The Global Academy and its Institutes are guided and inspired by an International Advisory Board. The Academy is in the process of significantly expanding the existing board to create an even wider representation of the breadth of issues and stakeholder constituencies. By including international representatives of the diverse perspectives and stakeholder groups, we want to encourage trust among disparate audiences that the work of the Institute is open and fair, and that its dialogues do not favor the agenda of any particular group.

Ray Anderson is chairman and CEO of Interface Corporation, the world’s largest producer of commercial carpet. Mr. Anderson’s mission is to make Interface a sustainable corporation by battling waste and pioneering the processes of sustainable development. Mr. Anderson was named co-chairman of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in 1997, and received the inaugural Millennium Award from Global Green, presented by Mikhail Gorbachev in September 1996. He also was named the winner of the 2001 George and Cynthia Mitchell International Prize for Sustainable Development.

W. French Anderson, Ph.D., is the director of the Gene Therapy Laboratories at University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine where he also serves as professor of biochemistry and pediatrics. Before joining the USC faculty in 1992, he was chief of the Molecular Hematology Branch at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health where he worked as a gene therapy researcher for 27 years. Dr. Anderson headed the team that carried out the first approved human gene therapy clinical protocol, is recognized as an ongoing innovator in the research area of human gene transfer, and is also known as a leading ethicist in the field of human genetic engineering. Dr. Anderson’s principal area of research is advanced gene therapy delivery systems.

Jensine Andresen, Ph.D., is assistant professor of theology at Boston University. Dr. Andresen’s current research focuses on developing a psychoanalytic interpretation of Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana doctrine and practice. She also maintains an interest in bioethics, particularly xenotransplantation, gene therapy, human cloning, stem cell research, and intellectual property rights. She also pursues research on cognitive science and religious experience.

Ken-ichi Arai, M.D., is chairman of the Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo.  Dr. Arai received his M.D. from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, his Ph.D. in Biochemistry also from the University of Tokyo, and has held positions in both disciplines at Stanford University and the University of Tokyo.

Warren A. Bennis, Ph.D. is the distinguished professor of business administration at the University of South California and the founding chairman of USC’s Leadership Institute. His books include Organizing Genius, Why Leaders Can’t Lead and On Becoming a Leader, and two of his books have earned the McKinsey Award for the Best Book of Management. Dr. Bennis has served in an advisory capacity to the past four US presidents and consulted to many corporations and agencies and to the United Nations.

Mitchell J. Blutt, M.D., is the executive partner of Chase Capital Partners and an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Blutt is responsible for venture capital strategy and directs all health care industry investing in Chase Capital Partners, and he participates in the overall management of the business. Dr. Blutt teaches a course at Weill Medical College of Cornell University on new business development in the health care industry. From 1987 – 1999, Dr. Blutt provided clinical care in Cornell Internal Medicine Associates. Prior to joining Chase Capital Partners and Cornell, Dr. Blutt was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School.

Shen-Yen Ch’an is a renowned teacher of Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism. At the age of 13, he left his home near Shanghai to become a monk. During the period of Communist unrest, he went to southern Taiwan and spent six years in solitary retreat. Later, he continued his formal study, earning a doctorate in Buddhist Literature from Rissho University in Tokyo. He now divides his time between New York, where is the resident teacher at the Ch’an Meditation Center he founded, and Taipei, where he is the abbot of two monasteries.

Audrey Chapman, Ph.D., is the director of the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and she also directs the AAAS Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion. She is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ. Dr. Chapman’s research interests include issues related to economic, social and cultural rights, truth and reconciliation, and religious ethics pertaining to genetics. One of her current research projects explores the ethical and policy implications of human germ line interventions and human stem cell research.

Rodrigo Costa da Rocha Loures is CEO of Nutrimental, a $60 million food company in Brazil. Loures has worked to make his company a "breakthrough organization" and has been transforming his workplace through the practice of "Appreciative Inquiry." Nutrimental exports non-GMO soybeans to Europe and supports organic farming.

Zhangliang Chen, Ph.D., is vice president of Peking University and director of the National Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering and China’s leading authority on plant genetics He is the vice-chairman of the Chinese Biotechnology Association and Chinese Plant-Genetic-Engineering Association. Dr. Chen holds a doctorate in molecular biology from Washington University in St. Louis, and in 1991 received the Javed Husain Prize for Young Scientists, an international prized awarded by UNESCO. In 1994, Time elected Dr. Chen to the Global 100 Time Roster of Young Leaders for the New Millennium.

Hans-Peter Duerr, Ph.D., is a world-renowned nuclear physicist and philosopher, and the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich and one-time protégé of Werner Heisenberg. He was the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award in 1987, the Alternative Nobel Prize, was a Council member of Pugwash, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995, and holds advisory positions to many international organizations. Dr. Duerr received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mustafa El Tayeb is director of UNESCO’s Division of Science analysis and Policies, Natural Science Sector.

Gerard Fairtlough is a biochemist who worked in the Royal Dutch/Shell group for 25 years, the last five as CEO of Shell Chemicals U.K. He then founded the biotechnology company Celltech and was its CEO until 1990. Since then he has been involved in the start-up of several high-technology businesses in the U.K. and has been an advisor to various government and academic institutions. He has been a council member of the University of East Anglia, located in Norwich, England, and has several other academic advisory posts. Mr. Fairtlough has written extensively on the theory and practice of organizations and of innovation.

Kevin T. Fitzgerald, S.J., Ph.D., is a Jesuit Priest and an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. He received a Ph.D. in molecular genetics and a Ph.D. in Bioethics from Georgetown University. His current research focuses on the investigation of abnormal gene regulation in cancer and research on ethical issues in human genetics.

Shinji Fukukawa is chairman and CEO of the Dentsu Institute for Human Studies, Japan. Before joining Dentsu in November 1994, he was executive vice president and vice chairman of Kobe Steel Ltd. and senior adviser of Nomura Research Institute. He serves concurrently as senior adviser to the Japan Industrial Policy Research Institute and to the Ministry of International Trade & Industry. Mr. Fukukawa is a member of the board of the U.S.-Japan Foundation and the World Resources Institute.

Jane Goodall, Ph.D., primatologist and doctor of ethology, Cambridge University, arrived at Gombe, Tanzania in 1960 and lived with the chimpanzees there for a decade. This was the longest continuous field study of animals in their natural habitat and revolutionized the study of primates. Over the years her studies have shown the many striking similarities between humans and chimpanzees. To provide ongoing support for chimpanzee research, she founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation in 1977. In 1991, Dr. Goodall founded the Roots & Shoots youth program, the JGI environmental education and humanitarian program for youth, which now has more than 1,000 groups in 50 countries. Her honors include the Kyoto Prize in Bai Science, and the Animal Welfare Institute’s Albert Schweitzer Award.

Michael Green, is an illustrator, artist, and author who works in the tradition of the nameless shamanic artisan and engages in making ceremonial environments and ritual artifacts. As an author and illustrator, his works include the I Ching Journals, Zen and the Art of the Macintosh, and The Illuminated Rumi.

Irving Greenberg, Ph.D., is an orthodox rabbi and received his doctorate from Harvard University. Rabbi Greenberg is the president of Jewish Life Network, and formerly was founding president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership. Earlier in his career he served as rabbi of the Riverdale Jewish Center, as associate professor of history at Yeshiva University, and as founder, chairman and professor in the Department of Jewish Studies of City College of the City University of New York.  President Clinton appointed Rabbi Greenberg to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Guanghu He, Ph.D., received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1989. He is currently a research fellow on world religion and his books and publications include: A Concept of God, The Twentieth Century View on Religion, Global Ethics, Dialogue between Confucianism and Christianity, and Religion and the World.

Martinez Hewlett, Ph.D., O.P.L., is a professor of molecular biology at the University of Arizona. Dr. Hewlett is particularly interested in the philosophical aspects of science and is active in the St. Albert the Great Forum on Theology and the Sciences. He is a lay member of the Dominicans, and participates in Science and the Spiritual Quest, a project of the John Templeton Foundation, at the Center for Theology and Natural Science, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA.

William Hurlbut, M.D. is a physician and consulting professor in the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University. After receiving his undergraduate and medical training at Stanford, Dr. Hurlbut completed his post doctoral studies in theology and medical ethics, first studying under Robert Hamerton-Kelly. Dr. Hurlbut’s main areas of interest involve the ethical issues associated with advancing technology and neuroscience and the integration of the philosophy of biology with Christian theology. In January 2002, Dr. Hurlbut was appointed to the President's Council on Bioethics. Dr. Hurlbut has co-taught integrative courses at Stanford with Luca Cavelli-Sforza, director of the Human Genome Diversity Project, and Nobel Prize winner Baruch Blumberg. Dr. Hurlbut also works with the Center for Security and International Cooperation on a project formulating policy on Chemical and Biological Warfare and with NASA on projects in Astrobiology.

Joseph Jacobs, M.D., M.B.A. received his medical degree from Yale University and obtained his MBA at the Wharton School of Business. Dr. Jacobs served as director of the Office of Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health and he has authored and/or contributed to eight books including Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, Medical Futility and the Evaluation of Life Sustaining Interventions and Community-Oriented Primary Care: From Principles to Practice.

Kim Jobst, M.D., is a former consultant at Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital and is visiting professor of complementary medicine at Oxford Brookes University. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine and a member of the Prince of Wales's working group on integrated medicine. His research interests include science and healing, particularly in relation to dementia and the interface of alternative and complementary medicines with orthodox science and medicine. He is training as a Jungian analytical psychologist. His main interest is the healing of the whole person and the symbolic nature of the therapeutic encounter.

Bruce Katz, founder of Rockport Shoes, co-owner of various Internet companies and internationally engaged in corporate responsibility networks.

James F. Keenan, S.J., is associate professor of Christian ethics at the Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, MA, and chair of the AIDS and Ethics Committee of the Society of Christian Ethics. Dr. Keenan has published a popular book entitled Virtues for Ordinary Christians. He is also well known in the scholarly and medical establishments for his books on Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention, Commandments of Compassion, Practice what you Preach: Virtues, Ethics, and Power in the Lives of Pastoral Ministers and Congregations and other texts.

Dr. Ursula Keller, Ph.D., is program director of Literaturhaus, Hamburg, Germany. Born in Poland, Dr. Keller studied German philosophy at Goettingen, Tübingen, and Aix-en-Provence Universities. She is a journalist and drama critic.

Robert Lanza, M.D., is vice president of medical & scientific development at Advanced Cell Technology, a leader in mammal cloning. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and was nominated for the MacArthur Foundation “genius” award. Dr. Lanza collaborated on research with Richard Hynes, Gerald Edelman and Jonas Salk.  He also worked closely (and coauthored a series of papers) with the late B.F. Skinner and heart transplant pioneer Christian Barnard.

Walter Link, chairman Global Academy, international business and social entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of corporate social and environmental responsibility.  He is co-chair of the Board of Advisors.

Ulrich Loening, Ph.D., is a molecular biologist at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Loening is the former director and ‘founding chair’ of the Centre of Human Ecology, and currently teaches in its Masters of Science program.. He is co-founder of Lothian and Edinburgh Environmental Partnership and also founded a small sustainable forest timber company, Lothian Trees and Timber. He continues his interests in the biochemistry of organic farming and the place or otherwise of genetically modified crops.

David Lorimer, M.A., P.G.C.E., was educated at Eton and the Universities of St. Andrews and Cambridge and he taught modern languages and philosophy at Fettes College and Winchester College before becoming director of the Scientific and Medical Network. Retiring from this post, he continues with the Network as a consultant and as editor of Network.  He is the vice-president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (U.K.) and chair of Wrekin Trust, a charity devoted to adult spiritual education, and of the All Hallows House Foundation for research in complementary medicine. He is the current president of the Swedenborg Society.

Amory Lovins is the chief executive officer – research and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a 15-year-old independent, nonprofit resource policy center established to advise firms and governments worldwide on advanced resource productivity. A physicist educated at Harvard and Oxford, he is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Nissan, Mitchell, and Onassis Prizes. He has briefed nine heads of state, published 26 books, and consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide. The Wall Street Journal named him among 28 people in the world most likely to change the course of business in the 1990s. His work focuses on transforming the car, electricity, and real estate toward advanced resource productivity.

Hunter Lovins is the Director of the Natural Capitalism Academy of The Global Academy Trained as a lawyer, she co-founded the California Conservation Project (Tree People), and subsequently Rocky Mountain Institute, which she led for 20 years. Hunter has lectured extensively in over 15 countries, including at the World Economic Forum at Davos, The International Symposium on Sustainable Development in Shanghai, and the Global Economic Forum in Washington D.C. Her areas of expertise include sustainable development, energy and resource policy, economic development, climate change, land management, and fire rescue and emergency medicine. She has co-authored nine books and numerous papers, including the 1999 book, Natural Capitalism. She has held visiting chairs at Dartmouth College and the University of Colorado, and received several honorary doctorates. Lovins has consulted for scores of industries and governments worldwide. She shared a 1982 Mitchell Prize, a 1983 Right Livelihood Award (often called the "alternative Nobel Prize"), the 1993 Nissan Prize, and the 1999 Lindbergh Award. In 2000 She was named Time Magazine Hero of the Planet. In 2001 she received the Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Research and the Leadership in Business Award. She was also named one of four people from North America to serve as a delegate to the United Nations Prep conference for Europe and North America for the Earth Summit conference.

Inigo Manglano-Ovalle is a world-renowned artist who works extensively on imaging genetics and related issues and was awarded the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship.

John Naisbitt is chairman of the International Board of Advisors for the Global Academy.  He is the author of such best-sellers as Megatrends and High Tech High Touch and eight other books, is a much sought-after speaker and advisor to many of the world’s leading corporations and heads of state. Mr. Naisbitt has been an executive with IBM and Eastman Kodak, as well as a successful entrepreneur. He holds 12 honorary doctorates in the humanities and sciences, and has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University. He is currently Distinguished International Fellow, Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur.

John O’Donohue is a poet, priest, philosopher and scholar from Connamara, Ireland. He was awarded a Ph.D. in philosophical theology from the German University of Tubingen in 1990 and is author of a book on Hegel’s philosophy, Person als Vermittlung published in Germany in 1993. His other writings reveal an original thinker rooted in an unorthodox blend of Irish heritage, German philosophy, and an intimate relationship with the landscape of his home.

Ted Peters Ph.D., is professor of systematic theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and program director for the Science & Religion Course Program at the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences. He served as principal investigator for a research project funded by the National Institutes for Health on Theological and Ethical Questions Raised by the Human Genome Initiative. Professor Peters serves as a member of the Ethics Advisory Board for the Geron Corporation. He is the author of numerous books.

Tom Peters is the author of In Search of Excellence, a book said to have changed the way business does business, as well as many other books on business and training. Mr. Peters is founding chairman of a business consulting firm, the Tom Peters Group. He graduated from Cornell and received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford. He was a senior White House drug abuse advisor in 1973-74, and worked at McKinsey & Co. from 1974-1981, becoming a partner in 1977. Mr. Peters is a fellow of the International Academy of Management, the World Productivity Association, the International Customer Service Association, and the Society of Quality and Participation.

Nancy Prager-Kamel is the head of Investment Banking at US Securities and is experienced in financial services, global business development and strategic and structural blueprinting. She also serves on the steering committee for Tri State Ventures, a New York based Angel Investment Corporation. Mrs. Kamel concurrently is President of Ark Development Group, a business development-financial advisory corporation, which she founded in 1996. Her honors include listings in “Who’s Who of Women in the World”, ”Who’s Who of American Women”, “Distinguished Men and Women of the World”, ”Who’s Who in the East”, and others.

Ren-Zong Qiu Ph.D., is chairman of the ELSI Committee, Human Genome Project in China. At the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Dr. Qui is a senior  research fellow, a professor of the Department of Philosophy, the director of the Bioethics Program, and honorary director of the Center for Applied Ethics. He is vice president of the Chinese Society for Philosophy of Nature, Science and Technology and vice president of the Asian Bioethics Association.

Abdulaziz Sachedina, Ph.D., is professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. Professor Sachedina specializes in political Islam, religious conflict resolution through analysis of Islamic legal traiditon, the roots of religious and political pluralism, and human rights in the Middle East, Pakistan, and East Africa. He is a core member of the Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism Project in the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Preventive Diplomacy Program and a key contributor to the program's efforts to link religion to universal human needs and values in the service of peace building.

Jeff Schloss, Ph.D., is professor of biology at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, and director of Biological Programs for the Christian Environmental Association. Professor Sclhoss’s areas of interest include biological racism, social impacts and theological implications of biological theory, and evolutionary theories of human moral behavior and the conflicts and congruencies between such theories and traditional religious explanations.

Casper Shih, Ph.D., is president of the Global Chinese Competitiveness Foundation in Taiwan. He is the former president of the China Productivity Center, an institution he founded to spearhead the modernization of the Taiwanese economy. Dr. Shih is an honorary fellow of the Asian Productivity Organization.

Donald W. Shriver, Jr. Ph.D., is an ordained minister who holds numerous degrees from prestigious institutions, including Yale University Divinity School and Harvard University. Dr. Shriver was president of Union Theological Seminary in New York for 15 years and has also served as a Presbyterian pastor in North Carolina, and an ethics professor at Emory University.

Professor Alexander McCall Smith is vice chair, Human Genetics Commission, U.K., and professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. Prof. Smith's main areas of interest are in the fields of medical law and criminal law. He is the co-author of a major textbook on law and medicine. He is also the author of several books on criminal law, including a book on the criminal law of Botswana. He is interested in legal and philosophical aspects of responsibility, and recently co-edited a book on the duty to rescue and a book on forensic aspects of sleep disorder. He is also a well-known author of novels, short stories and childrens' books.

Jean Staune is the founder and executive director of the Université Interdisciplinaire de Paris, which has organized some of the most important meetings in science and religion in Europe. He is assistant professor in philosophy of science in the MBA section of HEC (Paris) and has several degrees from French Universities. His current research concerns the meeting point between contemporary discoveries in physics, astronomy, mathematics, biology, neurology, and the probability of the existence of God.

Richard Strohman, Ph.D., is emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as the chair of the Zoology Department, and director of the Health and Medical Sciences Program, both at Berkeley, and has worked at Berkeley on the molecular and cell biology of development for 35 years. In 1992, while on leave, he was research director for the Muscular Dystrophy Association's fight against neuromuscular diseases.  Prof. Strohman is an active proponent of careful re-examination of genetic engineering applications.

Chris Y H. Tan, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, National University of Singapore. Dr. Tan returned to Singapore from a very distinguished career overseas to start IMCB in 1987.  Through its discoveries, the Institute has established an international reputation for its research.

Nandini Tandon, Ph.D., partner Life Sciences Venture Fund, has joined RBC Capital Partners after 14 years experience in successfully bridging scientific technologies with business applications in three high-tech industries, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and semiconductors at companies including: Zyomyx, Hyseq Inc., Chiron, Glaxo and Microelectronics Center North Carolina. Dr. Tandon's experience encompasses corporate partnering, strategic alliances, licensing opportunities and sales & marketing. Dr. Tandon founded Bay Bio Tech Link, a consulting practice focusing on technology partnering. Prior to that Dr. Tandon was chief business officer of Zyomyx and was vice president of corporate development and corporate communications at Hyseq, Inc. A phi beta kappa, Dr. Tandon received her doctorate in biochemistry from Duke University.

Brother Wayne Teasdale, Ph.D. is an adjunct professor at DePaul University’s School for New Learning, and Columbia College where he teaches ethics, comparative religion, and spirituality. He serves on the board of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, and is the chair of its Spiritual Life Task Force. He is also on the faculty of Common Ground, an interfaith and intercultural center for continuing education. With the Dalai Lama and Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, he formulated the Universal Declaration on Nonviolence.

Robert Thurman, Ph.D. holds the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, where he also heads the center for Buddhists Studies. He is co-founder and president of Tibet House New York, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the endangered civilization of Tibet. His interest lies in exploring the Indo-Tibetan philosophical and psychological traditions to discover whatever universal insight into the human mind and heart might contribute to a mature modern psychology. In 1997 he was named one of Time magazine’s most influential Americans.

Gwangwu Wang is director of the East Asia Institute. He is a distinguished professor of history and a former chancellor of Hong Kong University.

Dr. Christine von Weizsaecker, director Ecoropa, writer, molecular and evolutionary biologist, internationally noted proponent of the Precautionary Principle and negotiator of biodiversity and bio-safety protocols.

Michael West M.D. is the CEO of Advanced Cell Technology. Dr. West has focused his academic and business career on the application of developmental biology to age-related degenerative disease. Dr. West founded Geron Corporation, another leading bio-tech company.

Kathyrn B. Williams, Ph.D., is founder and principal of KRW International, a premier executive development consultancy.  Prior to founding KRW, Dr. Williams co-founded and served as senior partner and director of organizational services to Spectrum Center, a multi-faceted psychological services organization. An adjunct faculty member at Greensboro’s Center for Creative Leadership, she also taught at the Department of Medical Social Science at Bowman Gray School of Medicine and Wake Forest University.

Zhi-Wei Xu, M.D., Ph.D. (Edwin C. Hui, M.D., Ph.D.) is professor of Bioethics and professor of Christianity and Chinese Culture at Regent College, University of British Columbia.  His interests include medical ethics in a cross-cultural context and inter-faith dialogue. He has recently finished a book exploring the subject of “personhood and its implication for ethics at the beginning of human life.” 
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