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.
Anitra Thorhaug Ph.

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Stanley Dale Cohen

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.

Chief Operating Officer
Business Information Solutions, LLC (BIS)
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 is now in its 7th year, with $20 million in sales, no debt, and it has made a profit every year.
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.
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 use on the Sun network at 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 22 years.
Dr. Hudson holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Virginia, and a BS in Physics (With Highest Honor) from Georgia Tech.

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Ambassador John W. McDonald Co-Chair of USACOR

Ambassador John W. McDonald is a lawyer, diplomat, former international civil servant, development expert, and peace-builder, 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. In February 1992, he was named Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, in Fairfax, Virginia. McDonald retired from the Foreign Service in 1987, after 40 years as a diplomat. In 1987-88, he became a Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. He was Senior Advisor to George Mason University's Center for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and taught and lectured at the Foreign Service Institute and the Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs. From December 1988, to January 1992, McDonald was President of the Iowa Peace Institute in Grinnell, Iowa and was a Professor of Political Science at Grinnell College. In 1983, Ambassador McDonald joined the State Department's newly formed Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs as its Coordinator for Multilateral Affairs, and lectured and organized symposia on the art of negotiation, multilateral diplomacy and international organizations. He has written or edited eight books on negotiation and conflict resolution. From 1978-83, he carried out a wide variety of assignments for the State Department in the area of multilateral diplomacy. He was President of the INTELSAT World Conference called to draft a treaty on privileges and immunities; leader of the U.S. Delegation to the UN World Conference on Technical Cooperation Among Developing Countries, in Buenos Aires in 1978; Secretary General of the 27th Colombo Plan Ministerial Meeting; head of the U.S. Delegation which negotiated a UN Treaty Against the Taking of Hostages; U.S. Coordinator for the UN Decade on Drinking Water and Sanitation; head of the U.S. Delegation to UNIDO III in New Delhi in 1980; Chairman of the Federal Interagency Committee for the UN's International Year of Disabled Persons, 1981; U.S. Coordinator and head of the U.S. Delegation for the UN's World Assembly on Aging, in Vienna, in 1982. From 1974-78, he was Deputy Director General of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland, a UN Agency, with responsibility for managing that agency's 3,200 person Secretariat, coming from 102 countries, with programs in 120 member nations, and an annual budget of $135 million. From 1947-1974, Ambassador McDonald held various State Department assignments in Berlin, Frankfurt, Bonn, Paris, Washington D.C., Ankara, Tehran, Karachi, and Cairo.
Ambassador 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. He was appointed Ambassador twice by President Carter and twice by President Reagan to represent the United States at various UN World Conferences.

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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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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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