John D. Shilling, Chair
Katharine C. Esty, Chair Emeritus and Vice Chair
Rob Wiles, Treasurer
Hans R. Herren, President
Carlston Boucher
Rolf Carriere
Reginald W. Griffith
Erling Moxnes
Andrew P. Sundberg

John D. Shilling, Chair, is retired from the World Bank, where for nearly 30 years he held a number of senior positions. He headed the Bank’s efforts in sustainable development, laid basis for a new Environment Strategy and a World Development Report on sustainable development. He worked extensively in economic analysis and policy assessments in macroeconomics, environmental sustainability, capital flows and financial markets, and risk assessment, especially in North Africa and Asia. More recently, Dr. Shilling consults with NGOs, including WWF and CI, the World Bank, the UN, and others on environmental economic issues.  He has served on the Boards of the Kenan-Flagler Business School Sustainable Enterprise Program (UNC) and The Mountain Institute,  He is currently on the Boards of the Center for Resilience at OSU and the Piedmont Community Foundation. Dr. Shilling holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and an A.B. in Philosophy and Economics from Stanford University.

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Katharine Esty, Chair Emeritus and Vice Chair, an organizational psychologist by training was the founder of Ibis Consulting Group, Inc. an organizational development and diversity consulting firm. Her expertise is in large systems change, culture change initiatives, diversity and the future search methodology.

Dr. Esty’s publications include, “How Effective Managers Make Things Happen,” “Dealing with Downsizing,” “Issues for Women Managers, Group Methods for Transformation,” and “Changing Corporate Culture to Support Work and Family.” She co-authored the book, Workplace Diversity: A Manager’s Guide to Solving Problems and Turning Diversity into a Competitive Advantage.

Dr. Esty received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Boston University and her Bachelor of Arts from Smith College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is a 15-year member of NTL Institute and served as Chair of the Board of the Millennium Institute and the Williston Northampton School.

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Rob Wiles, Treasurer, has over thirty years experience in international development and humanitarian assistance, both at an operational and policy levels. He served in various capacities with the Canadian Agency for International Development (CIDA), most recently as its senior organizational development adviser. In 2003, Mr. Wiles was Recipient of the President’s ‘Award of Excellence 2003,’ an award presented to employees for exceptional contribution to CIDA’s mandate.

Mr. Wiles received his education from Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA, where he was awarded Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in Philosophy/Science; and from Harvard University, where he was award a Master of Arts in Public Administration.

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Carlson Boucher has several decades of experience in the international development field with the United Nations and World Bank. He served in numerous capacities, including Barbados’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and Director of the World Bank . He holds an M.A. in Development Economics degree from University of Sussex, and is a recipient of the Companion of Honor of Barbados national award.

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Rolf Carriere spent over three decades at the United Nations working on various development issues. He served as UNICEF Representative in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Myanmar, and most recently, Executive Director of Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). Now retired, Mr. Carriere is still passionate about development and works on issues of global governance, nonviolence and civilian peacekeeping and their interface with spirituality.

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Reginald W. Griffith, a city planner and community development consultant, is involved in projects in several African countries. He is the former executive director of the National Capital Planning Commission, a position he was appointed to in 1979, and remained in until 2000 when he became a senior policy advisor to USAID in South Africa. Mr. Griffith also served as a commissioner and vice chairman of the Commission from 1975-1979. He previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Planning Association Foundation, the Design Advisory Panel for the City of Baltimore, Maryland, the Washing, D.C. Commission of the Arts & Humanities, and the Corporation for the D.C. Agenda. As a professor of planning at Howard University for nine years, Mr. Griffith served as the Department’s Chair for the last three of those years; and from 1980-1983, he was a senior partner with the architectural and planning firm, Communitas in Boston, Massachusetts. He found Reg Griffith Associates, a firm practicing city planning, community development and architecture. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree and a Masters in City Planning from M.I.T. In 1961/62, was a Traveling Fellow to Africa with the Institute of International Education, and was later an M.I.T. Visiting Scholar (1989-91).

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Erling Moxnes is a Professor of System Dynamics at University of Bergen, where he also teaches several courses in System Dynamics. He holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College, and in 2000, won the Jay Forrester Award for the best contribution to the field of System Dynamics for the period 1995 – 2000.

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Andrew P. Sundberg is the managing director of Consultex S.A, a Geneva-based international consulting firm he founded in 1972. Mr. Sundberg began his career in the U.S. Navy, before starting a career as an engineering and economic consultant at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Geneva Over the last thirty years, he carried out assignments in transportation, telecommunications, raw materials, food, metal products, publishing, among other areas. He was a consultant to the International Labor Organization, the United Nations Center for Science and Technology for Development, the United Nations Department on Transnational Corporations and Management Development, the West German Ministry of Foreign Aid, and USAID.

Mr. Sundberg holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy, and a Bachelor and Master of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

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