John D. Shilling, Chair
Rolf Carriere, Vice Chair
Rob Wiles, Treasurer
Hans R. Herren, President
Carlston Boucher
Erling Moxnes
Ndioro Ndiaye
Andrew P. Sundberg
Michaela Walsh

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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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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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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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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Ndioro Ndiaye is former Minister of Social Development, Women, Children, and Family of the Republic of Senegal. She was twice elected Deputy Director General of International Organization for Migration (IOM), a post in which she channelled her energy and skills towards sensitizing and supporting developing countries in their search for a better management of both internal and international migration management. She contributed to enhancing focus on the nexus between Migration and Development and to the mainstreaming of migration into national public policies for poverty reduction, which led to the establishment of IOM’s Migration for Development in Africa program.

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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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Michaela Walsh is a member of the founding committee of Women’s World Banking (WWB) and served as its founding president from 1975 to 1990. In 2000 she founded the Global Student Leadership and Enterprise Management Program at Manhattanville College. Ms. Walsh was the first woman manager of Merrill Lynch International and first woman partner of a NYSE member firm. She serves on the board of several organizations.

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