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Program Advisory Board
Albert Alcouloumbre
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Journalist, with an MBA degree from COPPEAD, is the Director of Planning and Social Projects of TV Globo´s Communications Division. Before his current position at Brazil´s leading broadcast network, he worked as reporter, editor and executive editor for O Globo and Jornal do Brasil newspapers, Abril Publishing Group and CBN Radio Network. He is also 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.
Qutabuddin Aziz
Karachi, Pakistan
Former Chair of the National Press Trust of Pakistan and Director of the United Press of Pakistan news service. He also held the post of Minister for Information at the Embassy of Pakistan in London from 1978 to 1986.
Albert Bandura, Ph.D.
Stanford, California
Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. He developed the theory of social learning, which postulates that people acquire attitudes, values and styles of behavior through social modeling. He often testifies before Congress on the effects of television programming on the behavior of viewers.
Albert Allen Bartlett, Ph.D.
Boulder, Colorado
Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He 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
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, D.C.
Described as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers” by the Washington Post. Lester Brown is President of Earth Policy Institute, a non-profit environmental research organization based in Washington, D.C., 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 coauthored 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 public relations executive. Past President of Communications Counselors, a public relations firm. He 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 campaign in the US. Awarded the Medal for Outstanding Service to the United States in 1995 by the U.S. Government.
Michael Cody, Ph.D.
Los Angeles, California
Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication. He is the editor of the Journal of Communication, former editor of Communication Theoryand serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Health Communication. He is a specialist in use of entertainment-education strategies worldwide. He is a co-editor of Entertainment-Education Worldwide: History, Research, and Practice (2004), and is co-editing a book on Serious Games for Routledge Press, focusing on games that educate.
Herman E. Daly, Ph.D.
College Park , Maryland
Professor in the University of Maryland ’s School of Public Policy. From 1988-94 he was Senior Economist in the World Bank’s Environment Department 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
An organizational and education consultant with extensive experience in teaching communication courses at the college level and experience with international and cross-cultural issues.
Lucy Lee Grimes Evans
New Canaan, Connecticut
A columnist with the Stamford Advocate. She is also a district representative for Population Connection and a long time population stabilization advocate.
Andrew Ferguson
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Research co-coordinator for the Optimum Population Trust, UK and editor of the biannual Optimum Population Trust (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 and Too Many People: The Case for Reversing Growth.
Hope S. Green
Burlington, Vermont
Consultant to public broadcasting companies, founding Board member of the World Radio and Television Council, former president of Vermont Public Television, and Vice Chair of the PBS Board. She was a founding Board member of PMC.
Lynn Gutstadt
California
Vice President for Marketing Research, Premier Retail Networks. Former Vice President of Audience Research for the CNN News Group. She founded and built the department, overseeing all programming and consumer marketing research for the CNN television networks and Internet sites.
Maisha L. Hazzard, Ph.D.
Los Angeles, California
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. She is currently the President of SpiritWorks Communications.
Marilyn Hempel
Redlands, California
President of the Blue Planet United and editor of the Population Press.
Tony Johnston, M.D.
Nairobi, Kenya
Executive Director, Population Communication Africa. He was formerly the Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Program for Population IEC, Research and Training for Eastern and Southern Africa.
Shiv Khare
Bangkok, Thailand
Executive Director of the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development. He 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 and a long-time activist and speaker on population issues.
Richard D. Lamm
Denver, Colorado
Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies and a professor at the University of Denver. He is a member of the Board of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Formerly, he served three terms as governor of Colorado, and is a past president of Zero Population Growth.
Diane Lee Langston, Esq.
Norfolk, Virginia
Retired Senior Officer at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). During 24 years of service, held responsibilities in numerous areas including law and population; gender issues and human rights; interregional programs with U.N. organizations (e.g., FAO, ILO and UNESCO); population policy strategies, including poverty reduction and globalization; partnership initiatives with civil society; and multilateral fundraising efforts. In UNFPA’s Africa Division, as Senior Program Officer, co-developed country information, education and communication (IEC) projects, including a social-content radio soap opera project in Tanzania. Currently assisting UNFPA in its partnership initiative with Rotary International. Independent consultant in business for social responsibility, rule of law, and poverty reduction areas.
Vincent Maduka
Lagos, Nigeria
Past Director-General of the Nigerian Television Authority. He now heads his own private sector broadcasting organization.
Daniel C. Maguire
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
President of the Religious Consultation on Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics. Professor of Ethics at Marquette University. Formerly President of the Society of Christian Ethics. 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.
Frederick Meyerson, Ph.D.
Washington, DC
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 40+ scientific and popular articles and book chapters; and he was one of the writers of the State of World Population 1999 and State of World Population 2001, the annual report of the UNFPA.
Norman Myers, Ph.D.
Oxford, England
A fellow at the 21st Century School and Green College, Oxford University. He 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. Myers 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 e.g. 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 when 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.” Myers’ expertise in both natural and social science has enabled him to contribute responses to a broad range of environmental issues.
Chris Palmer
Washington, DC
Distinguished Film Producer in Residence, and Director, Center for Environmental Filmmaking, School of Communication, American University. Previously President of National Audobon 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, an Indian family planning soap opera.
David Pimentel, Ph.D.
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 filmmaker and environmentalist. As former Vice President for Environment at CNN and Turner Broadcasting, she created Captain Planet and the People Count series on population issues. The first People Count documentary included a story on the social-content serial drama produced by Cecile Alvarez in The Philippines and was broadcast worldwide at the time of the Cairo 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, she was Senior Technical Advisor, Business Development, EngenderHealth. She previously served as Vice President for International Programs at Population Communications International (PCI), where she was responsible for the development and broadcast of entertainment-education programs globally.
Hon. Tom Sawyer
Akron, Ohio
Visiting Scholar at Hiram College and a member of the Board of Directors at 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, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). He 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.
Arvind Singhal, Ph.D.
Athens, Ohio
Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston Endowed Professor, and Senior Research Fellow, Sam Donaldson Center for Communication Studies, the University of Texas at El Paso. Co-author of Entertainment-Education: A Communication Strategy for Social Change and Combating AIDS: Communication Strategies in Action, and co-editor of Entertainment Education: History, Research, and Practice.
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. She 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, he served on PMC’s Board of Directors.
Monique Tilford
Takoma Park, Maryland
Deputy Director of the Center for a New American Dream. Past Executive Director of Wild Earth in Vermont, and Carrying Capacity Network in Washington, D.C.
Peter C. Vesey
Marietta, Georgia
An international broadcasting consultant who works with clients in the developing world. Previously at CNN, he developed the CNN International networks.
Charles Westoff, Ph.D.
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, he was Director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. 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. 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. He 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: PPC Connecticut NARAL, Urban League of New Haven, Center for Children’s Environmental Literature, and Horizon Communications. He received an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Robert Zinser, Ph.D.
Ludwigshafen, Germany
Co-founder and Vice-Chairman of the Rotarian Action Group Population & Development (RFPD). Past Governor of Rotary International. Initiated a pilot-project and the succeeding large project “Child Spacing, Family Health and AIDS Education” in six states of northern Nigeria. Member of the Board of Directors of Population 2005. Honorary University Professor for International Management.
