.
Earth Society Journal regular contributor
Recently contracted to write journal of wedding and honeymoon for a Bridal Magazine to be published this summer
Attorney for several publications (i.e. Manhattan, New World Journal)
Senator’s report on the rising cost of energy and its potential effects on the economy written in 1974
D.C. (fictionalized account of Washington DC experience)

Educational Background
Juris Doctor, 1976 Western New England College School of Law,
Springfield, Massachussetts
Bachelor of Arts, 1973, History Major
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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Cecil Ivan Hudson, Jr., Ph.D.

Now retired, Dr. Hudson is a Physicist who is an internationally recognized expert in technology and in futures planning. In 1998, he founded Business Information Solutions, LLC to provide business intelligence services to companies using SAP’s R/3 enterprise resource planning software. BIS grew to $20 million in sales, and was sold in June 2005 to Sapient Corporation.
Prior to founding BIS, he conducted management consulting on the information technology aspects of restructuring in the electric utility industry, defined elements of a futures research project for the Center for Global Security Research at LLNL, reviewed the Sandia 2020 Futures Project, and assisted in the development of a technology “toolbox” for use by the US Strategic Command Science Advisory Group in a future-based wargame.
His Management positions include Corporate Vice President, SAIC, Group Vice President, JAYCOR, (responsible for Divisions dealing with Health and Environment, Advanced Concepts, Weapon Systems, and Military and Management Analysis), Vice President, the Titan Corporation and Director of Technology Programs for Expersoft, a startup software company. His career began at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
He has managed numerous projects related to international security policy, high technology weapon systems, operations research and systems analysis. He has published chapters in four books on advanced technology weapon systems and international security policy, and has written papers ranging from the effects of radioactivity on sewage digestion to future energy needs and resources for the US to the relationship between nuclear and conventional weapons. He has directed both theoretical and hardware programs, including conducting 23 full scale nuclear tests.
Dr. Hudson’s computer experience ranges from the dawn of the computer era, to the largest mainframes, to the development of a PC-based hypermedia intelligent tutoring system, (including a course in triage for USAF Battlefield Nurses), and the development of an Assumption Based Truth Maintenance System for Automatic Target Recognition Algorithm Development, for the Army’s Night Vision Lab.
From the mid 60s to mid 70s, Dr. Hudson was Chairman of the Futures Planning Council of the Episcopal Diocese of California, and from the mid 70s to early 90s was Chairman of the Technology Working Group for the California Seminar on International Security and Foreign Policy. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and is a past President of the US Association for the Club of Rome. He has also been a serious student of Tibetan Buddhism for 27 years.
Dr. Hudson holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Virginia (1962), and a BS in Physics (With Highest Honor) from Georgia Tech (1958).

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Ambassador John W. McDonald

Ambassador John W. 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 diplomatic career in Western Europe and the Middle East and worked for sixteen years on United Nations economic and social affairs.
From 1974-78, he was Deputy Director General of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland.
He was appointed Ambassador twice by President Carter and twice by President Reagan to represent the United States at various UN World conferences.
McDonald retired from the US Foreign Service in 1987, after 40 years as a US diplomat.
Ambassador McDonald is co-founder, Chairman and CEO of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, an international non-governmental organization, established in 1992 and located in Arlington, Virginia.
IMTD takes a systems approach to peace and focuses on international ethnic conflicts.
IMTD has worked extensively in helping reduce conflict in the following countries: Cyprus, Israel/Palestine, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Sudan, Rwanda, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Libya, India, Pakistan, Kashmir, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Georgia and Cuba.
IMTD has also worked with the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government-in-Exile since 1990.
McDonald held various State Department assignments in Berlin, Frankfurt, Bonn, Paris, Washington D.C., Ankara, Tehran, Karachi, Cairo and Geneva. He also led numerous US delegations to United Nations World Conferences.
McDonald holds both a B.A. and a J.D. degree from the University of Illinois, and graduated from the National War College in 1967.
After his retirement from the US Foreign Service, Ambassador McDonald has been a professor of law at The George Washington University, a professor of conflict resolution at George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and a professor of political science at Grinnell College as well as a professor of conflict resolution and peacebuilding at the National Defense University.
McDonald is the recipient of four honorary degrees and serves on numerous national and international Boards.
He is the author or editor of ten books. He is the co-author of Multi-Track Diplomacy: A Systems Approach to Peace (Kumarian Press) 3rd ed.
He recently co-edited Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding: The Role of NGOs in Historical Reconciliation and Territorial Issues by the Northeast Asian History Foundation.
His most recent book, published in July 2008, is The Shifting Grounds of Conflict and Peace Building: Stories and Lesson (Lexington Press, 2008).

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Dana Raphael, Ph.D.

Dr. Dana Raphael is a medical anthropologist, writer and lecturer. Her interest in breastfeeding inspired her to found The Human Lactation Center in 1975 with Margaret Mead, an institute devoted to researching patterns of lactation worldwide. The Center is now a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that has consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. She is also the Executive Director of the Eleventh Commandment Foundation, a NGO that researches the long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse on women’s experience of pregnancy, labor, childbirth and lactation.
She is credited with initiating the role of the modern doula, a supportive person who pairs up with women during their labor and delivery and helps the new mother to assure her success with breastfeeding.
Dr. Raphael has served as an adjunct professor at Yale University, School of Medicine, and as an invited lecturer in the United States, China, India and Japan. She has received two Fulbright awards, chaired or participated in more than fifty conferences and symposiums, written or edited five books and over 50 articles.

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Dr. Francesco Stipo

Francesco Stipo is a lawyer residing in Miami, USA.
He holds a Ph.D. in International Law and a Master Degree in Comparative Law from the University of Miami.
He has been practicing international law since 1999 and worked as a foreign law advisor and of counsel for European and American law firms.
He is the author of “World Federalist Manifesto. Guide to Political Globalization” (www.worldfederalistmanifesto.com)
and “United Nations Reorganization. The Unification of the U.N. System”.
He also is the author of "The Balanced Contribution Theory".
In March 2008 he gave a speech at the United Nations on U.N. Reform.
Dr. Stipo is an active member of the National Press Club in Washington D.C. He currently serves in the Board of Directors of the India-US Chamber of Commerce of Florida.
In the USA Club of Rome is a member of the Legal Committee and participated in the Club's Report with an article on "The Development of Free Trade Agreements in the American Continent".
As Director of the USA Club of Rome he organized the Conference on "The Future of the American Hemisphere" that took place on January 31st-February 1st 2009 in Miami.

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Anitra Thorhaug Ph.D

Anitra Thorhaug Ph. D. in Biological Oceanography and Chemical Oceanography.
Professor Thorhaug is presently a Research worker at Yale University.  Dr. Thorhaug has recently been the candidate for Under Secretary General of the United Nations for Environment.
She has been consultative to the following United Nations Agencies: FAO, UNEP, UNDP, World Bank, and UNESCO.
She has worked on all five continents and done projects in over 100 nations.
The academic work of Professor Thorhaug includes being faculty at a series of leading US Universities such as UC Berkeley, Yale, Florida International University, University of Miami Medical School and Marine Sciences, Wood's Hole, and foreign institutions such as Weizmann Institute & Philippine's Women's University.
Her major contributions to research have been the first to do large scale seagrass restoration and restoration in the tropical Pacific and tropical Atlantic, Setting standards for outflow in tropical and subtropical thermal effluents and for oil pollution, physiology of marine plants, especially seagrasses and giant algal cells (biophysical work with A. Katchalsky).
She has authored over 200 scientific papers and abstracts, and 10 books and many grants and contracts.
She has been consultative to government, which includes local to international level and industry on solutions to environmental in thermal, petroleum, siltation from bridges, roads and dams, salinity changes, and other infrastructure and mining. Her work has been recognized on several continents and by several UN programs.
She is the recipient of a gold medal from UNEP and member of the prestigious UNEP Global 500. She has contributed to environmental action by organizing decision-making conferences on energy and the environment, bay restoration, and tropical bay planning, and thermal pollution.
Her not-for-profit activities include The UN Earth Society (board member), The Botanical Society of America (board member, editorial member of American Journal of Botany and chair of Physiological Section 9 years), USA Club of Rome (board for 15 years, chair for 5 years, chair elect), and Greater Caribbean Energy and Environment Foundation. Her present interests are monitoring sea grass health, global restoration global coastal pollution and climate change.

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