Speakers featured in Democracy Now! Interviews
September 14, 2007
MICHAEL KLARE
Peace and World Security Studies
Hampshire College
Democracy Now! Interview
Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies, a position he has held since 1985. Before assuming his present post, he served as Director of the Program on Militarism and Disarmament at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. He has written widely on U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, and world security affairs, including such books as: Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum; Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict; and Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws. Michael is also the defense correspondent of The Nation, and a contributing editor of Current History. He has also contributed articles to Arms Control Today, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harper's, International Security, Issues in Science and Technology, and many other journals. He serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association, and the advisory board of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch; he is also a member of the Committee on International Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Michael received his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University in 1963 and 1968, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute in 1976.
DAVID KORTEN
People-Centered Development Forum
"Humanity's Epic Choice"
PowerPoint Presentation
Democracy Now! Interview
Author of When Corporations Rule the World, an international bestseller that helped expose the economic injustice being advanced through free trade agreements, Dr. David Korten has over thirty-five years of experience in preeminent business, academic, and international development institutions as well as in contemporary citizen action organizations. He is founder and president of The People-Centered Development Forum, a global alliance dedicated to the creation of just, inclusive, and sustainable societies through voluntary citizen action, co-founder and board chair of Positive Futures Network, and publisher of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, a quarterly magazine. David earned an MBA and Ph.D. from Stanford University, served as a faculty member at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business, and conducted research at the Harvard Institute for International Development. He served as a Ford Foundation project specialist in Manila and as Asia Regional Advisor on Development Management for the US Agency for International Development. Along with his long-standing commitments and active involvement in organizations engaged in creating a better future, David most recently wrote The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community.
SIMON RETALLACK
Institute for Public Policy Research
Democracy Now! Interview
Simon Retallack is head of the Climate Change Team at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), the UK's leading independent progressive think tank. He specializes in climate change policy and has written about most of the world’s other major environmental problems. He is the co-author of IPPR’s 2007 report Positive Energy: Harnessing People Power to Prevent Climate Change; co-author of IPPR’s 2006 report Trading Up: Reforming the EU Emissions Trading Scheme; and author of IPPR’s 2005 report Setting a Long Term Climate Objective. Previously, Simon was lead researcher for the International Climate Change Taskforce; co-director of the Climate Initiatives Fund; commissioning editor, The Ecologist; managing editor, The Ecologist Special Issues; visiting fellow, the International Forum on Globalization; a member of the Board of Directors of Redefining Progress; and a member of the steering committee of the Climate and Energy Funders Group (USA). Simon studied at the London School of Economics (First Class Honours in Government and History). His other publications include: Cambiare aria al mondo (contributing author); the prize-winning book STOP, (co-author); Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible (contributing author); The Case Against the Global Economy (contributing author); Climate Crisis, Climate Initiatives Fund (author); The Impact of Economic Globalization on the Natural Environment, IFG (co-author).
VANDANA SHIVA
Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
Democracy Now! Interview
Activist and physicist Vandana Shiva is founder and director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi, and an IFG board member. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993, and in 2001 was named among the top five "Most Important People in Asia" by Asiaweek magazine. She is author of more than three hundred papers in leading journals and numerous books, including Monocultures of the Mind: Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and the Third World and Earth Democracy. Vandana is a founding director of IFG.
