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FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><IMG border=0 alt=Biographies vspace=3 src="../images/t_8.gif" width=109 height=15> </FONT></P> <P align=left><STRONG>Selected Biographies of <BR>Members of the Board of Directors of <BR>The United States Association of the Club of Rome </STRONG></P> <P align=left>____________________________________________</P> <P align=left><STRONG><A href="#Cohen">Noel Brown, Ph.D.</A></STRONG><BR><STRONG><A href="#Hudson">Cecil Ivan Hudson, Jr., Ph.D.</A><BR><A href="#McDonald">James Gray M.D.</A><BR><A href="#Raphael">Dana Raphael, Ph.D.</A><BR><A href="#Raphael">Francesco Stipo, Ph.D.</A><BR><A href="#Thorhaug">Anitra Thorhaug Ph.D.</A></STRONG></P> <P align=left>____________________________________________</P> <P align=left><STRONG><A name=Cohen></A>Dr. Noel Brown</STRONG><BR><BR>Dr. Noel Brown is the former Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, North American Office. After receiving a Ph.D from Yale University, he became an organizer of the Stockholm Conference for the Environment in 1972. Dr. Brown is the President of the Friends of the United Nations, a fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, a founding member of the Aspen Global Change Institute and Chairman of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism. He also serves in the Board of Directors of the Climate Institute. Dr. Brown teaches environmental policy at the Elizabeth Mann Borghese Dalhousie Marine Institute in Canada. </P> <P align=left>____________________________________________</P> <P align=left><STRONG><A name=Hudson></A>Cecil Ivan Hudson, Jr., Ph.D.<BR></STRONG><BR>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.<BR>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.<BR>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.<BR>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.<BR>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.<BR>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.<BR>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).</P> <P align=left>____________________________________________</P> <P><STRONG><A name=McDonald></A>James Gray, M.D.</STRONG></P> <P>Dr. James Gray, MD is a practicing medical doctor and was affiliated as chief physician with the University of Houston until 2010. He is a graduate of Baylor College of Medicine. He is building an e-business and several other businesses, including an historical cultural theater and his restored ranch in Burton, TX. He has been on the USACOR Board for 3 years as newsletter editor and also serves on the nominating committee. He was a major author and committee chair of the health section of The Future of the Western Hemisphere. <BR></P> <P>____________________________________________</P> <P><STRONG><A name=Raphael></A>Dana Raphael, Ph.D.</STRONG></P> <P>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. <BR>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.<BR>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.</P> <P align=left>____________________________________________</P> <P align=left><BR><STRONG><A name=Thorhaug></A>Dr. Francesco Stipo</STRONG></P> <P align=left>Francesco Stipo is a lawyer,&nbsp;author and&nbsp;expert in international affairs.&nbsp;Born in Italy in 1973, he is a naturalized United States citizen.<BR>He holds a Ph.D. in International Law and a Master Degree in Comparative Law from the University of Miami.<BR>He has been practicing international law since 1999 and worked as a foreign law advisor and of counsel for European and American law firms.<BR>He is the author of  World Federalist Manifesto. Guide to Political Globalization <A href="http://www.worldfederalistmanifesto.com">(www.worldfederalistmanifesto.com)</A> <BR>and  United Nations Reorganization. The Unification of the U.N. System .<BR>He also is the author of "The Balanced Contribution Theory".<BR>In March 2008 he gave a speech at the United Nations on U.N. Reform.<BR>Dr. Stipo is a member of the International Club of Rome, an active member of the National Press Club and the Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington D.C. He currently serves in the Board of Directors of the India-US Chamber of Commerce of Florida.<BR>He contributed to the 2011 USA Club of Rome Report titled "The Future of the Western Hemisphere" with an article on "The Development of Free Trade Agreements in the American Continent" and organized the conference that took place in Miami on January 31st-February 1st 2009. He is the Chairman of the Legal and Political Committee of USACOR.<BR>Dr. Stipo has been Director of the United States Association since July 2008, Vice President between March 2010 and March 2011 and was elected President in March 2011. ____________________________________________</P> <P align=left><BR><STRONG><A name=Thorhaug></A>Anitra Thorhaug Ph.D</STRONG></P> <P align=left>Anitra Thorhaug Ph. D. in Biological Oceanography and Chemical Oceanography.<BR>Professor Thorhaug is presently a Research worker at Yale University.&nbsp; Dr. Thorhaug has recently been the candidate for Under Secretary General of the United Nations for Environment. <BR>She has been consultative to the following United Nations Agencies: FAO, UNEP, UNDP, World Bank, and UNESCO. <BR>She has worked on all five continents and done projects in over 100 nations.<BR>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 &amp; Philippine's Women's University. <BR>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). <BR>She has authored over 200 scientific papers and abstracts, and 10 books and many grants and contracts. <BR>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.<BR>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. <BR>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.</P> <P align=left>____________________________________________</P><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><BR></FONT><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" size=-1 face=verdana,helvetica,sans-serif><BR>&nbsp;</FONT></TD> <TD vAlign=bottom width=43 noWrap align=right><A onmouseover="MarkPlay('p_1','p_1x');" onmouseout="MarkPlay('p_1','p_1');" href="#start"><IMG border=0 name=p_1 hspace=15 alt="top of the page" src="../images/pfeil.gif" width=13 height=11></A></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- Ende Tabelle haupt --></TD></TR> <TR> <TD vAlign=bottom><!-- Footer --> <TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=606 align=center> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width=15 noWrap></TD> <TD noWrap><BR><FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12px; FONT-SIZE: 10px" color=gray size=-2 face=arial,geneva,helvetica,sans-serif><BR>Contact: Francesco Stipo &nbsp;&nbsp;E-Mail: <A href="mailto:fstipo@hotmail.com">fstipo@hotmail.com</A> </FONT><BR>&nbsp;</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV><MAP name=head><AREA title="The Club of Rome" href="http://www.clubofrome.org" shape=circle alt="The Club of Rome" target=_blank coords=566,26,32><AREA title="The Club of Rome" href="http://www.clubofrome.org" shape=rect alt="The Club of Rome" target=_blank coords=21,24,124,36><AREA title="European Support Centre" href="../index.html" shape=rect alt="European Support Centre" coords=27,45,370,62><AREA shape=default></MAP></BODY></HTML>