Mr. Sam Beard

President
Jefferson Awards for Public Service (USA)

http://www.jeffersonawards.org/
http://www.sambeard.org/resume

Sam Beard has dedicated his working life to public service. He initiated and chaired programs for each of the last seven Presidents of the United States: Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush.

In 1969, Mr. Beard founded the National Development Council, a national non-profit organization dedicated to redeveloping urban and rural low-income communities. He continues to serve as its chair.

Mr. John M. Bridgeland

President & Chief Executive Officer
Civic Enterprises, LLC

John M. Bridgeland is President and CEO of Civic Enterprises, a public policy firm in Washington, DC, and vice-Chair of Malaria No More, a non-profit launched at the White House Summit on Malaria that is creating a grassroots global movement to engage the private and non-profit sectors in helping to end malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.
Bridgeland is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Dr. Noel Brown

President,
Friends of the United Nations

http://www.fotun.org/?p=message

Dr. Noel Brown is President of Friends of the United Nations. Previously, he served as Director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), North American Regional Office. Dr. Brown also serves as Chairman of the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism and the Rene Dubos Center for Human Environments.

Tan Sri Datin Paduka Sri Hajah Zaleha Ismail 

Chair, National Population &
Family Development Board, Malaysia

Tan Sri has served Malaysia as Deputy Minister of Transport (1987 ? 1995), Minister of National Unity and Social Development (1995 ? 1999), Member of Parliament, President of ASEAN Confederation of Women’s Organizations, and President of National Council of Women’s Organizations.

Dr. Douglas M. Johnston

President
International Center for Religion & Diplomacy

http://www.icrd.org/

Douglas M. Johnston is president and founder of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy. Prior to his current position, Dr. Johnston served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he directed the CSIS project on Religion and Conflict Resolution. In that capacity, he was principal author and editor of Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft (Oxford University Press, 1994), a path-breaking work now going into its tenth printing and second foreign language translation. He also authored Foreign Policy into the 21st Century: The U.S. Leadership Challenge (CSIS, 1996).

Lord Tarsem Singh King

Member, House of Lords,
United Kingdom

Lord Tarsem King is a British politician in the Labour Party. King served as Councillor of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council from 1979 to 2007 and was deputy mayor from 1982 to 1983.

He was named a life peer in 1999 as Baron King of West Bromwich, of West Bromwich in the County of West Midlands. From 1999 to 2003 he belonged to the committee Member Hybrid Instruments. Since 2006 he is Treasurer of the India Group.

Mr. Kevin Quigley

President
National Peace Corps Association

Kevin F. F. Quigley is president of the National Peace Corps Association, a national membership organization for individuals influenced by the Peace Corps experience. Its mission is to foster peace through service, education, and advocacy. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand.
Quigley's interest is in how non-governmental organizations work together with governments and corporations to address pressing social needs. He has held senior positions in civil society and government. These include:

Mr. Felino “Jun” A. Palafox, Jr.

Principal Architect and Urban Planner

Founder and Managing Partner, Palafox Associates
Architect Palafox led and managed his firm Palafox Associates for the past 19 years in carrying out architectural and planning projects in 32 countries and in being the only Filipino and Southeast Asian architectural firm to make it in the rankings of the world’s Top 200 Architectural Firms complied by the London-based World Architecture magazine. Palafox Associates ranked 94th in 2006.

Dr. Markandey Rai

Coordinator, Global Parliamentarians
UN Human Settlements Programme

www.unhabitat.org/

H.E. Anton Rop

Prime Minister (2002-2004)
Slovenia

Anton Rop graduated from the University of Ljubljana in 1984 and in 1991 obtained a Master's degree in economics.

He was Assistant Director of the Slovenian Institute for Macroeconomic Analysis and Development from 1985 to 1992, and advised the government on privatization policies. He has written numerous articles about investment, markets, and housing issues.

Mr. Steven C. Rosenthal

Executive Director
Cross Cultural Solutions, USA

www.crossculturalsolutions.org

Steve founded Cross-Cultural Solutions in 1995, which places over 4,000 volunteers each year in international volunteer programs. It connects volunteers with sustainable community initiatives, bringing people together to work side-by-side while sharing perspectives and fostering understanding. He has worked with at-risk youth in the United States and been a consultant for numerous international volunteering organizations in the U.S. and abroad.

Hon. Lilian Samaniego

Senator, Chamber of Senators
Republic of Paraguay

Lilian Samaniego was born February 25, 1965. She earned her Doctor in Biochemistry from the National University of Asuncion. She joined the Colorado Party in1982, the largest political party in Paraguay, and is currently the party's president as well as president of the Central Commission of Women of the Colorado Party. She is serving her second term as senator national, for the period 2008 to 2012. Lilian Samaniego is a proud Ambassador for Peace and Co-chair of the Global Peace Festival Paraguay.

Dr. Robert A. Schuller

Televangelist and Writer

Robert Anthony Schuller is an American televangelist and author, formerly minister on the Hour of Power weekly television program that is broadcast from the Crystal Cathedral, a church founded by his father Robert H. Schuller in 1955 in Orange County, California. With over 25 million viewers worldwide, the Hour of Power is the fourth longest-running Sunday series in the United States. He is the best-selling author of Possibility Living and Walking in Your Own Shoes. where he was named senior pastor in 2006.

Hon. Jose de Venecia, Jr.

Congressman, House of Representatives
Republic of the Philippines

http://www.josedeveneciajr.com/index-ie.php

Hon. Jose de Venecia, Jr. served as Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines serving from 1992 to 1998 and from 2001 to 2008. Towards the end of his second term as Speaker, initiatives of President Ramos and Speaker de Venecia in the areas of legislated tax reform, oil deregulation, financial reforms, and a balanced budget prepared the ground for the historic Philippine exit from the International Monetary Fund after some 37 years of stringent controls.

H.E. Abdurrahman Wahid

President (1999-2001)
Republic of Indonesia

Abdurrahman Wahid served as the President of the Republic of Indonesia (1999-2001). He is the Founder of Ciganjur Islamic Boarding School, and serves as the Chairman of the Nahdlatul Ulama Muslims organization (1984-present). Mr. Wahid also assumed chairmanship of organizations and projects such as the World Conference on Religion and Peace (1994) and Democracy Forum (1980).

H.E. Amb. Makarim Wibisono

Former Ambassador, Permanent
Representative of Indonesia to the U.N.

Makarim Wibisono is the former Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the United Nations. He served concurrently as Indonesia's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary accredited to Guatemala, Nicaragua, Jamaica and the Bahamas. Amb. Wibisono worked for Indonesia's Department of Foreign Affairs since 1972 and for its Permanent Mission to the UN beginning in 1991, serving as Indonesia's Permanent Representative since 1997.