Lady Fiona Montagu of Beaulieu, born in Zimbabwe , is a Director of Beaulieu Enterprises Ltd (www.beaulieu.co.uk). She was appointed as first Global Ambassador to the Club of Budapest (www.clubofbudapest.org). She is an International Advisor to Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams' World Centres of Compassion for Children (www.wccci.org). She is a member of the Advisory Board for KidsRights (www.kidsrights.info) and serves with Hon Chairmen M Gorbachev and R Muller on The World Wisdom Council dedicated to improving Global Ethics especially in the media. Lady Montagu also serves as a Trustee of Yasuhiko Kimura's organisation Vision-in-Action.

Fiona Montagu is a philanthropist, dedicated to the future of Humankind and is patron of many charities including the Hunger Project. She studies practical metaphysics with a view to raising global consciousness by building bridges of awareness, compassion and co-operation between the nations of our planet Her metaphysical co-worker is Gillian R Wright (www.lucid-living.com)

Jane Taylor is a former ITN journalist, Parliamentary Lobby Journalist, TV documentary maker and broadcaster, who has spent the last 15 years developing Positive News in print, on the radio and on the web.

She is currently advising a number of organisations including The Positive Foundation, The People's Foundation and Aluna, the world's first tidal-powered moon clock.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Trustee of the Cancer Prevention and Education Society and a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest.

Elisabet is an evolution biologist, futurist, business consultant, event organizer and UN consultant on indigenous peoples. She is a popular lecturer, television and radio personality, author of EarthDance, Biology Revisioned co-authored with Willis Harman and A Walk Through Time: From Stardust To Us (with prologue by Brian Swimme and epilog by Sidney Liebes).

Elisabet has taught at the Univ. of Massachusetts, M.I.T. and was a science writer for the NOVA/ HORIZON TV series. She has lived extensively in Greece and the Peruvian Andes. Her vision is the sustainable health and well-being of humanity within the larger living systems of Earth and Cosmos.

Bernard is Chairman of the ACCESS Foundation, an educational non-profit organization relating to monetary innovations aiming at re-aligning sustainability and global financial interests. (www.terratrc.org)

Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources of the University of California at Berkeley. (http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/csrd); Member of the Club of Rome; Fellow at the World Academy of Arts and Sciences; of the World Business Academy; and of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; Founding Member of the Global Futures Forum (www.thegff.com)

A detail bio of Bernard Lietaer is available here: http://www.lietaer.com/home/detailedbio.html

Barbara Marx Hubbard has been a pioneer in positive options for the future of humanity for forty years. Buckminster Fuller has called Barbara "the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced."

Widely regarded as his philosophical heir, Barbara is a social innovator, speaker, author, social innovator, educator and leader in the new worldview of conscious evolution, and is president and executive director of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution.

She has been instrumental in the founding of many future-oriented organizations, including the World Future Society, New Dimensions Radio, Global Family, Women of Vision In Action, The Foundation for the Future, and the Association for Global New Thought. She remains a leader on the growing edge of the women's movement, supporting the emergence of the Evolutionary Woman, the Feminine Cocreator who is calling for the next level of creativity and partnership between women and men to guide our world through our current challenges and opportunities.

A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, with a B.A. cum laude in Political Science, she studied at the Sorbonne and L'Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris. She was awarded the first Doctor of Conscious Evolution degree from Emerson Theological Institute.

Nora N. Simpson is a Vice President at RWD Executive Search, a human capital consulting firm that specializes in senior-level retained executive search assignments. Since arriving at RWD, Nora has successfully launched both the Sustainability/Cleantech and Strategy practices.

Earlier in her career, Nora established and ran a professional coaching and consulting practice, coaching individuals and consulting for a variety of corporations and non-profit organizations on issues ranging from marketing and strategic growth to government and community relations. Nora began her career with the United Nations Millennium Project Hunger Task Force and later served on the New York-based research and policy team of The Hunger Project, a non-profit organization that empowers women and men to end their own hunger and poverty in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.

In 2008, Nora co-founded the Columbia Green Business Initiative, a forum hosted by the Columbia Business School to convene leaders from industry, government, non-profit and academia and empower them to connect corporate profitability to social and environmental sustainability.

Nora graduated Magna Cum Laude from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama and Theater Arts.

Ashok is a Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College (Haverford, PA) where he has taught for the past thirty nine years. He was the first Director of the Margaret Gest Center for Cross-Cultural Study of Religion at Haverford, and has participated in numerous professional conferences on inter-religious dialogue and East-West comparative philosophy.

Ashok's primary concern throughout his career has been to clarify the universal logos or common ground at the heart of human reason and rational life. He is Founder-Director of the Global Dialogue Institute which seeks to embody the dialogical powers of global reason in all aspects of cultural life.

Ashok's book, Meditative Reason: Toward Universal Grammar (Peter Lang, Revisioning Philosophy Series, l993) attempts to open the way to global reason, and a companion volume, Between Worlds: The Emergence of Global Reason (Peter Lang, l997) explores the dialogical common ground between diverse worlds. His forthcoming book, The Awakening of the Global Mind, further develops these themes for the general reader.

Dr. Nina Meyerhof has worked for over 20 years as the Founder and Director of Children of the Earth, an NGO that has been recognized by the United Nations for its outstanding advocacy work on behalf of children all over the world.

Dr. Meyerhof has had over 30 years experience creating and implementing programs for young people, including leadership training, self-esteem building, and other training that brings young people in contact with international issues such as human rights, peace, and environmental protection.

She has helped organize events that get youth directly involved in major international meetings, such as the Children's Earth Summit, the Children's Conference on Human Rights, the United Nations Environment Program Youth Forum, and the Children's World Seminar for Global Consciousness. At GCI, Nina is developing a youth training model based on the principles of the Earth Charter that emphasizes spiritual, ethical, and humanistic perspectives.

Michael Cox is a young organizer and social entrepreneur committed to personal mastery and collective action who was born in Hemet, California in 1982. Michael graduated Cum Laude from UCLA in 2006 with College Honors and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, International Relations. He believes that we are living in a time of unprecedented threats and challenges that first necessitates a shift of vision and values, both individually and collectively, to be combined with collaborative and strategic efforts on all fronts if we are to rise as a human Family and give to our children and our children’s children a viable future.

Michael is currently serving as the Interim Executive Director of the California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC), a statewide organization that has been successful in catalyzing the University of California (UC) to become the leading institution in higher education on sustainability. Recently, he led a successful campaign to gain the UC’s commitment to becoming Climate Neutral ASAP, which he is preparing to leverage throughout California for all public educational institutions. While serving as a student, Michael founded the educational program and UCLA Chapter of the CSSC and organized successful efforts to integrate sustainability into the core mission of both the largest student union in the United States, Associate Students of UCLA (ASUCLA), and UCLA itself, through the issuing of the UCLA Campus Sustainability Charter by the Chancellor in April 2006.

In his position with the CSSC, Michael collaborates nationally as Western Representative of the Energy Action Coalition, which is running a campaign called the Campus Climate Challenge throughout the US and Canada. The campaign has reached over 1,00,000 young people and is currently on over 500 campuses thus far.