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Program Advisory Board
Albert Alcouloumbre Jr.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Director of Planning and Social Projects of TV Globo´s Communications Division. Before his current position at Brazil´s leading broadcast network, Alcouloumbre worked as reporter, editor and executive editor for O Globo and Jornal do Brasil newspapers, Abril Publishing Group and CBN Radio Network. He is a member of the Corporate Social Responsibility Council of the Federation of Industries of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Firjan) and a board member of the São Paulo Institute Against Violence. He received his MBA from COPPEAD Graduate School of Business.
Qutubuddin Aziz
Karachi, Pakistan
Former Chair of the National Press Trust of Pakistan and Director of the United Press of Pakistan news service. Aziz also held the post of Minister for Information at the Embassy of Pakistan in London from 1978 to 1986.
Neal A. Baer, MD
Los Angeles, California
Executive Producer and Writer, “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” NBC; Executive Producer and Writer, “ER,” NBC, 1994-2000. Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California, 2001-2005. Recently, Dr. Baer co-established the Institute for Photographic Empowerment at USC’s Annenberg School of Communications, which links photographic story-telling projects around the world and makes that work available to NGOs and policymakers. He has worked in South Africa and Mozambique since 2006, teaching photography to mothers with HIV and to AIDS orphans so that they can tell the world their own stories. He has published numerous articles regarding health and the depiction of health and health care providers on television. Frequent guest speaker/lecturer. Elected Director, Harvard Alumni Association; Member, Board of Directors, American Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on Public Understanding of Science and Technology; Member, Board of Directors, Physicians for Social Responsibility; Member, Board of Directors, Advocates for Youth; Member, Board of Directors, The Partnership for Public Service; Trustee, The Humanitas Prize. B.A., Political Science, magna cum laude, Colorado College; Ed.M., Education, Harvard University, 1979; M.A., Sociology, Harvard University, 1982; M.D., Harvard, Medical School, 1996. Received an honorary degree, Doctor of Laws, from Colorado College in 2000; 2005 commencement speaker.
Albert Bandura, PhD
Stanford, California
David Starr Jordan Professor of Social Sciences in Psychology at Stanford University. Dr. Bandura developed Social Learning Theory, which postulates that people acquire attitudes, values, and styles of behavior through social modeling. This theory emphasizes people’s potential to influence the course their lives take and to change it for the better. He also developed Social Cognitive Theory, which stipulates that people need self-efficacy in order to change behavior. His book, Self Efficacy: The Exercise of Control, provides the principles of how to enable people for personal and social change. He was elected to the presidency of the American Psychological Association and the Western Psychological Association, honorary presidency of the Canadian Psychological Association, and to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of 17 honorary degrees.
Albert Allen Bartlett, Ph.D.
Boulder, Colorado
Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Bartlett is a frequent speaker on the meaning of exponential growth and an author of numerous articles on this subject.
Norman Borlaug, Ph.D.
Mexico City, Mexico
Dr. Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in developing high-yield wheat that led to the Green Revolution in the 1970s. He founded CIMMYT, an agricultural research station in Mexico City. He is a professor with the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Texas A&M University.
Lester R. Brown
Washington, DC
Described as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers” by the Washington Post, Brown is President of Earth Policy Institute, a nonprofit environmental research organization, which he founded in May 2001. Some 30 years ago, he pioneered the concept of environmentally sustainable development. He is widely known as the founder and former President of the Worldwatch Institute. Brown has been awarded over 20 honorary degrees and has authored or co-authored some 50 books (including his most recent, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization), 19 monographs, and countless articles. He is a MacArthur Fellow and the recipient of many prizes and awards. In 1985, the Library of Congress requested his personal papers, noting that his writings and work had “already strongly affected thinking about problems of world population and resources.”
Chester Burger
New York, New York
Retired management consultant and past President of Communications Counselors, a public relations firm. Burger founded the nation’s first communications management consulting firm and was the nation’s first television news reporter (at CBS in 1946). He played a leadership role in the civil rights campaigns. He was awarded the Medal for Outstanding Service to the United States in 1995 by the U.S. Government.
Martha Campbell, PhD
Berkeley, California
Political scientist, lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder and president of Venture Strategies for Health and Development (www.venturestrategies.org). In the 1990s, Dr. Campbell directed the population program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Her research and writing have focused on conflicting perspectives and theories on population growth and fertility decline, the silence on the subject, influence of these currents on policies, and the many barriers to family planning. Her degrees are from Wellesley College and the University of Colorado.
Zoanne Clack, MD, MPH
Los Angeles, California
Writer and supervising producer on the award-winning ABC television hit Grey’s Anatomy. Dr. Clack has been with the show since it began and also acts as a medical advisor, assisting in production of all medical aspects of the show. She has a B.S. in communications from Northwestern, an MD from UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas, and an MPH in behavioral sciences from Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She completed a residency in Emergency Medicine, a fellowship in Injury Prevention, and spent a year at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in International Emergency Medicine developing and expanding the concept and practice of emergency medicine in Tanzania and the South Pacific island of Palau. Dr. Clack continues to work shifts in the emergency department of a small community hospital outside of Los Angeles.
Michael Cody, Ph.D.
Los Angeles, California
Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Dr. Cody is the editor of the Journal of Communication, former editor of the journal, Communication Theory, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Health Communication. He is a specialist in use of entertainment-education strategies worldwide. Dr. Cody is a co-editor of Entertainment-Education Worldwide: History, Research, and Practice (2004) and is co-editor of Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects to appear in 2009.
John Coulter, Ph.D.
Scott Creek, Australia
National Vice-President of Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) (www.population.org.au. Dr. Coulter’s career has been a mix of medical research, environmental activism and lecturing, and politics. In 1987, he was elected as a Democrat Senator for South Australia. He was leader of the party 1990-1993. While in the Senate he introduced the first legislation in the Australian Federal Parliament to control the use of CFCs and the first legislation to protect threatened species. In 1989, he initiated a Senate Inquiry into Climate Change. He has run major conferences on Climate Change, starting with a national conference in Adelaide in 1986, as well as conferences on population and environmental sustainability. Dr. Coulter has been active in the conservation movement for over 50 years. He was a founding member of the Conservation Council of South Australia (1971) and former President (1984), Councillor of the Australian Conservation Foundation 1973-1990 and from 2003 to the present and a former Vice President. He recognised early that population growth was one of the key drivers of environmental deterioration and in 1971 helped form ZPG Australia.
Herman E. Daly, Ph.D.
College Park, Maryland
Professor in the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. Dr. Daly was Senior Economist in the World Bank’s Environment Department from 1988-1994 and prior to that, was Alumni Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University. His books include Steady-State Economics and Beyond Growth.
Deecie McNelly Denison
Fairlee, Vermont
Organizational and education consultant with extensive experience in teaching communication courses at the college level and experience with international and cross-cultural issues.
Anne Howland Ehrlich
Palo Alto, California
Associate Director and Policy Coordinator at Stanford University’s Center for Conservation Biology. Ehrlich has carried out research and co-authored many technical articles in population biology. She also has written extensively on issues of public concern such as population stabilization, environmental protection, and environmental consequences of nuclear war. From 1981 to 2000, she taught a course in environmental policy for Stanford’s Human Biology Program. Since 2000 she has co-taught a freshman seminar course on environmental policy. She has co-authored more than ten books, including The Population Explosion (Simon & Schuster, 1990); Healing the Planet (Addison-Wesley, 1991); The Stork and the Plow (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995); Betrayal of Science and Reason (Island Press, 1996); One with Nineveh (Island Press, 2004); and The Dominant Animal (Island Press, 2008). She served as one of seven outside consultants to the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Global 2000 Report (1980). In 1994-95, she served on a task group for academics and scientists for the President’s Commission on Sustainable Development. She has served on the board of a wide range of organizations and currently serves on the boards of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Environment, Development, and Security (since 1988) and the New-Land Foundation (since 2002).
Paul R. Ehrlich
Palo Alto, California
Bing Professor of Population Studies and President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. Dr. Ehrlich is the recipient of numerous international honors such as the Crafoord Prize in Population Biology and Conservation of Biological Diversity, the MacArthur Prize Fellowship, and the United Nations Environment Programme Sasakawa Environment Prize. He is best known for his ground-breaking book The Population Bomb released in 1968, which gave a dire forecast of impending international famine caused by unrestrained population growth. His most recent book, The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment, deals with human cultural and biological evolution: how those evolutions have impacted the environment and what that means for our future.
Robert Engelman
Washington, DC
Vice President for Programs at the Worldwatch Institute. Engelman is a writer specializing in population and the environment, reproductive health, and climate change. Previously, he was Vice President for Research at Population Action International. A former newspaper reporter, Engelman has served on the faculty of Yale University as a visiting lecturer and was founding secretary of the Society of Environmental Journalists. The Population Institute awarded his book, More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, the 2008 Global Media Award for Individual Reporting on Population. His writing has appeared in scientific journals and news media including Nature, Scientific American, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
Lucy Lee Grimes Evans
New Canaan, Connecticut
Columnist with the Stamford Advocate. Evans is also a district representative for Population Connection and a long-time population stabilization advocate.
Andrew Ferguson
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Research Co-ordinator for the Optimum Population Trust, UK and editor of the biannual OPT Journal.
Lindsey Grant
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A writer and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Population and Environment. His books include Juggernaut: Growth on a Finite Planet; How Many Americans?; Elephants in the Volkswagen; Foresight and National Decisions: The Horseman and the Bureaucrat; Too Many People: The Case for Reversing Growth; The Collapsing Bubble: Growth and Fossil Energy; and The Age of Overshoot.
Hope S. Green
Burlington, Vermont
Consultant to public broadcasting companies and founding board member of the World Radio and Television Council. Green was formerly president of Vermont Public Television and vice chair of the PBS Board. She was a founding Board member of PMC.
Lynn Gutstadt
San Anselmo, California
Media and marketing research professional with extensive experience in strategic research for program development and impact evaluation for traditional and new media. Gutstadt has served in senior research positions at CBS Interactive/CNET Networks, Premier Retail Networks, TechTV, Applied Communications, and CNN, where she was Vice President of Audience Research. She founded and built the Audience Research department for the CNN News Group, overseeing all programming and consumer marketing research for the CNN television networks and Internet sites.
Maisha L. Hazzard, Ph.D.
Los Angeles, California
President of SpiritWorks Communications. Dr. Hazzard is a former Professor of Telecommunications and co-founder of Communication and Development Studies at Ohio University. She has served as special advisor, trainer, strategic communication specialist, and head writer/producer for communication and development projects for governments, media entities, universities, and social service agencies in the Caribbean, Africa, India, and the USA.
Richard Heinberg
Santa Rosa, California
Widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators, having delivered hundreds of lectures on oil depletion to a wide variety of audiences around the world. Heinberg is the award-winning author of eight books including The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies; Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World; The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse; Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines; and Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis. He has authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, European Business Review, Earth Island Journal, Yes! Magazine, and The Sun, as well as on websites such as Alternet.org, EnergyBulletin.net, and Counterpunch.com. His monthly MuseLetter has been included in Utne Reader’s annual list of Best Alternative Newsletters. He has been featured in many film documentaries, including End of Suburbia and Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour.
Marilyn Hempel
Redlands, California
President of Blue Planet United and editor of the Population Press.
Tony Johnston, M.D.
Nairobi, Kenya
Executive Director, Population Communication Africa. Dr. Johnston was formerly the Director of the UNFPA Program for Population Information, Education and Communication Research Training, Eastern and Southern Africa.
Shiv Khare
Bangkok, Thailand
Executive Director of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development. Khare was formerly the Secretary-General of the World Assembly of Youth in Copenhagen and Executive Director of the Youth and Family Planning Program Council of India.
Doug La Follette
Madison, Wisconsin
Secretary of State of Wisconsin, former professor and a long-time activist and speaker on environmental, energy, and population issues.
Richard D. Lamm
Denver, Colorado
Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy at the University of Denver, and a former three-term Governor of Colorado (1975-1987). Lamm joined the faculty of the University of Denver in 1969 and has, except for his years as Governor, been associated with the University ever since In 1992, he was honored by the Denver Post and Historic Denver, Inc. as one of the “Colorado 100” – people who made significant contributions to Colorado and made lasting impressions on the state’s history. He was Chair of the Pew Health Professions Commissions and a public member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. He serves as a member of the Board of the Federation for American Immigration Reform and is a past president of Zero Population Growth. While Governor, Lamm wrote or co-authored six books: A California Conspiracy, with Arnold Grossman; Megatraumas: America in the Year 2000; The Immigration Time Bomb: The Fragmenting of America, with Gary Imhoff; 1988, with Arnie Grossman; Pioneers & Politicians, with Duane A. Smith; and The Angry West, with Michael McCarthy. His latest books are Condition Critical: A New Moral Vision for Health Care, with Robert Blank; Two Wands, One Nation; and The Brave New World of Health Care.
Diane Lee Langston, Esq.
Norfolk, Virginia
Retired Senior Officer at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). During 24 years of service, Langston held responsibilities in numerous areas including law and population, gender issues and human rights. She led interregional programs with U.N. organizations (e.g., FAO, ILO, and UNESCO); drafted population policy strategies, including poverty reduction and globalization; developed partnership initiatives with the civil society; and pursued multilateral fundraising efforts. As Senior Programme Officer of UNFPA’s Africa Division, she co-developed country information, communication and education projects, including the very successful social-content radio soap opera program in Tanzania, Twende na Wakati. Langston is currently assisting UNFPA in its partnership initiative with Rotary International and works as an independent consultant in business for social responsibility, rule of law, and poverty reduction areas.
Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D.
New Haven, Connecticut
Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale University. Dr. Leiserowitz is an expert on American and international public opinion on global warming, including public perception of climate change risks, support and opposition for climate policies, and willingness to make individual behavioral change. His research investigates the psychological, cultural, political, and geographic factors that drive public environmental perception and behavior. He has conducted survey, experimental, and field research at scales ranging from the global to the local, including international studies, the United States, individual states (Alaska and Florida), municipalities (New York City), and with the Inupiaq Eskimo of Northwest Alaska. He also recently conducted the first empirical assessment of worldwide public values, attitudes, and behaviors regarding global sustainability, including environmental protection, economic growth, and human development. He has served as a consultant to the John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University), the United Nations Development Program, the Gallup World Poll, the Global Roundtable on Climate Change at the Earth Institute (Columbia University), and the World Economic Forum.
Vincent Maduka
Lagos, Nigeria
Past Director-General of the Nigerian Television Authority. He now heads his own private sector broadcasting organization in Nigeria.
Daniel C. Maguire
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
President of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics and Professor of Ethics at Marquette University. Maguire was formerly President of the Society of Christian Ethics. He is the author of several books and articles including Sacred Choices: The Right to Contraception and Abortion in Ten World Religions; What Men Owe to Women: Men’s Voices from World Religions co-edited with Harold Coward; Different But Equal: A Moral Assessment of Woman’s Liberation; and Sex and Ethical Methodology.
Edward Maibach, M.P.H., Ph.D.
Fairfax, Virginia
Professor of Communication and Director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. With 25 years of experience as a researcher and practitioner of public health communication and social marketing, Dr. Maibach is now focused exclusively on addressing the threats associated with climate change. Specifically, his research focuses on how to mobilize populations to adopt behaviors and support public policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt to the unavoidable consequences of climate change. He was previously an Associate Director of the National Cancer Institute, Worldwide Director of Social Marketing at Porter Novelli, and Board Chairman for Kidsave International.
Frederick Meyerson, Ph.D.
Providence, Rhode Island
An ecologist and demographer and professor at the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Meyerson’s research and writing focus on population policy and the interactions between human demographic change and the environment, particularly climate change and the loss of biological diversity. He is the author of more than 40 scientific and popular articles and book chapters and was one of the writers of the State of World Population 1999 and State of World Population 2001, the annual report of UNFPA.
Norman Myers, Ph.D.
Oxford, England
Fellow at the 21st Century School and Green College, Oxford University. Dr. Myers is an Adjunct Professor at Duke University, a Visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town, and James Marsh Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont. He has served as an adviser to the United Nations, the World Bank and the White House. He has been awarded the Volvo Environment Prize, the UNEP Environment Prize and the Blue Planet Prize – only the second environmentalist in the world to receive all three leading prizes. These awards have recognized his work on the mass extinction of species, tropical deforestation, environmental threats to security, ‘perverse’ subsidies, environmental refugees, and degradation of future evolution. In the late 1980s he originated the “biodiversity hotspots” thesis; since its inception it has mobilized over $850 million for conservation, the largest sum ever assigned to a single conservation strategy. He has published over 300 professional papers spanning nine disciplines, 300 popular articles and 20 books. In 2007 he was listed by Time Magazine as one of 40 “Heroes of the Environment.”
Richard Ottaway, MP
London, UK
Member of Parliament for Croydon South, UK. Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health.
Chris Palmer
Washington, DC
Distinguished Film Producer in Residence, and Director, Center for Environmental Filmmaking, School of Communication at American University. Palmer was previously President of National Audubon Society Productions (1983-94) and of National Wildlife Productions (1994-2004). He has produced over 300 hours of original programming for prime time television, as well as several IMAX films.
Roger Pereira
Mumbai, India
Head of R&P Management Communications Pvt. Ltd. and producer of Humraahi, a family planning soap opera in India.
David Pimentel, PhD
Ithaca, New York
Professor of Ecology and Agricultural Sciences at Cornell University and a prolific author and speaker about population issues.
Barbara Pyle
Atlanta, Georgia
Documentary maker and environmentalist. As former Vice President for Environment at CNN and Turner Broadcasting, Pyle created Captain Planet and the People Count series on population issues. Her first People Count documentary covered the social-content soap opera produced by Cecile Alvarez in the Philippines and was broadcast worldwide during the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development in 1994.
Kate Randolph
New York, New York
International Programs Director, Graduate School of Business Administration at Fordham University. Formerly, Randolph was Senior Technical Advisor for Business Development at EngenderHealth. She also served as Vice President for International Programs at Population Communications International (PCI), overseeing the development and broadcast of entertainment-education programs worldwide.
Hon. Tom Sawyer
Akron, Ohio
Visiting Scholar at Hiram College and a member of the board of Population Resource Center. As former Congressional Representative from Ohio, he served as the co-chair of the Congressional Population Caucus.
Jerri Lea Shaw
Columbia, Maryland
Founder and president of a consulting firm focused on strengthening health care policy, financing, and service delivery.
O. J. Sikes,
Leonia, New Jersey
Retired Deputy Director of the Latin America and Caribbean Division at the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). Sikes was formerly the Chief of UNFPA’s Education, Communication and Youth Branch. He developed UNESCO’s population education program in the early 1970s and designed innovative approaches to population communication and education with the Carolina Population Center in the 1960s.
Steven W. Sinding, Ph.D.
Manchester, Vermont
Former Director General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in London from 2002 to his retirement in 2006. Dr. Sinding began his career in 1971 at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Following assignments in Washington, Pakistan and the Philippines, he served from 1983 to 1986 as Director of the USAID Office of Population. From 1986 to 1990 he was the Director of USAID’s Mission to Kenya. Following this 20-year career at USAID, Dr. Sinding served for a year as senior population advisor to the World Bank and then moved to the Rockefeller Foundation where from 1991 to 1999 he was Director of the Population Sciences program. From 1999 to 2002 he was Clinical Professor of Public Health at Columbia University. He is now a senior fellow at the Guttmacher Institute, serves on a number of boards, and works as an international consultant. Dr. Sinding received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970.
Arvind Singhal, Ph.D.
El Paso, Texas
Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston Endowed Professor, and Director, Sam Donaldson Center for Communication Studies, Department of Communication, University of Texas at El Paso. Dr. Singhal is a researcher on the effects of entertainment-education programs. He is co-author of Entertainment-Education: A Communication Strategy for Social Change (Routledge, 1999), Combating AIDS: Communication Strategies in Action (Sage, 2003), and co-editor of Entertainment Education: History, Research, and Practice (Routledge, 2004).
Elizabeth Smith
London, UK
Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, a post she has held since 1994. Born in India in 1936 and educated in Edinburgh, from 1987 to 1994 Smith was the Controller (Director) of English Programmes for the BBC World Service. From 1984 to 1987, she was Head of Current Affairs for the World Service, following posts as Deputy Editor, Consumer Programmes, BBC Radio, and as a News and Current Affairs Producer for BBC TV. From 1979 to 1981 she was Senior Assistant, BBC Secretariat, involved in broadcasting policy and Advisory Groups. She was a Chairman of the Voice of the Listener and Viewer Trust 2005-2007 and is a Fellow of the UK’s Radio Academy. She is on the Advisory Committee of the Rory Peck Trust, and is a Trustee of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, and on the Advisory Committee of the Elizabeth R. Broadcasting Fund. She was previously on the Council of the Royal Institute for International Affairs and of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, INTRAC, and a Trustee of the Television Trust for the Environment. She received an OBE in 2004 for services to broadcasting in the Commonwealth. She has an Honours History MA from Edinburgh University and is the author (as Elizabeth Hay) of a biography of Helen Bannerman, “Sambo Sahib,” which is a study of racism in children’s books.
Gloria Steinem
New York, New York
Co-founder of New York Magazine, Ms. Magazine, the Ms. Foundation for Women, the National Women’s Political Caucus, and Voters for Choice. Steinem is an advisor to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund and to Equality Now, the international human rights/women’s rights organization, as well as an author, lecturer, and traveling feminist organizer.
Phillip Thorson
Bethesda, Maryland
Retired Director of Administration of the International Monetary Fund. From 1998 to 2005, Thorson served on PMC’s Board of Directors.
Monique Tilford
Takoma Park, Maryland
Past Deputy Director of the Center for a New American Dream, past Executive Director of Wild Earth, and past Executive Director of Carrying Capacity Network. Tilford is co-author of the updated best-selling book Your Money or Your Life, published by Penguin in 2008.
Peter C. Vesey
Marietta, Georgia
An international broadcasting consultant who works with clients in the developing world. While at CNN, Vesey developed the CNN International networks.
Charles Westoff, PhD
Princeton, New Jersey
Maurice P. During ‘22 Professor of Demographic Studies and Sociology at Princeton University, specializing in population policy and in fertility and family planning research in developing countries. From 1974 to 1992, Dr. Westoff was Director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. He is a specialist in demographic research in Africa.
Paul Winter
Litchfield, Connecticut
Founder and director of the Paul Winter Consort, renowned throughout the world for its concerts in celebration of the earth and its wildlife. Winter has performed “Concerts for the Earth” at the United Nations. He and his ensemble are artists-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York.
Robert J. Wyman, Ph.D.
New Haven, Connecticut
Professor of Biology, Yale University. Dr, Wyman is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies and the Program Director at Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Science Education Program. He teaches Yale’s only course on population issues: Global Problems of Population Growth. He is a member of the Leadership Council, Planned Parenthood of Connecticut (PPC), as well as a former board member of PPC, Connecticut NARAL, Urban League of New Haven, Center for Children’s Environmental Literature, and Horizon Communications. Wyman received an AB from Harvard College and an MS and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Robert Zinser, PhD
Ludwigshafen, Germany
Co-founder and Vice-Chairman of the Rotarian Action Group on Population and Development (RFPD) and past Governor of Rotary International. Dr. Zinser initiated a pilot-project and the succeeding large project, “Child Spacing, Family Health and AIDS Education,” in six states of northern Nigeria. He is an Honorary University Professor for International Management in Germany.
