Advisory Board

Nancy B. Roof Ph.D., Chairman

Nancy B. Roof, PhD is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the integral global journal Kosmos, nominated for its excellence and spiritual coverage by the prestigious Utne Independent Press Awards. Kosmos brings leading edge ideas to United Nations Ambassadors, the UN Secretariat, NGOs and the international community of global citizens. Its unique mission is to create a sustainable, compassionate and emerging global civilization through individual, cultural, and systems transformation at all levels of body, mind, and spirit. Dr. Roof is Founding President of Kosmos Associates Inc. She has been in consultative status with ECOSOC at the United Nations since 1988 where she has lobbied for global values, lifelong learning and spirituality in major United Nations Conferences that set global standards. She co-founded the Values Caucus at the United Nations in 1994 with the help of Ambassador Somavia of Chile (now Secretary General of ILO) and co-founded the Spiritual Caucus at the UN in 2000 for the purpose of bringing contemplation into UN deliberations. She was a key speaker addressing 184 governments at the World Summit for Social Development in Copenhagen on the importance of values in global policy. She co-designed and was a speaker at the first Ethics Conference at the United Nations with 27 countries as patrons. She is a contributor to Visions for a New Civilization: Spiritual and Ethical Values for the New Millennium with her United Nations and UNESCO Colleagues. She was a key speaker with International Governmental Ministers of Culture at the United Nations World Culture Open Forum on the theme of an integral approach to global affairs and the role of culture in peace.

Kosmos is a founding partner of the worldwide initiative, Creating the New Civilization, launched by the Goi Peace Foundation in Tokyo, November 2005 with the Gorbachev Foundation, Club of Budapest, Club of Rome, Commission on Global Spirituality and Consciousness and World Wisdom Council. She is the first Media Ambassador invited to participate in the World Wisdom Council.

Her testimony to the U.S. Commission on Improving the Effectiveness of the UN was included in the final report sent to the President and Congress. Her testimony emphasized the need for including the human dimension in global policy.

Dr. Roof designed, implemented, and pioneered the first training programs in the former Yugoslavia on secondary traumatic stress in war zones. The program trained trainers of 78 organizations, including the United Nations, Red Cross, Governments, Doctors Without Borders, and local groups in three different locations. The program is now being used as a model in other War Zones. She published a widely distributed workbook for further self-training entitled The Impact of War on Humanitarian Service Providers.

In the early 1970s she co-founded The Mountain School, to teach meditation and interior spiritual practices from a variety of religious traditions. She co-founded an alternative medicine practice where she worked with medical doctors on the mind/body relationship. Dr. Roof founded and developed the first Transpersonal Psychology training programs on the East Coast at Beacon College MA program in 1980. She had a flourishing private practice in individual in-depth psychology based on the psychology she developed combining Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices.

She has designed numerous workshops and been a key speaker at the UN and at many professional international conferences. She is now initiating salons and conversation groups around the themes of Kosmos Journal. She is a member of the President s Club of the Integral Institute (Ken Wilber), a founding member of Integral Sustainability at the Integral Institute, a founding partner of the global initiative on Creating a New Civilization, Vice-President of Lifebridge Foundation, Advisory Board of Ethical Markets (Hazel Henderson), Co-Founder of both the Values Caucus (1994) and the Spiritual Caucus (2000) at the United Nations, author of numerous published articles on spirituality and global affairs and the first Media Ambassador to the World Wisdom Council of the Club of Budapest, Advisory Board of Integral Review, a member of the Wisdom Council of Integrative Spirituality, and a participant in Mikhail Gorbachev's World Political Forum on Building the New Political Architecture.

Michel Bauwens

Michel Bauwens (born 21 March 1958) started his career as information analyst and reference librarian for the United States Information Agency (1983-2000), worked as information manager for British Petroleum (1990-1993) (where he created one of the first virtual information centers and is credited for coining the concept of cybrarian), and is former editor-in-chief of the first European digital convergence magazine, the Dutch language Wave. He created two internet start-ups, the intranet/extranet company E-Com (sold to Alcatel) and the interactive marketing company Kyberco (sold to Tagora holding). He was European Mgr. of Thought Leadership for MarchFIRST, and ebusiness strategy director for Belgacom, Belgium’s leading telco (1999-2002).

With Frank Theys, Bauwens is the co-creator of a 3 hour documentary TechnoCalyps, an examination of the 'metaphysics of technology'. He taught and edited two anthologies on the Anthropology of Digital Society, together with Salvino Salvaggio.

Bauwens is the founder of the Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives, which researchers peer production/governance/property and the open/free, participatory, and commons-oriented modes of human cooperation. He is the author of a number of on-line essays, including a seminal thesis Peer to Peer and Human Evolution and The Political Economy of Peer Production (CTheory). For the P2P Foundation, he functioned as community manager responsible of an ecology of collaboration consisting of: A wiki which reached 7,000 pages which were viewed 6 million times; a blog with a Google PR rank of 7 and 2,000 readers per day; a Ning community forum with daily activity by 300+ members; and several mailing lists.

He has taught courses on the anthropology of digital society to postgraduate students at ICHEC/St. Louis in Brussels, Belgium and now lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he has taught related courses at Payap University and Chiang Mai University. He is a Research Fellow with the Primavera project at the University of Amsterdam and outside expert with the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2008). He is member of advisory boards such as the Union of International Associations, Shareable magazine, and The Hub. He is assisting Richard David Hames with the development of the Asian Foresight Institute.

Don Edward Beck Ph.D.

Don Edward Beck Ph.D. has been designing and implementing transformational practices for almost thirty years in corporate, governmental and community settings worldwide through Spiral Dynamics Integral. His unique values-based model charts the evolution and emergence of human nature - a bio-psycho-social-spiritual map of living human systems that focuses on natural designs and offers whole new integral solutions that are ecological, systemic and life affirming. He is actively engaged in macro-scale geopolitical transformations. Behind the scenes he played a major role in the design of post-apartheid South Africa and is currently guiding new integral thinking in hot spots around the globe. He is the founder of the Institute of Values and Culture and the Spiral Dynamics Group and is a founding associate of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute. He is the co-author of The Crucible Forging South Africa's Future and Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change. He has trained leaders in Spiral Dynamics worldwide. He specializes in the recognition and management of different clashing core value systems based on human emergence.

Barrett C. Brown

Barrett C. Brown, Co-Director
Integral Sustainability Center
Integral University
www.integralinstitute.org
bbrown@integralinstitute.org

Barrett serves as Co-Director of the Integral Sustainability Center at Integral University. Since 1995, he has worked with organizations throughout the Americas in communications, sustainability, and human development. Barrett represents Kosmos Journal and the Integral framework at the United Nations, holding UN consultative status through the Center for Psychology and Social Change. His current consulting focuses on using the Integral framework to customize sustainable development and organizational development initiatives to stakeholders and systems.

In addition to consulting, researching, speaking, and mentoring about Integral Sustainability, Barrett also co-designs and delivers workshops on Integral theory and practice for Integral Institute (I-I). A member of I-I since 2002, he serves as associate editor of AQAL: Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. Barrett has completed advanced trainings and certifications in: measuring ego-development using the Leadership Development Profile; Integral Organizational Leadership; Integral Life Practice; Spiral Dynamics Integral; and ZERI (Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives). In addition to Kosmos, he is also an advisory board member for: the Shift Foundation, which works with high-potential youth; and IntegralCity.com, focusing on urban sustainability issues. He previously served as the International Development Director for The Sustainable Village, supporting renewable energy and appropriate technology projects in developing countries.

Barrett has delivered scores of training seminars and presentations, including speeches at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (side event), the Bioneers Conference, the School for International Training (SIT), and the Spiral Dynamics Integral Conference on Natural Design. He has briefed officials at the US State Department and at United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) headquarters. Barrett is currently a doctoral student in the human and organizational systems program at Fielding Graduate University. His undergraduate work was in English literature and mechanical engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barrett has traveled extensively, lived in Curitiba, Brazil and Cuenca, Ecuador, and speaks Portuguese and Spanish. His home is deep in the green mountains of Vermont.

Christopher Cooke

"Over the next 20 years we [5deep] will contribute to the raised awareness and application of a natural systems based, integrating approach that will enhance 'well-being'. This will demand a whole life perspective. Success will be measured in part by having a viable planet – viable in that we fully and consciously engage the reason for life on this planet - why? Because there is only '1'." Christopher Cooke 2004 – Co-Creator of 'Be the Change' Event in London.

Christopher's Personal Biography:

An international senior manager, consultant, coach, confidante, counselor, trainer and qualified engineer, with over 20 years, experience in pioneering and supporting personal and organizational change. Christopher's curiosity about what is truly possible for individuals, teams, organizations, communities and countries provides him with a passionate capacity to engage the core issues using elegantly simple 'Dynamic Integral' approaches that are aligned with the continued emergence of all life.

With a progressive specialism in 'Integral Practice' (a combination of Spiral Dynamics Integral and Integral Theory & Practice) and his penchant for informed action, Christopher is highly appreciated by clients across a wide range of Public, Private, Profit and Voluntary Sectors. He has become widely recognized for his interest and ability to support innovation in thought, effective decision making, and the development of practical approaches to complex large-scale organizational and societal change. He believes that he is in the business of discovering how to co-create 'learning habitats' in which individuals, organisations, communities, and nations can make better quality decisions.

Through his links with the Spiral Dynamics Group – Texas, Christopher has been able to pioneer leading-edge application in the field of Spiral Dynamics Integral. His participation in large scale initiatives includes a significant advisory role for a global network of Whole System Thinking and Change expertise. Christopher's work in Spiral Dynamics Integral was recognized by being awarded the Clare W Graves award for 'Ethical and Innovative Leadership' – Texas May 2003.

Christopher is an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Institute for Religion and Health - Texas Medical Center – Houston; a member of visiting Faculty at The Graduate Institute /What Is Enlightenment? (a collaborative Master of Arts in Conscious Evolution); on the Advisory Board of Kosmos Magazine.

He holds a Masters Degree in Managing Change awarded through Sheffield Hallam Business School and The Centre for the Study of Change; an HND in Mechanical and Production Engineering, and a BA in Environmental Monitoring and Control through the Open University. Christopher is a Member of the Institute of Water Officers, an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management, Member of Institute of Directors, and a Member of the International NLP Trainers Association.

Richard Falk Ph.D.

Richard Falk Ph.D. formerly Albert G. Millbank Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University for forty years, is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In his illustrious career he has taught on several continents and has served on many Boards of Directors of civil society organizations worldwide. He served on the editorial Board of Foreign Policy Magazine and World Policy Journal among others and served on several international commissions, giving expert testimony on critical international matters in Congress, at the United Nations, and to several governments worldwide. He is published in several current magazines and has written forty-six books, including Human Rights Horizons: The Pursuit of Justice in a Globalizing World; Law, War and Morality in the Contemporary World; Religion and Humane Global Governance; and most recently, the Great Terror War. He also serves as Chair of the Board, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Joseph P. Firmage

Joseph P. Firmage, Chairman and CEO, ManyOne Networks, brings a lifetime of passion for science and more than a decade of business experience to his leadership of ManyOne Networks. Known throughout Silicon Valley and beyond as a visionary at the cusp of 21st century science and technology, he has led companies that pioneered both object-oriented programming tools and the commercial adoption of the World Wide Web. He began his professional career in 1989 as founder and CEO of Serius Corporation, an early pioneer of object-oriented visual programming tools for personal computers. Serius was acquired by Novell in 1993 in a transaction valued at $20 million. From 1993 through 1995, Joseph was Vice President of Strategy for Novell's Network Systems Group. From 1995 through 1998, he was co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of USWeb Corporation, which under his leadership became the world's largest Internet consulting firm, serving half of the Fortune 100. USWeb went public in 1997 with a market capitalization of $3 billion. In 1998, Joseph received Silicon Valley's "Young Entrepreneur of the Year" award from Ernst & Young. From 1998 through 2000, Joseph was Chairman of Intend Change, a venture construction firm that assembled a small number of significant information technology companies including Electron Economy and Invesmart, organizing $250 million in capital. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Cosmos Studios. He is also the founding sponsor of the Integral Institute.

Hazel Henderson

We are deeply honored to welcome an amazing woman to Kosmos Advisory Board. Hazel Henderson s achievements and influence span the globe. Founder, Ethical Markets Media, Dr. Henderson is a world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, and consultant on equitable ecologically sustainable development and socially responsible business and investment. She is the author of Beyond Globalization, co-editor of The UN: Policy and Financing Alternatives and seven other books. Well known for the Calvert-Henderson Quality-of-Life Indicators, she shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Nobel Prize Winner A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina. To learn more about this extraordinary woman visit www.hazelhenderson.com.

Patricia M. Mische Ph.D.

Patricia M. Mische Ph.D. is the Lloyd Professor of Peace Studies and World Law at Antioch College and formerly taught in the Peace Education Program at Teachers College Columbia University. She is also the co-founder and President of Global Education Associates, a network of people in 90 countries working to advance global systems that will assure greater peace, social justice, economic-well-being, ecological integrity, and democratic participation. She has given more than 1000 presentations and workshops on these themes in more than 50 countries around the world. She has also collaborated with United Nations programs, including UNESCO's program on the Contribution of Religions to a Culture of Peace, and UNICEF on its Education for All program in East Africa where she has been helping to develop partnerships for sustainable development involving rural women's groups, nongovernmental organizations, and UN agencies. Dr. Mische's numerous publications include the books: Toward a Global Civilization? The Contribution of Religions (co-edited with Melissa Merkling,); Ecological Security and the United Nations System: Past, Present, Future; Star Wars and the State of our Souls; and (with Gerald Mische) Toward a Human World Order: Beyond the National Security Straitjacket. She has also published more than 100 articles and chapters in periodicals and books on topics related to peace, social justice, economic development, human rights, and ecological security. She has received numerous awards honoring her contributions to peace and global education, and was a recipient of a number of research grants, including from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Simons Foundation.

Gayatri Naraine M.A.

Gayatri Naraine M.A. was born in Guyana and serves as Representative of the Brahma Kumaris at the United Nations and UNICEF in New York. She served as the main liaison person for her organization in a number of major international projects with the United Nations: a) The Million Minutes of Peace b) Visions for a better World c) Sharing Our Values for a Better World. Gayatri has participated in major international conferences hosted by the UN which include: Rio, Brazil; Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Sochi, Russia; Copenhagen, Denmark; Geneva, Switzerland; Beijing, China; Istanbul, Turkey; Durban, South Africa; and Madrid, Spain. She is the writer/compiler of Visions of a Better World published in 5 languages, the resource person for Living Values: A Guidebook, editor of Women of Spirit, and featured in The Fabric of the Future: Women Visionaries Illuminate the Path to Tomorrow. As the international coordinator for Living Values: An Educational Program (LVEP) supported by UNESCO and the Brahma Kumaris, she forms partnerships among educators around the world. As the international coordinator of The Call-of-the-Time Dialogue Series, she co-edits Experiments in Silence. The Dialogue Series take place on all continents, among people of all generations and from many different walks of life and focuses on the spiritual dimension as central to any serious consideration of world transformation.

James O'Dea

James is currently Co- Director of The Social Healing Project funded by the Kalliopeia Foundation. He is a member of the extended faculty of The Institute of Noetic Sciences and its immediate past President. He was Executive Director of The Seva Foundation, an international health and development organization and, for ten years, was the Washington Office Director of Amnesty International. The Social Healing Project, assessing the convergence of societal healing initiatives around the world, is also collaborating with Intersections International in New York to convene frontier multidisciplinary dialogues on this theme. He is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders group and lectures widely on emerging worldviews, and integral approaches to social transformation.

He is committed to dialogue as a practice and is engaged in dialogues at SEED Graduate Institute between native elders, physicists, and thought leaders, between Israeli and Palestinian psychologists and social workers, and contributes to dialogue on systems thinking and government policy making with the DC based Global Systems Initiatives. He has been a part of dialogue initiated with the Obama Administration on systems work and policy making. He and Dr. Judith Thompson co-led a series of international dialogues called Compassion and Social Healing. His book Creative Stress: A Path For Evolving Souls Living Through Personal and Planetary Upheaval (April 2010) is highly praised and featured in Kosmos Journal, Spirituality and Health magazine and dozens of other media outlets. James is also a member of the Board of Directors of The Temple of the Universe in Florida.

Abul Aziz Said Ph.D.

Abdul Aziz Said Ph.D. is currently the Senior Ranking Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service at American University, where he also serves as the founding Director of the Center for Global Peace, the founding Director of International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program, and is the first occupant of the Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace. His latest book Cultural Diversity in Islam is co-edited with Meena Sharify-Funk. He is also the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam, Concepts of International Politics in Global Perspective and Human Rights in World Order. He served on the White House Committee on the Islamic World, has been a consultant to the United Nations Development Program, the US Department of State and the Department of Defense and served on the Arab-Israeli peace dialogues. He is on the board of several international non-governmental organizations dealing with peace, conflict resolution and global education. He has presented research and ideas on global peace to more than 100 international universities and lectured under the auspices of the US State Department in Africa, Middle East, Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Danny Schechter M.A.

Danny Schechter M.A. is the founder and executive editor of MediaChannel. MediaChannel is the home for a global community of 1,067 affiliates that offers global perspectives on the news and is concerned about improving journalism, supporting independent media and defending cultural diversity, communication rights and free expression worldwide. He is also the cofounder and executive producer of Globalvision, Inc., an award-winning media company formed in l987. He has produced numerous TV specials and co-produced "Rights & Wrongs: Human Rights Television" with Charlayne Hunter-Gault and most recently "Globalization and Human Rights" shown nationally on PBS. Mr. Schechter was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University and his work has been honored with Emmy awards, the IRIS award, the George Polk Award, the Major Armstrong Award, and honors from the National Association of Black Journalists. Mr. Schechter was the news director and principal newscaster for WBCN-FM, an on-air reporter for WGBH, and a news program producer and investigative reporter at CNN and ABC. His articles have appeared in Newsday, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, Detroit Free Press, Village Voice, Media Studies Journal, and Z Magazine, among others. His latest book is Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror

Alfredo Sfeir-Younis Ph.D.

Alfredo Sfeir-Younis Ph.D. is Senior Adviser to the Managing Directors Office of the World Bank. He has also served as Special Representative of the World Bank to the United Nations and the World Trade Organization. He was Director of the World Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development, representing the World Bank. Earlier in his career he served as President of the School of Economics at the University of Chile. He publishes articles and lectures internationally on spirituality and global issues. His many areas of expertise include; human rights, economic and sustainable development, macroeconomics and global policy, and poverty eradication. His major interest is in spiritual economics, business and entrepreneurship, human values in economics, finance and sustainable development. He is currently involved in developing a new paradigm based on the non-material and spiritual dimensions of economic and social development. He is particularly interested in developing approaches that include the spiritual dimension of sustainable development, the role that human values play in national and global policy, and the elements that enliven the soul of business. He has received numerous awards including Lifetime Ambassador of Peace, World Healer Award, and Social Corporate Responsibility Award.

Monica Sharma

Monica Sharma , M.D. is the Director, Leadership and Capacity Development, at the United Nations, OHRLLS. She is responsible for whole systems transformation and leadership development worldwide, with a focus on least developed countries. She is pioneering generative and integral approaches leading to transformation on a global scale. She served in UNICEF in several global, regional and country positions that are meeting the needs of children worldwide. From 2000-2005 she served as Director of HIV/AIDS for UNDP, generating over 720 initiatives with measurable results in 40 countries, reaching 4.5million people directly and influencing another 130million. In 2005 she and her team were honoured by UNDP for the best practice area.