Dorothy Marcic (USA)
Dorothy Marcic is a faculty member at Vanderbilt University. She lived in Prague for four years, where she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Economics - Prague, teaching MBA students and practicing managers.

During the past 25 years, Dorothy has conducted over 900 highly-rated seminars on many topics and has done consulting for executives at AT&T Bell Labs; the Governor and Cabinet of North Dakota; the U.S. Department of State; and Hallmark Corporation. She has worked with health care organizations in the U.S. and Latin America and was a professor in Health Administration. While in Europe she served as advisor to the U.S. Ambassador of the Czech Republic and was a delegate to the United Nations Economic and Social Development Summit in Copenhagen.

Dorothy's research and consulting interests currently are on how to develop the kinds of structures, values and systems that help create the New Workplace. Addressing that issue is the focus of one of the ten books she has authored - Managing With the Wisdomn of Love: Uncovering Virtue in Organizations, which was selected as one of 1997's top ten management books. Her most recent book, RESPECT: Women and Popular Music, describes the empowerment of women, as seen through the eyes of popular music.

Dorothy loves working in the media and has done two weekly radio programs on public radio, as well as being a production assistant, many years ago, on the TV program, Mister Rogers Neighborhood.

When she is not working or writing, Dorothy spends time with her husband Dick Daft, their five daughters, or singing songs that soothe her soul.

Julian MacQueen

With over 40 years experience in the hospitality industry, and starting as a busboy at the age of 15, Julian MacQueen has extensive management experience in hotel operations and development. Before forming Innisfree Hotels (www.innisfree.com <http://www.innisfree.com/> ) in 1985, he served as Executive Vice President of Family Inns of America and in sales and marketing positions with Hyatt and other urban convention oriented hotels. He has developed, purchased and sold dozens of hotel properties over the last 30 years though out the Southern United States. The success of Innisfree Hotels can be attributed to his hands-on approach, his commitment to quality, and most importantly, the loyalty and experience that is displayed by all Innisfree employees. MacQueen Enterprises consists of a development company, a real estate company, and a hotel management company and most recently an aviation company (www.innisfreejetcenter.com <http://www.innisfreejetcenter.com/> ). Currently MacQueen Enterprises has $500 million in the pipeline of developer controlled property, 600 employees, and assets of $275 million property in its portfolio with $45 million in annual revenue.

Other business ventures over the years have ranged from his first business in hot air balloons to his current involvement in ‘BrainPort’ technology. Julian was one of 10 founding stockholders and board members of First American Bank N.A. which had a compounded annual growth of over 20% for the first ten years until it was purchased by Synovus Bank. He then joined the board of another start up bank, Beach Community Bank of Ft. Walton Beach, (www.beachcommunitybank.com <http://www.beachcommunitybank.com/> ) which has enjoyed the largest growth of any of its Florida peer banks breaking $500 million in assets in the first five years while achieving the highest CAMEL rating by the Federal Reserve for asset quality. Julian is the third largest stockholder.

Julian holds a board position and is the second largest stockholder of a start up medical technology device company, Wicab Inc., (www.wicab.com <http://www.wicab.com/> ) which is in the process of developing and marketing the first ‘BrainPort’ technology applying the tongue as a replacement sense for balance and sight. CE approval was gained this year in Europe and FDA approval should be received by the end of the year in the U.S. Marketing divisions have been established in Europe, Latin America, and the USA.

Julian holds a B.S. in psychology from The University of South Alabama. He is a commercial pilot with instructor ratings and a jet type rating. He spent 3 years volunteering as General Manager of the Buildings and Grounds of the Bahá'í World Centre in Haifa, Israel. He serves as a founding board member of the North American Brain Injury Society and the Independence of the Blind of North West Florida. He enjoys flying his 1943 flying boat (a Grumman Widgeon) water skiing, snowboarding, scuba diving, sailing and traveling with his wife, Kim. He has two adult children and his first grandson.

David G. Patterson

David G. Patterson founded and is the Chair & Chief Executive Officer of the Northwater Group of Companies, which includes the main operating company, Northwater Capital Management Inc. (Northwater). Northwater currently has $9 billion assets under management.

Since Northwater’s inception in 1989, Mr. Patterson has led the successful establishment and growth of the firm toward its present stature as an internationally recognized leader in innovative “alpha + beta” investment strategies, specifically market-neutral funds of hedge funds and synthetic index products for sophisticated institutional pension plans and endowment funds.

Mr. Patterson is widely respected at the executive-level of many of the largest pension plans in the world for his clarity regarding the fiduciary responsibilities of Board members, his appreciation for the significance of governance, his adeptness in creating solutions to seemingly intractable problems, his ability to communicate complex information understandably, his attention to risk and risk management, his record of “thinking two steps ahead,” and his unfailing fair treatment of clients and high ethical standards.

In addition to his many professional and executive roles in the investment industry, Mr. Patterson also supports and is directly involved in many community and education-oriented endeavours, particularly Trent University and children’s camping.

Mr. Patterson holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree from Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario) and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Toronto (Canada).

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.

Nousha Etemad (Canada)
Nousha Etemad is currently a manager in the Technology Integration practice of Deloitte, focusing on IT Strategy and Management. Her experience covers the range of CIO challenges, from defining IT strategy to measuring and maximizing IT value as well as optimizing performance.

A highly experienced project manager with international work experience, a member of Project Management Institute (PMI), and a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with focus on Business Intelligence, e-learning and IT Transformation Projects. Her educational background is in Mathematics (BSc.) and Mechanical Engineering (BESc.).

She is also a member of the board of the recently launched Canadian Baha'i Business Forum (CBBF).

Nousha has developed training materials and facilitated different workshops on topics such as "Improving Employee-Employer Relationships: Motivation, Compensation adn Benefits" and "Leadership in Times of Paradox".

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.

Zarin Buckingham (Slovakia)
Degree in Computer Science, Information technology and Curriculum Development.

Training in adult education , MA. Eductional Psychology. 20 years working experience, the last 15 years in education of Adults and Children.

Director and founder of Forel International School since 2001. Close cooperation with NGOs and socially active organizations. publication of educational articles.

Board Member of EBBF.

Married, mother of two girls ages 8 and 11.

Jean Pierre Méan (France/Switzerland)

Jean-Pierre Méan is presently Senior Vice President of Legal and Compliance for the SGS Group in Switzerland. SGS, with more than 48,000 employees around the world, is the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company and is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. Jean-Pierre is also responsible for management of the group's ethics programme and has a particular interest in the subject of bribery and corruption.

Amongst his current positions we include:

- Commission on Anti-Corruption of the International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, France.

- Board of the Swiss Chapter of the International Chamber of Commerce, Zurich, Switzerland.

- Board of the Swiss Chapter of Transparency International, Bern, Switzerland.

- Steering Committee of the Business Principles for Countering Bribery, a joint initiative of Transparency International and Social Accountability.

- International Board of the International Federation of Inspection Agencies (IFIA), London, UK.

Augusto Lopez Claros (Bolivia/Switzerland)
Former, Chief Economist and Director, Global Competitiveness Programme, World Economic Forum.
Degree in Mathematical Statistics, Cambridge University; PhD in Economics, Duke University.
Formerly: Professor, University of Chile, Santiago; 1992-95, Resident Representative, International Monetary Fund, Russian Federation; Executive Director and Senior International Economist, Lehman Brothers, London.
Author of numerous articles on international economic issues, including: The Search for Efficiency in the Adjustment Process: Spain in the 1980s (1988); The European Monetary System: Developments and Perspectives (co-author, 1990); Fiscal Policy Issues During the Transition in Russia (1998); Ten Years of Russian Economic Reform (2002); Reforming the IMF (2002); The Role of the International Financial Organizations During the Transition in Russia (2003).
Interests: the role of interdependence and cooperation in the emergence of global institutions; the importance of international institutions in their role of promoting and safeguarding human prosperity; examining the meaning and implications of "better management of the globalization process."

Paul Hughes (Netherlands)
Creative Director Lava Design.

Paul Hughes left the rolling green hills of his native Ireland, shortly after completing his studies in Visual Communication, and arrived in the distinctive flat planes of the Netherlands, where he has worked in the creative industries for the last ten years.

Currently, based in Amsterdam, he is strategic director of Lava graphic studios and additionally he travels to New York as a consultant to Design Machine.

Paul Hughes has held visiting lectureships at a variety of institutes in the United States and Europe, including: School of Visual Arts New York, Parsons School of Design NY, New York University, The Fashion Institute of NY, University of Vilnius, Lithuania, National College of Art, Ireland, Hojer College, Denmark, Bergen Academy of Arts, Norway, Hallo Academy Amsterdam, Willem De Kooning Rotterdam, Eindhoven Design Academy.

Many institutes have also called upon his knowledge as a jury member. Recently these have included: Yale University (USA) academic evaluations, Print magazine interactive annual (USA), and Vilnius European Capital of Culture 2009 logo competition (Lithuania).

Michael Hammer (UK)
Executive Director of the One World Trust.

Governance, rights and accountability, and the sustainable management of organisations, planning and change processes have become wired into his career.

Before joining the Trust Michael worked as Programme Director with Amnesty International and Conciliation Resources, Projects Manager and private sector consultant for Germany based company Institut Raum & Energie in European Integration, and conducted applied research on access to land for the poor and urban and rural Africa. Research, policy development and operational management in these areas are often rich in conflict. They require sustainable solutions based on strategic vision, accountable governance and cooperation, sensitivity to conflict, and joined up planning with stakeholders. Developing these for organisations and political governance processes in the public and private sphere is therefore what he is most interested in. Having studied in Hamburg (Germany) and Dakar (Senegal) Michael holds a Research Masters in Geography, History and Urban Planning.

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.

Gordon Naylor, BA, M.Ed. (USA)

The development of human potential has been the focus of Mr. Naylor’s work for more than thirty years. He has, for the past twenty-two years, been Executive Director of his privately owned residential treatment service for abused youth and children with over two hundred and fifty employees and two hundred residential beds.

He is the founder and Executive Director of Nancy Campbell Collegiate Institute, a private, international elementary and secondary school. The school seeks to inspire academic excellence within a clear moral framework for world citizenship. It has been rated a number one academic school by the Fraser Institute.

Mr. Naylor also serves as the Executive Director of Wildfire Outdoor Education Centre, educating youth in Whole Earth Citizenship and inspiring them to become leaders in championing environmental issues.

He has served as a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'is of Canada since 2000.

Gary Reusche (Ukraine)
Mr. Reusche is a free lance development consultant, management consultant, trainer, and professor.

He has over 25 years project management experience in more than 40 countries, including 15 years as project director or team leader. He has extensive experience as a trainer in both academic and non-academic environments for topics including small enterprise development, project cycle management, participatory processes, leadership, institutional development, cultural transformation, team building, business planning, values and ethics, fund raising, and rural development.

He is experienced in the writing of business plans, company partnering, financial engineering, rapid appraisal methodologies, the design of projects, M&E, agribusiness, and market research.

His clients include the World Bank, European Union, Senter/DGIS (NL), USAID, UNDP, FAO, DFID (UK), Global Environmental Fund, Abu Dhabi Fund, and the private sector.

He was recently rewarded a "medal of honour" by the Government of Ukraine for the management of a project supporting the development of rural small enterprises.

Emanuel Gavert (Sweden)
Emanuel Gavert has a bachelor degree in International Business from Stockholm School of Business.

He joined the global youth leadership development organization AIESEC three years back in Sweden, his country of origin.

After working in leadership positions, locally, nationally and regionally, Emanuel is now the Global Networks Manager of AIESEC International.

Metodija Trajkovski - Republic of Macedonia

Meto is currently doing an internship with ABN AMRO Bank, as global coordinator of the ABN AMRO – AIESEC partnership. In this role, Meto is responsible for attracting and sourcing the AIESEC talent for the bank and coordinating leadership and sustainability programs that the bank is running in partnership with AIESEC.

He has previously worked in various roles for AIESEC in France and AIESEC in the Republic of Macedonia.

Meto holds a B.A in Financial Management from the Faculty of Economics, University “Ss. Cyril & Methodius”, in the Republic of Macedonia.

Denise Cumella (Italy)

She is the director of the European Ethical Communication Team of the multinational cosmetic company Lush and Marketing Director at Lush Italia.

Hired in 2003 as a PR, she has been involved in most of the brand management aspects (online, offline, in store communication, events).

Prior to that she has been a consultant for two years in communication in the international company Hopscotch Milano. Denise's roles have included: media relations, web marketing, events managing, products naming-pricing-launching. Denise has worked for companies in the IT, ethical, web, retail, beverage and food sectors.

She is 28 and at 18 she moved from Sicily, her mother land, to Milan to study marketing communication in Accademia di Comunicazione.

Since 2001, Denise has been a member of the European Baha'i Business Forum (EBBF), she takes part in the local activities such as workshops and conferences.

Daniel Truran (UK/Italy/Spain)
Daniel is passionate about connecting individuals to their integrity, creativity and ethics. Inspiring them into action by linking them to other like-minded doers and to their ideas. He believes and wants to demonstrate through innovative enterprises how ethical behaviours in business are directly linked to success. Promoting the evolution towards a world that will be organised, act and behave as one country. Where the creativity of the diversity of its citizens will enhance the wellbeing and prosperity of humankind.

Following a career as Logistics and Marketing director at Exel plc. working in London, Sydney, Johannesburg and Milan, he is currently Secretary General of the European Baha’i Business Forum (www.ebbf.org), board member of Spirit in Business (www.spiritinbusiness.org), Vice President of Humanica Social Ventures, a Director of Via3 (www.via3.net), Board of Trustees member of the Association for Spirit at Work (www.spiritatwork.org).

Kimmo Vesajoky (Finland)
Kimmo Vesajoki enjoys two successful careers: one as sales director of a leading IT provider in Finland and another as a father of four children between the ages of 7-0 years.

Before joining forces with his current employer in the beginning of May 2005, Kimmo worked for 3 years as a director and member of a management team in a leading IT-software vendor operating in the Nordic telecom market. Kimmo has also several years of work experience as a technical consultant and CRM specialist for large Nordic ITC houses, such as TietoEnator and Ementor Group.

Studying business management alongside his work, Kimmo has a special interest in Value Based Leadership and Spirituality in Business. His burning issue is: what can we do to help accelerate the transition to values based leadership that values spirituality in business?

Kimmo is also a board member of a Finnish eco-store Ekolo Ltd. He has been a member of the European Bahá’í Business Forum since 2004 and is also a founding member of an NGO called Global Discourse that has arranged well over 100 seminars and other events on globalization since it’s inception in 1996.

Kimmo holds Master of Science in Business Administration and Economics degree from the University of Jyväskylä, where he studied computer science and economics specializing in software business.