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The United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB) serves as a resource for the citizens of the Greater Boston area on the broad agenda of critical global issues addressed by the United Nations and its agencies: peacekeeping, human rights, humanitarian relief, economic development, and education.
A membership organization founded more than 50 years ago, UNA-GB offers educational and public programs for the Greater Boston community, and is a chapter of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA). UNA-GB is a nonpartisan, nonprofit membership organization. Day to day operations are run by a small staff with support by an active Executive Committee consisting of the Officers of the organization, a dedicated Board of Directors, and an Advisory Council.
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Click on name for biographies of board members. Staff and contact emails follow.
STAFF
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Lena Granberg, Executive Director
Julian Phillippi, Global Classrooms Director
Erica Sanger, Program Development
Kathleen O'Donnell, Development and Special Events
INTERNS and VOLUNTEERS
We are thankful to the many interns and volunteers who help make the work of UNA-GB possible.
Spring 2008 Interns:
Alessandra Cappellino -
Global Classrooms MUN
Victoria Carvalho -
Special Events
Matt Cournoyer - Global Classrooms MUN
Frank Pobutkiewicz -
Special Events
Manasi Raveendran - Adopt-A-Minefield
Gabriela Souza -
Global Classrooms MUN
Yuchen Yu-
Global Classrooms Teleconference
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BIOGRAPHIES OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Officers:
Richard Golob, President
Richard Golob is President and Chief Executive Officer of GGA Software Services, a leading offshore outsourcing company that provides scientific software engineering, algorithm development, and data curation services, especially for the life sciences industry. With its headquarters office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and its development center in St. Petersburg, Russia, GGA has focused on bringing together science, mathematics, and software engineering to solve client problems. Previously, Richard was actively involved in the environmental and energy fields, serving as an adviser to government agencies worldwide and to the United Nations Environment Programme, as well as a publisher of respected environmental newsletters. He also served as an adviser to the venture capital firm Charles River Ventures and as chairman of an advisory group at the Harvard School of Public Health. In addition to his role at UNA-GB, he serves as a board member of the U.S.-Russia Chamber of Commerce of New England. Richard is coauthor of The Almanac of Renewable Energy and coeditor of The Almanac of Science and Technology. He graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. degree in biochemical sciences.
Jane E. O’Brien, Vice President
Jane E. O’Brien is Vice President for Investments at Smith Barney in Boston. Before Smith Barney, Jane was the Assistant Vice President of Merrill Lynch (1982-1990), where she specialized in the financial needs of small and medium size corporations and was a member of the Merrill Lynch Executive Club. While she was at Merrill Lynch, Jane also offered her expertise to students at Simmons College as a lecturer for an investment course in the Department of Management from 1983-1987. Jane also has experience working with Affirmative Action programs both at Harvard University as Assistant to the President, and at the University of Massachusetts as Assistant to the Chancellor. Jane serves on the Executive Committee of Jobs for Bay State Graduates, and is a trustee of New England Colleges Fund.
Mark B. Stein, Vice President
Mark B. Stein is a partner in the Corporate Department in McDermott, Will & Emery’s Boston office, where he concentrates his practice in securities, mergers and acquisitions and general representation of start-ups. Mr. Stein speaks regularly on matters of interest to emerging and growth companies, including corporate finance strategies, corporate governance and equity-based incentive compensation. He is a member of the High Technology Section of the Massachusetts Bar Association. Before joining McDermott, Will & Emery, Mr. Stein was deputy executive director and later, executive director (acting) of the Massachusetts Office of International trade and Investment. He has also served as a legislative assistant to a United States senator from New Hampshire and as a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau for Near East and South Asian Affairs and at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. Mr. Stein earned his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in Russian/Soviet studies, from Dartmouth College in 1984. He received his law degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review, in 1992.
William J. Febbo, Treasurer
Will Febbo has worked for three Fortune 500 companies, specializing in business development, merger and acquisition and global technology transfer in Europe, Central Asia and South America. He led the turn-around of a $55 million facility in Brazil and developed an overall merger and acquisition strategy to position the company for a successful IPO. In 1999, Will purchased LMA Consulting with his brother. After securing the management team the company was renamed MedPanel and privately funded for growth. MedPanel provides an advanced, interactive method of communication that combines the connectivity of the Internet and threaded discussion technology to bring medical experts together online to provide rapid analysis and feedback for industry questions. Will recently sold MedPanel to MCF corporation, based in San Francisco and will stay on as CEO of the group called Panel Intelligence and be a member of their Board of Directors(Amex: MEM) Will graduated from Dickinson College with a BA inn International Studies and Spanish. Will joined the Board of UNA-GB in March 2003.
Alma Morrison, Clerk
Alma G. Morrison is Clerk of the Board of Directors of UNA-GB. In addition to her position on the Board of UNA-GB, Alma represents the New England Region of UNA-USA on the Steering Committee of the UNA-USA Council of Chapters and Divisions. She also serves on the Board of South Shore Housing, a non-profit organization that provides affordable housing and related services. For fourteen years she was a Board Member of Common Cause Massachusetts, and advocacy organization working for campaign finance reform and ethics in government. Before her retirement, she worked for the citizens' advocacy organizations Common Cause Massachusetts, as Assistant Director; the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MassPIRG), in the finance department; and in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. She has served on a variety of town committees in Scituate, where she lives, and was elected to two terms on the School Committee. She holds an MBA in Public Management from Boston University, and a BA in History from Oberlin College. In off hours, she enjoys sailing and the outdoors.
Board Members:
Clark C. Abt
Dr. Clark C. Abt:, Founder, past President and Chairman Emeritus of Abt Associates, Inc. He has worked on homeland defenses against nuclear and biological terrorist attacks, and led related studies for the US Dept. of Transportation and the Ford Foundation. In the last two years his research has focused on prevention and control of emerging potentially pandemic diseases. He serves as a Board Member of Economists for Peace and Security, Physicians for Social Responsibility of New England, the Business and Technology Division of Roxbury Community College, and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra. He works half-time as volunteer senior tutor in writing, math and science in a Boston public high school. Dr. Abt has a Ph.D. in Political Science and a B.S. in Engineering from MIT. He has taught at Boston University, Harvard University, the Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Massachusetts. The dozen books that Dr. Abt has written or edited include Serious Games (1970), The Social Audit for Management (1976), A Strategy for Terminating a Nuclear War (1986), and Solar-Powered Economic Growth (1999). His most recent works are the design and operation of five large-scale "Birdfluplex" pandemic preparedness exercises, a paper on "Countering Terrorist Use of Biological and Nuclear Weapons by Civil Means" for the 17th World Congress of Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, a Trip Report of his participation in Kondit Sante medical and public health training mission to Haiti, a book chapter on "How to Help Young Immigrants Succeed,� and a paper on "The Political Economy of Ending Wars, in Iraq and others.�
Valerie C. Epps
Valerie C. Epps is currently on the Faculty of Suffolk University Law School, where she teaches Public International Law, The Laws of War and Immigration Law. She is also the Director of the International Law Concentration. She spent the spring semester 2006 as a Distinguished Fulbright Lectuere at Fudan University Law School in Shanghai, China teaching Human Rights and International Law. Professionally, she has served on numerous boards and committees, including the International Law Section of AALS (Chair), the International Law Association (Vice-President), the American Society of International Law (Co-chair, NE Regional Outreach Network), Amnesty International Legal Support Network (Advisory Committee), The Coalition for a Strong United Nations (Advisory Committee), the Center for International Law and Policy, and the American Bar Association (International Law Section member, Constitutional Law Section member). Her textbook, International Law (2nd edition 2001), has been adopted by over sixty colleges and universities in the US, Europe and Asia, and she has a long list of other academic publications.
Lawrence S. Finkelstein
Larry Finkelstein’s BA (1944), MA (1947) and PhD (1970) are from Columbia University. As a US Department of State staffer (1944-1946), he attended the UN founding conference (San Francisco, 1945) and was loaned to the UN Secretariat for the First Session of the UN General Assembly (London 1946). From 1946-48, he served in the Secretariat, Trusteeship Division. He moved to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1952, became Vice President (1959-1965), and was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (1965-1966). Larry became acting Dean of the Brandeis University Graduate School (1967-1969), then Secretary of the Harvard University Center for International Affairs (1969-1973). He became professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University (1973-1995). Larry has several times been a delegate to the NH Democratic Party State Convention. In 1999 he received the NH Democratic Party Jackson-Jefferson Award. Larry has been Chair of the Board of Editors of International Organization, on the US National Commission for UNESCO, and on the Board of Advisors for the Ralph Bunche Institute on the UN System (CUNY). He serves on the Board of the Coalition for a Strong United Nations. He has published numerous articles and papers on the UN, arms control and other international issues, most recently "The Rule of Law, the United States, and the United Nations: An Ambiguious Record", American Foreign Policy Interests (August 2006).
Kari Heistad
As founder and CEO of Culture Coach International, Kari leads a diverse team of cross cultural specialists who provide consulting and training services in the areas of cross cultural and diversity issues. Diversity has been the hallmark of her work and her experiences have brought her into contact with world leaders, inner-city youth, non-profit organizations and business people. She specializes in making the issues of cross cultural awareness and organizational development engaging and insightful to her clients. Her original programs on cultural and corporate identity have been called "insightful, unique, exciting" and "eye-opening". Her powerful approach makes these issues accessible and the skills gained become powerful tools in the workplace. Kari has lived and worked abroad in Norway, Scotland and Greece and she travels regularly overseas. She is a frequent author and public speaker at regional and international conferences. She was a Fulbright scholar to New Zealand and holds a Masters in International Administration from the School for International Training.
Alan K. Henrikson
Professor Alan K. Henrikson is Director of Diplomatic Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he teaches American diplomatic history, contemporary U.S.-European relations, and the history, theory, and practice of diplomacy. In November 2005 he was Visiting Professor at the European Commission in Brussels and in the Spring of 2003 the Fulbright Visiting Professor of International Relations at the Diplomatische Akademie in Vienna. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He also has served as the Lloyd I. Miller Visiting Professor at the U.S. Department of State, a Visiting Professor at the National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo, and United Nations Development Programme Visiting Professor at the Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. He is a past President (2000-2001) of the United Nations Association of Greater Boston (UNA-GB) and currently is a member of the National Council of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA).
Arthur N. Holcombe
Arthur N. Holcombe is a past President of the United Nations Association of Greater Boston. He is founder and president of the Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund, which finances and implements community-based poverty alleviation projects in Tibet. He served with the UN Development Programme for many years and was Resident Representative of UNDP in China and Coordinator of Operational Activities from 1992-98. He has also served with the UNDP in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Fiji, and the Sudan.
Janice G. Hunt
Janice G. Hunt lives in Needham. She is Secretary of UNA-USA, an Overseer of the Huntington Theatre, serves on several committees of The Trustees of Reservations (past President) and Wellesley College (past President of the Alumnae Association and Trustee) and many other community organizations. She and her husband, Roger B. Hunt, a lawyer in Boston, have four children and seven grandchildren.
Gillian S. Kellogg
Gillian Kellogg is an international consultant, language teacher and culture trainer. Before she began her work as an independent consultant, Gillian worked as a TOEFEL Preparation trainer, a teacher of English as a Second Language, a Cultural trainer, International Marketing trainer, and International Educational Consultant. Gillian has had formal education in the areas of Language teaching, Modern European History, Asian history, culture and art, as well as French, Spanish and Art History. Gillian serves on the Board of the Manchester Community Center and is a member of the Massachusetts Audubon Council. She is on the Board of Directors of UNA-GB, and has been particularly active in the work of the Adopt-A-Minefield campaign.
Robert F. Meagher
Robert Meagher is Professor Emeritus of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Legal Advisor to the India Interest Group, and Consultant on International Economic Law. His experience in international law has led him around the world, first as Legal Officer of the United National Relief and Works Agency in Beirut (which worked in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Gaza and Egypt). From 1961 to 1964 Robert carried out a series of studies on Public International Development Finance in Turkey, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Thailand, India and Senegal for Columbia University Law School. These studies helped form the basis for a jointly authored book, International Financial Aid. He then returned to Columbia University as Associate Director of International Legal Research and Adjunct Professor of International Law. In 1967, Robert joined the faculty of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he worked with the students in the Masters of Arts in Law and Diplomacy Degree.
James F. Morgan
James F. Morgan has achieved success in the US Navy, higher education, management consulting, venture capital investing and as CEO of rapidly growing enterprise software company. He is currently President and CEO of an international non-governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. In 1967, Morgan began his thirty-year career in venture capital at American Research and Development Corporation (ARD). During those thirty years, he helped found and grow over 50 companies, and served as President and Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. In 1996 he left venture capital and joined MatrixOne, Inc. as full time CEO, where he remains a Board Member. He is also on the board of SolometeX, Inc and Opticom Inc. He is a trustee of Harvard Business School Association of Boston and served as treasurer of a Harvard teaching hospital and two independent day schools. Since 1976, Morgan has been active in parent education and family policy, helping to found the Institute for Family Development (IFFD). As president of IFFD, a Madrid-based NGO, he is active throughout the United Nations system on behalf of family policy formation. Morgan joined the Board of UNA-GB in March 2003.
Crocker Snow, Jr.
Director and founder of the Money Matters Institute, Crocker has directed Institute activities since its initial meeting held at the UN’s World Social Summit in Copenhagen in March 1995. He is also currently director of the Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. The first president and editor in chief of World Times and The WorldPaper from 1979-2001, he is a board member of the International Honors Program, the Jefferson Awards for Public Service, the United Nations Association of Greater Boston, the Fundacion para un Nuevo Periodismo in Cartagena, and a member of the Brain trust of the Evian Group of Lausanne, the Editorial Committee of the Development Gateway in Washington and a designated business interlocutor of the UN’s 2002 “Financing for Development” conference.
Cheryl Walsh
Cheryl Walsh has spent more than two decades working in marketing and corporate communications for technology, education, and management consulting firms and she holds both a corporate and an agency perspective on brand management. She has worked for small technology start-ups as well as established technological firms across all global communications disciplines. Cheryl currently works at Allmerica Financial Services in Worcester where she is involved in Web Marketing & Distribution Services. Formerly, her agency career included Brodeur Worldwide where she was a senior vice president the telecommunications practice. Prior to her agency experience, Cheryl managed the international marketing communications efforts of TCP/IP software developer, FTP Software Inc. Previously she has held marketing positions at BBN Systems and Technologies (now Genuity), Arthur D. Little (a global technology management consulting firm) an international training company in the Petroleum industry called IHRDC and the artificial intelligence pioneer LISP Machine Inc. Cheryl began her career in educational public affairs at both the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where she was the Associate Director of Public Affairs and for the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, a specialized MS program for software engineers, where she served as the Director of Communications. Cheryl is also a member of the board of The Good Ideas Fund, a Boston grant organization.
James W. Woodard
James W. Woodard has been a member of the UNA-GB Board of Directors since 2005. He is an Immigration Lawyer with a private practice. In addition to his Juris Doctor from the New England School of Law, Dr. Woodard holds a Doctor of Education in Administration Planning and Social Policy from Harvard University, a Master�s Degree in Law and Diplomacy and a second Master�s Degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Before opening his own practice, Dr. Woodard was an Immigration Specialist in the Congressional office of U.S. Representative John Joseph Moakley for 29 years. Dr. Woodard has taught at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and Roxbury Community College. He was an adjunct professor at Boston College from 1985 to 2006.
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