Ruediger Fox - Germany

Ruediger is currently Chief Executive Officer at PFW Aerospace AG, a leading tier 1 supplier in the Aviation & Aerospace industry with some 2.000 employees. He joined the company in January of 2007 and quickly implemented a full scale restructuring program including values-driven strategies that drove its staff towards meaningful motivation and responsible behaviours.

Before that he was the Managing Director at Elcoteq Communications Technology GmbH, a Public Company working in the Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry. There he had transformed the company to reach the enviable and quite unique situation of not only saving two plants from closing but actually getting those German production plants to sell to Chinese customers. Reversing the usual outsourcing to China production trend.

Between the end of 2003 and the end of December 2006 he was ALSO Managing Director of Elcoteq Elektronik GmbH.

Previously he was Director at SCM & IT (CNE & IE Europe) Elcoteq SE.

Laura Ponasso - Italy

My field of work is the communication made with new digital media (in particular Internet). At the moment I manage teams, projects and clients of a new media company - LBI IconMedialab.

My burning issue is how to emprove my ability in values based leadership

I enjoy supporting EBBF activities offering my support in spreading values and sharing my working experiences with other EBBF members.

I've a degree in letters and philosophy and a postgraduate course in audiovisual techniques. Today I'm working in a new-media company in Milan in the role of client manager. I like cinema, modern art, music, sport and sea. The last book i've read is Tao of Physics di Fritjof Capra.

Arthur Dahl (Switzerland/France/USA)

Arthur Dahl brings to the governing board more than 40 years international experience in environment and sustainability. He holds a PhD in Marine Biology from the University of California.

His career as a research scientist on complex ecological systems and organizing intergovernmental programmes on environment in various parts of the world led to responsibilities in the secretariat for the Rio Earth Summit (1992) drafting Agenda 21, as Coordinator of the UN System-wide Earthwatch, and as a Deputy Assistant Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. He is presently President of the International Environment Forum (a partner organization for EBBF), and on the Board of Directors of the Global Islands Network. He is a leading expert on indicators of sustainability, islands and coral reefs, and has collaborated on projects with the World Economic Forum and other international organizations, and is the author of many publications and books including "The Eco Principle: Ecology and Economics in Symbiosis". He is presently coordinator of the UNEP/University of Geneva Environmental Diplomacy Programme and also teaches and lectures widely on sustainable development.

Marieke Kersten (Netherlands)

Marieke has created with her working partner a start up enterprise dedicated to empowering youth entrepreneurs. In just two years she tripled her organization's size.

Providing their clients with a fresh outlook on existing processes and strategies; organizing events; performing research; helping clients to get a job done in time.

She further specializes in providing assistance in the field of organizational change and development, marketing, management and communication.

She has written a paper on spirituality in business and is interested in coaching training methods relating to values and Spirituality. She was a Student of Persian and Management.

Gianpiero De Martinis (Italy)

Gianpiero is working for the University of Turin, Italy.

With Professor M. Cisi he is monitoring the publication of sustainability reports in Italy, in the private and public sector.

He is part of the EBBF events team and has additionally just started an EBBF internship, working on the development of indicators and assessment tools for CSO Projects promoting Values-based Education for Sustainable Development.

Alumni of AIESEC, he has collaborated in Italy, Argentina and Indonesia to develop a new generation of leaders inspired by positive values.

He holds a BSc in Economics and a Master in International Studies at the International Training Center of the I.L.O.

Mika Korhonen (Finland)

Mika Korhonen, 36, is an experienced software product development professional with over a dozen years experience of product development and telecom scene in Finland and abroad.

He has worked over 8 years for telecom giant Nokia in Finland and India, for a telecom billing service business as Director of R&D, and as a product program manager in electronic device development start-up. Most recently he took a positon as Project Manager in a smartphone division of a software house SYSOPENDIGIA in Finland. In his field he is specialized in agile project management methods which combine perfectly holistic approach and performance.

Mika has been studying leadership in Helsinki University of Technology focusing coaching kind of leadership: putting together best sports coaching practices, latest business leadership views and the Baha'i perspective. His genuine interest towards ethics in business, values-based leadership, collaborative decision-making and fostering creativity and innovation has so far resulted in several talks and workshops he has given to different audiences in Finland.

His interest towards application of values and ethics in everyday work and finding purpose beyond profit brought him into EBBF 2004. Mika was nominated onto the EBBF board in September of 2007 and is currently an elected board member. He has also been the EBBF National Representative for Finland since 2006.

Mika has also several years of experience in organizing events in voluntary-based not-for-profit environment, and serves currently as a member of EBBF events organizing team.

Wendi Momen (UK)

Wendi Momen, a founder member of EBBF, is a social activist involved in a number of organisations with a related purpose: the betterment of humanity.

Her main focus is on the advancement of women and their participation in decision-making at all levels, on sustainable living and on social justice.

She is the chairman of the EBBF, secretary of the UN National Committee for UNIFEM, a Trustee of the Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Derby, chair of the Bedford Council of Faiths, a Non-Executive Director of the Bedfordshire Primary Care Trust and an elected Councillor of Northill Parish Council.

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

She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), a member of Soroptimist International (SI Bedford) and an individual member of the National Council of Women.

She holds a BSc in Economics and a Ph.D. in International Relations, both from the London School of Economics.

She was a director and trustee of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United Kingdom from 1982 to 2005 and is immediatre past chair of the One World Trust.

Mahmud Samandari (Switzerland)

Mahmud has held the following positions:

. Chairman and CEO of TACOM/TELEHOLDING Consortium, the technological operator of the public transportation system of the city of Guayaquil, METROVIA.

. CEO of GLOBATEL, a satellite interactive distance learning service provider and software development company for mobile solutions

. Founder and CEO of TELEHOLDING a company specialized in advanced telecom services

. Founder and Chairman of Micronet, a public/private mixed company, operating a network of Service Centers for Micro entrepreneurs

. Chairman of Fundación Cultural y Educativa Baha’i, the operator of schools in Otavalo y Guayaquil

. Founding member of EBBF (European Baha’i Business Forum)

. External Advisor to AIESEC Ecuador and EBBF liaison to AIESEC International, the largest student association in the world, based in more than 100 countries

. Member of CERES, the Ecuadorian Corporation for Social Responsibility

. Member of the Board of Directors of MACOSA, a banking software company, exporting to all of Latin America

. Member of the Board of Directors of TVCABLE Ecuador

. Director of INFOTEC S.A, an innovative banking and financial software company based in Switzerland with offices in the UK, France, Germany and Belgium

. Owner and CEO of Equatorial Technologies, a manufacturer of professional satellite antennas, exported to all of Latina America

. Member of the Board of Directors of َ Alliance Française of Quito

. Founder and Director of the ¨Careers´Office¨ of the Graduate Institute for International Studies

. Member of the Rotary Club

. Member of CSR Geneva

. Member of the Junior Chamber International of Geneva

. Member of the American-Ecuadorian Chamber of Commerce

. Chairman of the Coordination Committee for Baha’i Radio in Latin America

Mahmud has a Ph.D in International Law from the Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland and a Licence en Droit from the University of Geneva

Currently based in Geneva, he is married with three children.

Daniel Truran (UK/Italy/Spain)

EBBF Secretary General

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).