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Jeffrey Schwartz

Current positions

  • Professor of Anthropology and History of Science and Resident
  • Fellow of the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
  • Research Associate, American Museum of Anthropology and Carnegie Museum of Natural History
  • Forensic Anthropologist, Allegheny County Medical Examiners Office
  • Faculty, Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law, Duquesne University
  • Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Vienna

Education

  • B.A. (1969), M.Phil. (1973), and Ph.D. (1974), Columbia University
  • External studies, University College-London and Natural History Museum (London) Postdoctoral fellowships; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; American Museum of Natural History; University Museum and Institute, University of Zürich-Irchel

Publications

  • The Red Ape: Orangutans and Human Origins (revised and updated). Westview Press, 2005.
  • Skeleton Keys: An introduction to human skeletal morphology, development, and analysis (2nd edition, revised and updated, with CD). Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • 12 others including books co-authored, edited, and coedited
  • 129 articles (excluding abstracts and book reviews)

Associations (selected)

  • (Fellow) American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology
  • American Association of Physical Anthropologists
  • Philosophy of Science Association
  • Society for the Study of Evolution

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Jose Ireneu dos Remedios Furtado is a behavioural and natural resources ecologist, with research experience in freshwater ecology and fisheries, and watershed and integrated farming systems dynamics. He was Professor of Zoology and coordinator of the Ecology degree program at the University of Malaya; Science Adviser at the Commonwealth Secretariat, London responsible also for its cooperative S&T and environment programme; and Senior Environmental Specialist at the World Bank responsible for its environmental and sustainable development training programme for policy and decision-makers. He served as Secretary of the Malaysian Scientific Association, Vice Chairman of the Malaysian National Council on Science & Technology for Development, and Chairman of the Commission on Ecology of the World Conservation Union. In the course of his work he has advised country officials on environmentally sustainable development and science & technology issues. He has jointly authored / edited several books (including Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: Policies and Principles for a Durable Equilibrium, 2000, World Bank Institute; Tropical Resource Ecology and Development, 1990, Harwood Academic Publishers; Sustainable Clean Water, 1987, Schweizerbartsche; Tasek Bera: The Ecology of a Freshwater Swamp, 1982, Junk; Tropical Ecology and Development, 1980, International Society of Tropical Ecology; Transnational Environmental Policy: Aspects and Prospects, 1977, East-West Centre) and numerous technical publications; and has supervised numerous graduate students. He is currently Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, and consulting for international development agencies and institutions. Education: B.Sc. Honours (Zoology), Western Australia; Ph.D. (Behavioural ecology & Limnology), Malaya.

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John M. Cox is an independent management consultant practicing in San Rafael, California. Drawing on nearly thirty years of management and consulting activities, Mr. Cox provides consulting experience and expertise to clients active in financial markets and related fields. Mr. Cox's consulting engagements focus on strategic level problem solving in the areas of resource allocation, risk management, market positioning, line of business definition and management challenges faced by larger scale financial institutions. Mr. Cox also provides advisory services to domestic and foreign governments relating to the structure, behavior, performance and management of their financial markets and institutions. Mr. Cox's experience has included global competitiveness strategy development for the United Arab Emirates, economic diversification studies for the city Charlotte, North Carolina, and financial services diversification strategies for a major Japanese automobile manufacturer. For fifteen years, Mr. Cox was associated with SRI International, Menlo Park, California (formerly Stanford Research Institute). Prior to joining SRI, Mr. Cox served as Vice President of BankAmerica Corporation, the parent company of Bank of America, San Francisco. Earlier, Mr. Cox was Vice President in Bank of America's International and Corporate Banking Groups where he held responsibilities for Canada and for corporate banking clients on the U.S. East Coast. Mr. Cox holds degrees in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and did graduate studies in international relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

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Walter Truett Anderson is a political scientist, futurist, and author of numerous books including To Govern Evolution, Reality Isn’t What It Used To Be, The Future of the Self, All Connected Now: Life in the First Global Civilization, and The Next Enlightenment. He is a Founding Fellow of the Meridian International Institute, a Fellow of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, and a Distinguished Consulting Professor at the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco. He served the Academy as Vice-President from 1993 to 2000, and as President from 2000 to 2008. Education: B.A. (political science), University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D. (political science and social psychology), University of Southern California. Homepage: www.waltanderson.info

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Robert J. Berg co-chairs the Funding Committee of the Academy's Board of Trustees. He has served as senior advisor to a number of parts of the UN, including the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa, the World Education Forum and the World Summit for Children. He proposed and co-authored the UN's first system-wide substantive initiative, the second being the Millennium Development Goals. Currently he is on a UN expert group concerned with the economic and governance implications of climate change. For many years he led the International Development Conference, the largest forum on international development issues in the US. Prior to that he was senior fellow at the Overseas Development Council, a think tank, and founded the evaluation work of USAID and the OECD/DAC. He serves on non-profit boards in higher education and international development, focusing on peace, community development and health. He currently works with graduate students from number of universities studying UN reform issues. He is senior advisor to the World Federation of United Nations Associations. Email: BobBerg500@cs.com

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Daniel Coates, Biography – WAAS Trustee

Corporate director.

In recent years, largely devoted to voluntary service and philanthropy in Canada and abroad, including the Middle East (social justice, human rights, environmental health, education), while remaining engaged in Canadian national politics.

A career in the public (Government of Canada, both official and political) and private sectors, at senior management levels, including Deputy Minister level advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada, Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance & Administration, and chief executive officer of several Canadian firms and of national charitable organizations. Personal and official fonds (papers, etc.) with National Library & Archives of Canada.

Earned MS and PhD, Cornell University, post doctoral Research Fellow, Harvard – Kennedy School and Graduate School of Education, a one year faculty appointment.

Born in Haifa, British Mandate of Palestine, of a British father serving his government there and a Lebanese mother, a devoted nurse. Immigrated from the UK to Montreal, Canada at the age of nine. Resides in Canada’s National Capital Region. 

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Garry Jacobs is an American-born consultant on business management and economic development with extensive international experience in USA, Western and Eastern Europe, and Asia. Jacobs is Vice President of The Mother's Service Society, a social science research institute in Pondicherry, South India. Since 1972 he has been engaged in research at MSS on economic and social development, management, psychology, and education. His work includes theoretical research on social development, organizational theory and money as well as studies for the Indian Planning Commission’s task force on Vision 2020, the Prime Minister's Office and state governments. Since 1995 he is Executive Director, International Center for Peace & Development, (Napa, CA), the successor organization to the International Commission on Peace & Food (ICPF), which conducts research on strategies to promote global peace and development. From 1989 to 1994, He was Member-Secretary of ICPF, convener of ICPF’s working groups on Employment and on Transition in Eastern Europe, coordinator of the ICPF research team that evolved a strategy to generate 100 million new jobs in India, and editor of the Commission's report to the UN entitled Uncommon Opportunities: Agenda for Peace and Equitable Development. Jacobs is also a management consultant and partner since 1987 in Mira International, a consulting firm providing management guidance to firms in a wide range of industries in the USA, Europe and India. His work includes assignments for small, medium and large corporations on strategies to elevate corporate values, accelerate growth, and improve profitability. He is co-author of two books on the process of corporate growth: The Vital Difference: Unleashing the Powers of Sustained Corporate Success, and The Vital Corporation: How American Companies Large and Small Double Profits in Two Years or Less.

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Lorenz K. Ng, M.D. is Vice President, Research Alliances and Business Development for China and Asia Pacific. He was Director of Medical and Regulatory Affairs for Eli Lilly in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, from 1998-2001. Ng was born in Singapore and has lived in the United States since 1958. He earned his B.A. from Stanford University in 1961 and M.D. degree from Columbia University in 1965. He completed his neurology specialty training at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in 1969, and from 1969-72 he was a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. From 1972-81, Ng served in various high level positions at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) in Rockville, Maryland. In 1986, he established the Washington Pain and Rehabilitation Center, Inc. in a joint venture with the Medlantic Healthcare Corporation in Washington, D.C. and served as its President and Medical Director from 1986-98. Ng was Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology of George Washington University Medical School in Washington, D.C. and also Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Neurosurgery of Johns Hopkins Medical School from 1993-1998. He was a member of the Advisory Council of the Alternative Medicine Program of NIH in Bethesda from 1996-98. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Pain Medicine in Chicago from 1990-93 and the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association in New Jersey from 1993-98. He has authored and co-authored over seventy articles in scientific journals and professional books. His book publications include: Principles and Practice of Contemporary Acupuncture (with S. Liao and M.Lee,1994); Strategies for Public Health (Ed.with D. Davis, 1981); Pain, Discomfort and Humanitarian Care (Ed. with J. Bonica, 1980); Alternatives to Violence (Ed.,1968), and Population Crisis: Implications and Plans for Action (Ed.with S. Mudd, 1965).

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Ivo Slaus is a nuclear and particle physicist and director of South East European Division of the Academy (SEED). He is also a member of the international advisory council of the Club of Rome and former president of the Croatian Association of the Club of Rome; a member of the Pugwash Council and former president of Croatian Pugwash; a founding Fellow of Academia Europaea; a member of the managing board of the Balkan Political Club; Chairman, International Network of Centres for Sustainable Development; founder and former Executive Committee member of the European Physical Society; Fellow World Innovation Foundation, and a former member of the Parliament of Croatia. Professor Slaus has held academic teaching posts at Rudjer Bošković Institute, Croatia, UCLA, Georgetown University, Duke University, and the International postgraduate school “Jozef Stefan”, Ljubljana (since 2003). He has received national awards for research in 1962 and in 1969.

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Alberto Zucconi, a clinical psychologist is a former student and collaborator of the late Dr. Carl Rogers, one of the founding fathers of Humanistic Psychology and originator of the Client-Centered Therapy and the Person Centered Approach, a scientifically formulated paradigm that has impacted the fields of psychology, education and management. Dr. Zucconi is the president of the Person-Centered Approach Institute (IACP), a non-profit international organization, co-founded with Carl Rogers and Charles Devonshire and dedicated to research in human behaviour, the promotion of health and the training of professionals. IACP is a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for research, training and consulting in Health Promotion at the workplace in Italy and the Host Institution for the SOLVE programs of the International Labour Office (ILO) in Italy. Dr. Zucconi was a faculty member of the Western Behavioural Science Institute (WBSI) in La Jolla, CA., a senior staff member of the Carl Rogers’ Peace Institute that has organized with the United Nations University for Peace cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution meetings with heads of state and diplomats. Dr. Zucconi has been working internationally for 35 years as a trainer, lecturer and consultant for public and private organizations and is currently teaching Client Centered Therapy and the Person Centered Approach, at the post graduate level at the University of Siena (Italy), faculty of medicine. He has authored several articles and books focused on psychology, psychotherapy and health promotion and designed and directed various research projects.

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Dr. R.A. Mashelkar, CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow, is presently also the President of Global Research Alliance, a network of publicly funded R&D institutes from Asia-Pacific, Europe and USA with over 60,000 scientists. He is also the Chairman of India’s National Innovation Foundation. 

Dr. Mashelkar served as the Director General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and as  the President of Indian National Science Academy.   

Dr. Mashelkar is a Fellow of Royal Society (FRS), Foreign Associate of National Academy of Science (USA), Foreign Fellow of US National Academy of Engineering and Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K. 

Twenty-eight universities have honoured him with honorary doctorates, which include Universities of London, Salford, Pretoria, Wisconsin and Delhi.

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Ana Maria Sandi is an education and futures studies specialist. She holds a PhD in mathematics and was involved in research, training and operation work in European and Central Asia countries. Her engagements focused on: the design and implementation of education reform strategies; analysis and design of education management and evaluation policies (quality assurance and improvement, education relevance, efficiency measures, including optimization of school networks); support for developing education for the knowledge economy and for enhancing equity in education; community driven development, social capital development, poverty alleviation; forecasting methodologies, social forecasting, social impact assessment, societal learning, and gender issues; project design and management, coordination of interdisciplinary teams, organizing training programs. Ms. Sandi was lead education specialist at the World Bank; head of the an UNDP Women in Development Unit; head of research teams at the Institute of Educational Sciences in Bucharest and at the University of Bucharest (where she was also associate professor). She has done reviews of national education policies for OECD (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland) and was involved in major international projects such as No Limits to Learning for the Club of Rome and Goals, Processes and Indicators for Development for the UNU. She has co-authored Impact Studies in 1986 and authored more than 20 articles and book contributions. She is a member of the board of the Romanian Academic Society and a member of the Balkan Political Club.

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Professor Manderson has a distinguished career as a medical anthropologist, social historian and public health researcher and educator, playing a lead role in training and research in infectious and chronic disease, gender and sexuality, immigration, ethnicity and inequality, in Australia, Southeast and East Asia, and Africa. This includes her work as Professor of Tropical Health (U Queensland, 1988-1998), Professor of Women’s Health (U Melbourne, 1999-2005), and since 2006 at Monash University, Australia, as Professor of Medical Anthropology in the School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts. She is also an Honorary Professor at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and Khon Kaen University, Thailand. She has been awarded c. $12 million of competitive research funds, including, as singular acknowledgement of her achievements, her award as an inaugural Australian Research Council Federation Fellow; this provided her with high level funding for five years at Melbourne and Monash Universities to undertaken research on chronic conditions, disability, and social participation and inclusion. She is the author of almost 500 books, articles, book chapters and reports, including Sickness and the State (1996), Global Health Policy, Local Realities (2000) and Chronic Conditions, Fluid States (2010), and with the support of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Rethinking Wellbeing (2005) and Social Capital and Social Justice (2009).  Her current research includes a study of immigration, identity and parenting, with specific projects with Iraqi and Cambodian communities; the links between biomedical care and the use of complementary and alternative medicine among people with cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus; and an intervention program to enhance connectivity through teaching basic computer and internet skills to people with chronic conditions and limited physical mobility. Much of her work with Indigenous and immigrants Australians is applied; this includes work with the Queensland Government and Victorian hospitals to produce guidelines for practice to enhance access to services and to provide cultural appropriate services. She has trained to graduation over 100 higher degree students and mentored dozens of other trainees, research interns and colleagues in Australia and overseas; in recognition of this she was awarded the American Anthropological Association, Medical Anthropology Students’ Association Mentor Award in 2007.  She is an inaugural member, Australian Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC), National Health, Well-Being and Security Thematic Foresighting Cluster; inaugural member, Scientific Advisory Committee for Stewardship on Research on Infectious Disease of Poverty (SAC-STE), WHO/TDR (Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases) (2008-2010), member of the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa, funded by Wellcome Trust for 8 years; and editor of the international journal Medical Anthropology (2010-2014).