Charles C. Bingaman is a management consultant to law firms, continuing legal education sponsors, bar associations and other legal organizations and does freelance writing/reporting. He is former president of the World Affairs Council of Central Illinois. Prior to moving to Walpole, New Hampshire in 2002 with his wife Sue, Chuck was Executive Director of Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Hearing Board Chair of the Illinois Supreme Court Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, and a Deputy Prosecutor in the Sheriff Court of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Christopher W. Brown, Guilford, VT. Retired in 1990 from a professional career in investment resaarch and management. Interested in helping to provide a community based forum for exchange of views on current international events.,particularly those involving trade and investment.

Samuel Bunker held positions in the Ford Foundation in both South Asia and the Middle East from 1963-1978. He was responsible for a range of programs including agricultural and natural resource management, development planning, public management, and environmental research. From 1978-1990, Mr. Bunker served as the Administrator of the International Programs Division of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), carrying out projects in rural energy development. He was also actively involved in the Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere (CARE), serving on the Board of Directors from 1979-1999. He is presently serving on the boards of several other organizations, including the Philippine-American Foundation (as President), Aid to Artisans (as Chairman), and World Learning.

Jerry Carbone is the Library Director of the Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro Vermont where he has been employed since 1978. He has been a Board Member for the Windham World Affairs Council of Vermont since 1988, serving as its vice-president in the late-1990s.

Javed Chaudhri, born in Pakistan, Javed attended the unique Lawrence College at Ghora Gali, a school founded in 1860 in the Himalayas His school friends and class mates included a Pakistani Prime Minister, a Chairman of the Pakistani Joint Chiefs, several princes, generals, ministers and senior public officials. He attended Marlboro College 1961 to 1965. Studied at The New School for Social Research, NYC and earned a Masters degree in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  Also attended Ashridge Management College in England. Worked in Canada, the USA and Pakistan as a business executive for various multinationals. Traveled in the Middle East, South Asia, Africa and Europe. Taught business in graduate schools in Pakistan, Anthropology at the Community College of Vermont and Johnson State College, History at Marlboro College and Humanities at Keene State College. He has lectured widely in New England for various programs on current affairs, religions and politics. Javed is also a lay member of the Interfaith clergies in Brattleboro and Greenfield, MA and a founding member of the Brattleboro Interfaith Initiative. Founding member of OGANA, Old Gallians Association of North America. Javed is married to Yasmeen, daughter of a South Asian aviation pioneer, a diplomat and former RAF and Pakistan Air Force officer. She is a teacher in the Vermont school system and previously worked with private and government schools and trained teachers in Pakistan. Their three sons also attended Marlboro College. Clubs: Sind Club, Karachi; Punjab Club, Lahor

Ralph Dell, MD is an Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons (P&S) in New York City. He retired after a 40 year a career in research, science policy, and academic administration. Originally born and raised in Alaska, Dr. Dell was educated at Pomona College and University of Pennsylvania (MD 1961), residency at Harvard’s Boston Children’s Hospital, and became Professor of Pediatrics at P&S in 1978.

Tony Drapelick has worked with international graduate students from more than 30 nations while serving the School for International Training in Brattleboro since 1993, first as Career Director and subsequently as the Chief Student Services Officer.

Milton A. Eaton served the U.S. Government as Energy Attaché in Tokyo and Energy Department Representative for the Far East from 1989-99. Earlier government service included Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service, Director of domestic operations and Director of the New York District Office for the Dept of Commerce. A resident of Windham County since 1967, Mr. Eaton was the Secretary of The Agency of Development and Community Affairs in Montpelier, in 1983-85. Mr. Eaton founded a business brokerage and consulting firm in Brattleboro after an international career with Standard Vacuum Oil Co. and Mobil Corp., residing in Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and London. Travel and responsibility covered developed and developing nations everywhere outside the communist block. He also has served as adjunct faculty at Keene State and has lectured at various schools, international conferences and workshops. Mr. Eaton travels, is currently Chairman of the Windham World Affairs Council, a SCORE volunteer consultant and member of the Vermont Energy Partnership. Mr. Eaton and his wife Sylvia live in Brattleboro, VT.

Charles Fish, born in Rutland, Vermont, ever so many years ago. Moved to Essex Junction at the age of 3 where, in due time, I graduated from high school. Moved on to Northwestern University for a B.A. in English and History, then on to Oxford University for a B.A. in English Language and Literature, and finally to Princeton University for a Ph.D. in English. Taught at Princeton for five years, at Windham College in Putney for eight years, at Western New England College in Springfield, MA, for twelve years, and, as an adjunct in retirement, for three semesters at Boston Collge. Special interest: literature and political thought. Along the way I worked one year for the Vermont Council on the Humanities, twelve years in real estate (appraiser, broker, investor),and served on various not-for-profit boards and committees, including the Vermont Committee of Selection for the Rhodes Scholarships. Have written a few articles and reviews and three books: In Good Hands: The Keeping of a Family Farm (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Blue Ribbons and Burlesque: A Book of Country Fairs (photos and text) (Countryman Press/W.W. Norton), and In the Land of the Wild Onion: Travels Along Vermont's Winooski River (University of Vermont/University Press of New England). Still scribbling and making pictures.

Bill Guenther serves as the Windham County Forester for the Vermont Division of Forestry. Since moving down to southeastern Vermont's "Banana Belt" 22 years ago, he was drawn to the Windham World Affairs Council due to its high caliber programs. He has an insatiable curiosity about the world and how it all works. His interest in world affairs began while he was stationed behind the Iron Curtain, in West Berlin, as a member of the elite Berlin Brigade in the early 1970's. He holds a B.S in Forest Management from the University of Vermont. Bill resides in Newfane and manages his 23 acre Tree Farm up on Bensch Mountain.

Jules N. La Rocque has taught political economy and international development for over forty years. He has held positions in Wisconsin at Lawrence University and the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in the United Kingdom, and in Costa Rica. Currently, he is teaching topical courses in Political Economy in the Cheshire Academy for Life Long Learning at Keene State College.

Allen Vander Meulen –

Thomas M. French has represented clients on each inhabited continent since he began practicing law in Brattleboro in 1966. In late 1989, the U.S. State Department invited Mr. French to serve as a member of a team of lawyers to work cooperatively with the Soviet Union's government to facilitate legal and economic reforms across that region. For nearly ten years, he continued to assist the Russian Federal Government and the regional governments of Volgograd, Bashkortistan, the Jewish Autonomous Republic and the free City of Nahodka, among others, to develop legal and economic structures.

Paul Micou has lived and worked in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Ankara, Teheran and New York City. In New York, he worked with the United Nations Population Fund in charge of its programs in Asia where he traveled extensively for fifteen years. For the past six years, Mr. Micou and his wife, Ann McKinstry, have lived in South Newfane, Vermont.

Meg Mott holds a Ph.D in political science and is a professor of political
theory at Marlboro College. She has published two books and several articles on political culture in Iberia and Latin America. She writes a weekly column for the Brattleboro Reformer from her yurt in Putney, Vermont.

Margo Neale, chair, recently retired from her position as Teacher Leader in the Greenwich Public Schools. Since arriving in Brattleboro, she has continued her involvement education. She has traveled widely and with her family has lived in various environments (London, New York, Santa Fe, and the LaHavre Islands). Her affiliations with several academic institutions and faith communities have supported her life-long interests in history, theology, foreign affairs, and public policy.

Jane Rosser has held positions in domestic and international development and philanthropic instituions for more than thirty years. These includeworking with VISTA in West Virginia, CARE in Bangladesh, Nepal and Thailand, and the Ford Foundation in its South Asia Office in New Delhi. She is currently a Senior Program Advisor at World Education supporting programs in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Mark Schlefer, graduated from Harvard College in 1943 and from Harvard Law School in 1949. Flying officer in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, receiving seven air medals and four Presidential Citations. Partner in the law firm of Fort and Schlefer in Washington, D.C. representing shipping companies, industrial corporations in their maritime and ship financing matters. One of three draftsmen of the original Freedom of Information Act. Member of the American Society of International Law. President and director of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers Alliance. Elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Currently, a resident of Putney, Vermont, and serving on the Putney Committee on Affordable Housing.

Peter Seares –

Melvin F. Shakun is Professor Emeritus at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He is active in consulting and research in group decision and negotiation with a strong international focus. Professor Shakun is editor-in-chief of the journal "Group Decision and Negotiation."

Adam Silver, is Executive Director of Asian Cultural Center of Vermont, Managing Director of C.X. Silver Gallery, Trustee of the Arts Council of Windham County, and Programming Committee member of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. He was a Watson Fellow in India, Nepal and China, has a lifelong interest in cross-cultural communications. In 2008, he oversaw a travelling Brattleboro-based art exhibition into an expanded venue at Bank of Thailand Museum in Chiang Mai and is now working to develop sister-region relationships in the arts and business between Chongqing Province (China) and Vermont.

Thomas Zopf started his career as Director of the Dayton Ohio World Affairs Council. He later joined the Experiment in International Living serving as Middle East and South Asia Representative and as the first Director of the precursor of the School for International Training´s Program in Intercultural Management. He joined CARE in 1968 working in India, Philippines, Tunisia, Congo (Brazzaville), Egypt and New York Headquarters. He was the Founder-Director of Food Aid Management, a consortium of NGOs engaged in food aid. He served as chair of World Hunger Education Service. Tom and his wife, Lou, moved to Dummerston in 2002.

Vincent Brandt, Honoray, served in the 10th Mountain Division between 1943-46 in Colorado and Italy. He earned an A.B. from Harvard College, A.M. from Harvard University, A.M./Ph. D. and a certificate from the Université de Grenoble, France. In the Foreign Service between 1949-1060, he served in France, South Korea, Washington, and Japan. More recently, he has taught at Swarthmore University, Seoul University, Harvard, and the Fletcher School, and has conducted several years of anthropological fieldwork in South Korea and Japan on various aspects of contemporary society.