John D. Shilling, Chair
Katharine C. Esty, Chair Emeritus and Vice Chair
Rob Wiles, Treasurer
Hans R. Herren, President
Anne Murray Allen
Reginald W. Griffith
Humphrey P. Polanen
John D. Sterman
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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Anne Murray Allen, is an independent organizational consultant working with corporations and other entities in the area of increasing overall performance and collaboration across teams, businesses and the community.

Prior to establishing her own consulting practice, Ms. Allen was senior director of Knowledge and Intranet Management worldwide for Hewlett-Packard Company before her retirement in October 2005. Her career at HP included a role as a member of HP’s Strategic Change Office, tasked with accelerating the execution of strategic objectives across the company, and she is credited with leading the cultural integration of Compaq and HP.

During her tenure at HP, Ms. Allen managed the Strategic Planning group for Inkjet Printing Systems, where she led a group of high-powered analysts to create capacity plans and explore long range assumptions based on systems dynamics modeling.

Ms. Allen holds an MBA from the University of Denver’s Executive MBA program and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Manhattanville College. Her interests and current areas of study, research, and publication include networks of collaboration and the application of living systems science within organizations.

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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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Humphrey P. Polanen, is chairman of the board of St. Bernard Software, a publicly listed Internet security company. Mr. Polanen has had a career as an entrepreneur, a global executive for leading technology companies and an international corporate lawyer. Mr. Polanen was founder and Managing Director of Internet Venture Partners, a strategic consulting and venture capital management firm for technology companies. He was President and CEO of Trustworks Systems, a European software company. Between 1995 and 1998 he was General Manager of two operating divisions of Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for executing Sun’s vision of being the global leader in secure networks and systems. Prior to Sun, he was with Tandem Computers (acquired by Compaq/Hewlett-Packard), where he held several executive positions in business and corporate development, creating worldwide distribution channels. As a founder of the Heritage Bank of Commerce in 1994, Mr. Polanen helped to create a new business bank in Silicon Valley from the startup phase to a successful Nasdaq listing in September 1998. Mr. Polanen has been a member of the board of directors and chair of the board’s audit committee for ten years. Mr. Polanen is a graduate of Hamilton College and the Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. He speaks English, Spanish and Dutch.

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John D. Sterman, is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Director of MIT’s System Dynamics Group. He is the author of numerous scholarly and popular articles on the challenges and opportunities facing organizations today, including the book for Modeling Organizational Learning, and the award-winning textbook Business Dynamics. He has presented his work before corporate, financial, and government audiences worldwide.

Dr. Sterman's research focuses on identifying ways to improve managerial decision making in complex systems. He pioneered the development of "management flight simulators" for corporate and economic systems. Corporations and universities around the world now use these flight simulators. His recent research ranges from the dynamics of organizational change and the implementation of sustainable improvement programs to experimental studies assessing public understanding of global climate change.

Dr. Sterman was twice awarded the Jay W. Forrester Prize for the best published work in System Dynamics, won the 2001 Accenture Award for the best paper of the year published in California Management Review (with Nelson Repenning), and was named one of Sloan School's "Outstanding Faculty" by the 2001 Business Week Guide to the Best Business Schools. He was featured on public television's News Hour, National Public Radio's Marketplace, CBC television, Fortune, the Financial Times, Business Week, and many other newspapers and journals for his research and innovative use of interactive simulations in management education and corporate problem solving.

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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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