Arthur Dahl (France/USA)
Holds a PhD in Marine Biology from the University of California and is a recognized world expert on coral reef ecology, coastal zone management, biodiversity conservation and island environments. He was Deputy Assistant Executive
Director, Division of Environmental Information and Assessment, UNEP; and Director, Coral Reef Unit, UNEP. a member of the Secretariat of the UN Conference on the Environment and Development. He is president of the International Environmental Forum, member of the EBBF Board, and consults with Integrated Global Observing Strategy Partnership and the World Economic Forum. He lectures around the world on sustainable development and prosperity.

Enrico Giraudi (Italy)
I'm 39. Italian. Living in Milan and working in advertising since 1995. After having worked for 6 years in account management (Publicis-FCB, Saatchi & Saatchi) in 2001 I switched to strategic planning within JWT Italy company.

I strongly believe that business is a means more than a goal. A means to allow people and the community to evolve towards a better quality of life and a deeper consciousness. When business is able to inspire individuals to become better people, the business itself will be more healthy, valuable and successful. Economics should serve people, not the other way round.

Trying to make my job more useful within the community and more meaningful to myself, from 2002 to 2005 I founded and managed an internal consulting unit on corporate social commitment programmes (charities, cause marketing, CSR initiatives). In 2006 I worked within WPP holding in order to plan and start up a CSR long term program.

I like writing, travelling and videomaking, as a hobby. I sometimes give speeches and workshops on cause marketing, advertising and responsible communication.

I have been a member of the board of EBBF (European Baha'i Business Forum) since 2005.

Kian (Greis) Toyouri Gould (Germany)
Kian Toyouri Gould, one of the youngest entrepreneurs in EBBF, started his first company AOE media at the age of 16. Today AOE media is the world's market-leading service provider for the OpenSource CMS system TYPO3; the most used Content Management System for websites in the world.
AOE media employs 140 developers, designers and programmers from 10 different countries on a fixed freelance basis through a unique system of outsourcing, social responsibility and growth development, which has evolved over the years.

Furthermore Kian is a co-owner of the 3rd-biggest online investment provider company, VSP Financial Services, and last year founded a non-profit film production company named Panacea, which aims to support other NGOs through the utilisation of modern media, with film in particular. Their first DVD production for the International Baha'i Community was released last September.

He is also a senator of the German Association on Economic Affairs (BWA), and writes regularly for their newsletter. With the intention of socially-responsible positive lobbying, the BWA consults with Germany's decisionmakers on a regular basis to achieve advantages not only for its members, but also for the general public.

Kian recently got married and some may know him by the name of Kian Greis. He lives with his wife in Wiesbaden/Germany.

Pamela Hartigan (Ecuador/Switzerland)
Dr. Hartigan joined the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship as its first Managing Director in October 2000. Of Ecuadorian origin, she holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in International Economics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the Institut d'Etudes Europeenes in Brussels. She also has a Masters degree in Education and a PhD in Human Developmental Psychology from American University and Catholic University, respectively, both located in Washington, D.C. Pamela is bilingual in Spanish and English and speaks French.

Her career has included over a decade working with youth; supporting the spawning and consolidation of community-based organizations serving the Latino community in Washington, D.C.; and twelve years at the World Health Organization, beginning at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), WHO's regional office for the Americas. There, she spearheaded initiatives to build collaborative work between governments and Latin American non-governmental organizations working in health and development. Subsequently, she became Chief of the Women, Health and Development Program where, among other initiatives, she launched region-wide mobilization to address violence against women. In 1997, she was selected as Program Manager for the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) where she also coordinated efforts in Applied Field Research in tropical diseases. Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, as Director-General of WHO, appointed her to head the Department of Health Promotion at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, and later as Director of the newly formed Department for Violence and Injury Prevention.

Jan Willem Kirpestein (Netherlands)
co-founder of the Encounter of World Views Foundation - The Netherlands

Jan Willem founded in close co-operation with Mr. Herman Wijffels (former CEO of Rabobank and former chairman of the Social and Economic Council of The Netherlands, at present one of the executive directors of the World Bank) the Encounter of Worldviews Foundation .
He was the inspirational leader, convenor and chief facilitator of the international conference on mutual trust building "Diving into the Deep", held in Putten in 2002. This conference resulted in new initiatives such as The Natural Leadership Foundation, The international dialogue seminar with CEO's in Ede on: "The challenges and dilemma's of business leader in relation to their responsibilities 2004", The international dialogue conference on natural leadership in the State Guesthouse in Beijing 2005, a seminar on authentic leadership, bottlenecks and challenges in the headquarters of the SER in The Hague 2006.

"Persons and organisations function at their best when they can align their day-to-day work with the core of their being, i.e. their purpose, passions and talents. At the end of the day, their achievements in this field will depend on their ability to integrate three forms of intelligence (Triple 'I') : Rational Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, and Spiritual Intelligence. Spiritual intelligence enables people and organisations to discover and develop insight in the core of their being. What is the deepest motivational force and what is the deepest raison d'etre? These are important questions for any group that is working together to achieve a common goal, be it in businesses or NGOs, hospitals or government service. The mobilisation of that knowledge or awareness brings new life to the context of their day-to-day work. Rational intelligence and emotional intelligence can flourish when they are embedded in a mature and well-balanced motivation. This motivational aspect is fostered by spiritual intelligence."

Elisa Mallis (USA/Greece/UK)
Elisa Mallis is a change management consultant and professional coach working for Accenture. Elisa works within large-scale process and systems reintegration projects, to assess change readiness, realign the organization, and implement organization development tools that guide the change and make it successful. Elisa specializes in change management, organization design, leadership and team development program design and implementation, and executive and team coaching and assessment. Elisa is currently spearheading the development of an internal coaching program within Accenture. She has coached numerous corporate executives and leadership teams to experience breakthrough results that are measurable.

Elisa has earned an MA in Organizational Psychology and a MEd in Counseling Psychology both from Columbia University with concentrations in group dynamics and cross-cultural counseling. She has completed corporate coach training at the Graduate School of Coaching and is working toward International Coach Federation (ICF) certification. Elisa is a member of the Organizational Development Network (ODN), the ICF, the ICF's Internal Coaching Programs Committee.

Elisa is also the co-chair of the International Spirit at Work awards.

Larry Miller (USA)
For the past thirty years Lawrence M. Miller has worked to improve the performance of organizations and the skills of their leaders. He began in our prisons. For four years he worked to redesign the prison system by establishing the first free-economy behind prison walls, where each inmate had to pay rent, maintain a checking account, and pay for everything he desired.

He has been consulting, writing and speaking about business organization and culture since 1973. After ten years with another consulting firm, he formed his own firm, the Miller Howard Consulting Group in 1983. In 1998 he sold his firm to Towers Perrin, an international human resource consulting firm and became a Principal of that firm. In 1999 he left that firm to focus on his interest in serving non-profit organizations. For five years he has been consulting on a pro-bono basis with AIESEC International, the global youth leadership organization, and serving on the boards of several other non-profit organizations.

He and his firm were one of the early proponents of team-based management and worked with many clients to implement Team Management from the senior executive team to include every level and every employee in the organization. The Team Management process created a company of business managers, with every employee focused on continuous improvement of business performance. In addition to directing the overall change process, Mr. Miller personally coached the senior management team of many of his clients.

The implementation of Team Management led to the realization that the whole system of the organization needed to be redesigned to create alignment so all systems, structure, skills, style and symbols support the same goals and culture. From this realization he developed the process of Whole System Architecture that is a high involvement method of rethinking all of the systems, structures and culture of the organization. Among his consulting clients have been 3M, Corning, Shell Oil Company, Amoco and Texaco, Shell Chemicals, Air Canada and Varig Airlines, Eastman Chemicals, Xerox, Harris Corporation, McDonald's and Chick-fil-A, Merck and Upjohn Pharmaceuticals, United Technologies, Metropolitan Life and Landmark Communications.

Mr. Miller has authored six books, among them American Spirit: Visions of A New Corporate Culture, which was the text for Honda of America's course on their values and culture; and Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies, which draws on the history of the rise and fall of civilizations to illustrate the patterns of leadership and evolution in corporate cultures. He has also authored Whole System Architecture, a guidebook for redesigning organizations, and Team Management, a workbook for team leaders and members. He is about to publish Change Management: A Leaders Guide to Creating the Dynamic Organization. He has appeared on the Today Show, CNN, made numerous appearances on FNN and CNBC, has written for The New York Times and been the subject of a feature story in Industry Week magazine.

Mr. Miller is currently completing another book, Competing in the New Capitalism: How Individuals, Teams and Companies Succeed by Creating the Currency of Competition in the New Economy.

Wendi Momen (UK)
Wendi Momen holds a BSc in Economics and a Ph.D. in InternationalRelations, both from the London School of Economics.

She has been a magistrate in the criminal court since 1982 and a courtchairman since 1994. She has been a court chairman to the family panel since 1991. She is vice chairmanof the North and Mid-Bedfordshire Bench.

She has been a director and trustee of the National Spiritual Assemblyof the Baha'is of the United Kingdom.

She is a Non-Executive Director of the Bedfordshire Heartlands PrimaryCare Trust and is the Older People's Champion.

She is the chairman of the EBBF, chairman of the One World Trust, and a Trustee of the Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Derby.

Judi Neal (USA)
Graduated with Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Yale University in 1985
Internal organizational development consultant and manager for Honeywell for a total of 5 years
Manager of organizational development for Circuit-Wise, Inc., a family-owned business, for two years
Associate Professor of Management at the University of New Haven for 17 years. Coordinator of Human Resources Program, Coordinator of Tribal Management Program, Director of Center for University/Business Partnerships, Director of the Association for Spirit at Work.
President of Neal and Associates for 20 years. A consulting firm focusing on employee involvement, self-managing teams, leadership development, team building, diversity training, executive coaching, and spirituality in the workplace.

Publications and Speaking Engagements
Author of Edgewalkers: The New Global Human, published by Praeger, June 2006.
Co-author with Dorothy Marcic and Steve Karnick of a book titled Virtues at Work: A 12 Month Program.
Co-author with Dorothy Marcic and Steve Karnick of a book titled Passion and Prosperity in the Workplace.
Author of Four Gateways to Spirit at Work: A Consultants Guide
Author of numerous academic journal articles on spirituality in the workplace
Currently working on two books: (1) The Four Gateways to Spirit at Work, and (2) Friendly Fire: A Spiritual Warrior's Corporate Battle.
Speaker at national and international conferences

Professional Activities:
Member of Board of Directors of International Association for Quality
Member of Board of Directors of Eastern Academy of Management
Member of Board of Directors of High Tor Alliance
Member of Board of Directors of West Haven Economic Development Corporation
Member of Executive Committee of the Management and Education Division of the National Academy of Management
Member of Board of Directors of the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society
Member of Board of Directors of the Management, Spirituality, and Religion Interest Group at the Academy of Management.

Hamid Peseschkian (Germany)
Born in 1962 in Wiesbaden, Germany. He has received a M.D. (1987) and a Doctor of Medicine (1988) both from the University of Mainz, and a D.Sc. (Doctor of Medical Sciences, 1998) from the Bekhterev Psychoneurological Scientific Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia. Dr. Peseschkian is a German Board-certified psychiatrist, neurologist, and psychotherapist.

From 1991 Ð 1999 residence in Russia: Head of Mental Health Services at the American Medical Center in Moscow. Founding of 25 local and regional Centers for Psychotherapy and Family Therapy in Russia and the former USSR. Visiting lecturer at medical schools in Russia.

Current Positions:
Managing Director of the Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy (WIAP), one of the TOP 10 state-licensed postgraduate institutes for psychotherapy in Germany
Private Practice for Psychotherapy.
Director and Trainer of the Institute of Management Training (IMT)
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Center of Positive Psychotherapy.
Visiting Professor, Northern State Medical University (Arkhangelsk, Russia), UTEPSA University (Santa Cruz, Bolivia), Institute of Positive Psychotherapie (Moscow, Russia)

Married, two children (* 1995, *1997).
He has been serving on the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Russia, and currently as an Auxiliary Board member for Protection in Central Germany.

Daniel Truran (UK/Italy/Spain)
EBBF's Secretary General, elected member of EBBF’s governing board, a Director of VIA3, co-founder of Spirit in Business Europe Advisor to the International Spirit at Work award.

He is also engaged in the steering committee of Renaissance Europe. In his work he partners with foundations such as Progressio, European Partners for the Environment.

He has lectured at several universities and conferences on topics including Innovative Financial Models for Social Economic Development, Ethical Finance, Spirituality as a competitive advantage for leaders, CSR and New Paradigms of Management.

Young Professionals group
(Austria/France/UK/Italy)
The vision from the team that better than anyone else understands the issues, the expectations and the visions of the Young Professionals of EBBF.

Mirry Sohrab-Anayati, Shadi Vafaie, Marc Avanzo, Denise Cumella, Sarvenas Ettehadieh-Enayati