ICIS Board of Directors & Advisors



Dr. CAROL ROSIN
President/Chair of the Board

Dr. Rosin, an award winning educator, author, a leading aerospace executive, a space and missile defense consultant, founder of ISCOS in '83, in consultative status with UN-ECOSOC. now ICIS.


According to Military Space (July '84), "Rosin is regarded to be the original political architect of the move to stop the SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) and ASATs (Anti-satellite weapons)."

Rosin testifies against the weaponization of space and for a world cooperative military, civil and commercial space R&D, applications and exploration program, and for the transformation of the war industry into a space industry without space-based weapons. Rosin is on the Board of United Societies in Space, and is Space Commissioner for the World Government of World Citizens.



Email: rosin@peaceinspace.com

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ALFRED LAMBREMONT WEBRE, JD, MEd
International Director &
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Alfred Webre is an author, Fulbright Scholar and holds degrees from Yale University, Yale Law School (Yale Law School National Scholar), and the University of Texas Counseling Program.He has taught Economics at Yale University (Economics Department) and Civil Liberties at the University of Texas (Government Department), and has been a futurist at Stanford Research Institute.

Webre has been has been a delegate to the UNISPACE Outer Space Conference and NGO representative at the United Nations (Communications Coordination Committee for the UN; UN Second Special Session on Disarmament).

He has been General Counsel to the NYC Environmental Protection Administration, environmental consultant to the Ford Foundation, and Member, Governor's Emergency Taskforce on Earthquake Preparedness, State of California (1980-82). Webre produced and hosted the Instant of Cooperation, the first live radio broadcast between the USA and Soviet Union, broadcast by Gosteleradio and National Public Radio satellite. He works with others to prevent the weaponization of space and transform the war economy into a peaceful, cooperative Space-age society. Alfred has been a Judge on the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal.

Alfred’s book EXOPOLITICS: Politics, Government And Law In The Universe (Universebooks.com) helped found the field of Exopolitics, the new political science of outer space, or the science of relations between our human civilization and other intelligent civilizations in the Universe. His public affairs program EXOPOLITICSRADIO.com is heard in 282 U.S. cities and 92 countries.

Email: alw@peaceinspace.com

ELiahi Priest
ICIS U.K. Director


ELiahi Priest began his professional life as a leading educator in natural medicine with a view to empowering people to greater health and awareness. He went on to being a top representative of Australia’s premiere Stock Market education facilitator.

It was during his work in finance where he gained the fundamental understanding of the need to operate at a global level not only in finance, but within the scope of the military industrial complex.

ELiahi is ‘self taught’, though his methods are no less robust and successful in dealing at the cutting edge in the pursuit to halt the arms race in its tracks.

As the Head of Operations for the Institute for Cooperation in Space’s UK Division, ELiahi works to bring further awareness to the Space Preservation Treaty as the most viable tool in the defence and intelligence communities for sustainability and lasting peace.

“It is my deep commitment to, in the words of Dr. Wernher Von Braun, “transform the military industrial complex into a peaceful space-age society”, and we will not rest until we see it done”.

ELiahi has comprehensive knowledge in a wide spectrum of fields, including; new energy technology, intelligence and strategic planning at a cabinet level, PSI level cosmic security and counter-surveillance techniques and other high level task force operations. His expertise advises heads of sustainability in Britain including some of its most influential scientists, and also world leaders from corporate & financial backgrounds.

As a leading Futurist he is fluent in the language of Exopolitics and has run many successful Government sponsored intelligence campaigns in hostile environments for the furtherance of truth amnesty for a positive human future.

He lives in Scotland where through varied engagement vehicles he assists the delivery of new energy technology and the Space Preservation Treaty to the world table for its deserved investigation and implementation.

Email: icis.uk@gmail.com


 

STEPHEN KAPLAN, M.A.
ICIS New Energy Director

Stephen Kaplan is Vice President and Executive Director of the New Energy Movement (www.newenergymovement.org) He is a New energy research and development specialist. Stephen Kaplan received his M.A. in government from Cornell University in 1965.Mr. Kaplan has served as a legislative aide to Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, working on economic opportunity, housing and energy, and as an associate of the Adlai Stevenson Institute in Chicago.

He has also served on the board of the National Rural Housing Coalition. Mr. Kaplan has worked as director of community development for the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (Burlington, Vermont) and founder-director of the Vermont Housing Investment Fund.

Mr. Kaplan has taught political science, community development and creativity courses at a number of colleges and universities. He also founded Creativity Associates, providing training to corporations, non-profits and individuals. Currently, Mr. Kaplan is raising money and other resources for new energy research and development.


 

DANIEL SHEEHAN, JD
General Counsel


Mr. Sheehan is a graduate of Harvard Law School, former Director of the Christic Institute, and a Professor of World Politics at the University of California.

Mr. Sheehan has a long and distinguished history as public interest counsel in milestone cases.


He has had an illustrious background of defending many of the good causes in our lifetimes: Chief Counsel for the Karen Silkwood and Iran-Contra Scandal Cases, ACLU Attorney at Wounded Knee, Protector of the public safety at Three Mile Island, Founder of the Christic Institute, Chief Counsel at the National Jesuit Social Ministry Office, Legal Counsel for the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers Case and James McCord in the Watergate Case, etc. From 1995 to 2000, he served as director of the Strategic Initiative to identify the new paradigm of the Gorbachev Foundation’s. more >>


 

SIR ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Honorary Board Chair


*2008 Deceased
The Honorable Sir Arthur Clarke's invention of communication satellites in geostationary orbit in 1945 brought him numerous honors: the 1982 Marconi International Fellowship; a gold medal from the Franklin Institute; the Vikram Sarabhai Professorship of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad; the Lindbergh Award and a Fellowship at King's College, London.


Clarke is an award-winning author of more than sixty books with more than 50 million copies in print, including 2001, A Space Odyssey. Sir Arthur Clarke is former Chair of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the International Academy of Astronautics and the Royal Astronomical Society. Clarke was presented the "Award of Knight Bachelor" on May 26, 2000, at a ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he has lived since 1956.

 


ASTRONAUT EDGAR MITCHELL, Sc.D.
Advisory Board Chairman


A scientist, test pilot, naval officer, astronaut, entrepreneur, author and lecturer, Dr. Edgar D. Mitchell was, notably, the astronaut/lunar module pilot on Apollo XIV, spending a record 33 hours and 31 minutes on the lunar surface.


Mitchell received a B.S. in Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University, a B.S. in Aeronautics from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, and a Doctorate of Science Degree in Aeronautics from MIT. In 1973, after retiring from the U.S. Navy and NASA, Dr. Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences and is the co-founder of the Associate of Space Explorers. Both organizations are educational, developed to provide new understanding of the human condition resulting from the epoch of space exploration. Dr. Mitchell has been presented with numerous special honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1970), Navy Distinguished Service Medal (1971), NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1971), NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Superior Achievement Award (1970), and NASA Group Achievement Award (three times).

 

Board of Advisors:


CDR (Chev.) WILL MILLER, USNR-Ret. MEd.
is a decorated Naval officer and Vietnam combat veteran, educator, advisor, and briefer to U.S. Commanders-in-Chief, and other senior Admirals and Generals. He served as a senior Department of Defense (DoD) Command Center Operations Action Officer, a senior Intelligence Analyst, and as a Program Manager for DoD future operations programs. Like few officers before, he was recalled from retirement to continue supporting DoD current operations. CDR Miller was advisor to U.S. Space Command and U.S. Southern Command and its international counterdrug operations, Joint Interagency Task Force East. He is expert in financial analysis, current and future DoD operations, military planning and execution, space warfare, non-lethal & directed energy weapons, joint international interagency operations, nuclear, biological, chemical, natural, and technological disaster mitigation & contingencies, advanced and emerging technologies, and specialized DoD and civilian capabilities. He held a Top Secret (TS) Clearance with Special Compartmented Information (SCI) access. Among his many awards are the Department of Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Achievement Medal with combat valor (V), and the Army Commander's Award for Civilian Service. He is an active member of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Emeritus, the American Society of Military Comptrollers, and is knighted in the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, the oldest military knighthood. He is founder and President of NOVA Engineering and Consulting, providing specialized technology consulting services to the DoD and private clients.


(Deceased 2004) International Director, Bombay, India, Dr. RASHMI MAYUR was the Director, International Institute For Sustainable Future, a non-profit research and educational organization, and President, Global Futures Network, a United Nations affiliated NGO since 1976. He served as Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1992 and the Habitat Summit, Istanbul, 1996. He was the Vice Chairman of the NGO Unispace Conference of the UN in 1982 and a member of the team to build a Space City under Dr. Gerard O'Neil.

He was a board member of Sunsat Energy Council, USA, and Vice President of the Space for Humanity program of the United Societies in Space, Denver, USA. He was the South Programs Coordinator for World Future Society, and the Vice President of the Association of World Citizens, San Francisco, California. He was an educationist and an expert in international development. He is a globalist and a futurist. His arena of work is Asia, Africa and Latin America. He traveled to 84 countries as an advisor to the UN and several governments in the developing world on issues of environment, urban planning, global ecology and technological application to sustainable development. His innate forte was to apply innovative techniques of education to bring socio-economic development.

He was a prolific writer and a featured speaker at innumerable international conferences. He was the inaugural speaker at the Earth Summit N.G.O. Forum. He lectured and taught at several universities around the world including Harvard, MIT, New Jersey City University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Michigan University, Bombay University among others. He wrote nearly 800 articles and 8 books, the latest being Pedagogy of the Earth. He received several major awards - UN Award for Science, Technology and Future, 1992; Space and Humanity Award, United Societies in Space, 2001; Sustainable Development Award, Japanese Planetary Academy, 1999; Outstanding Young Person Award, International Jaycees, 1978, Priyadarshini Sustainable Development Award and many others.


Dr. Noel Brown of the U.N.E.P describes Dr. Mayur as "a man of mission for whom life is mission to build a good earth for everyone." He was an advisor to several UN bodies including UNEP and UNFPA.
His other advisory appointments included: Special Advisor to the United Nations on Information Technologies for developments in the developing countries, from November 2000 to 2004; Advisor, United Nations Sustainable Development Program from 1988 to 2004; Chairman, Think Tank, Telecom Department, Government of India, from 1994 to 2004; Member of the State Committee for Primary Education in Maharashtra from September 1999 to 2004; Advisor, Government of Ghana for development of IT villages from November 2000 to 2004; Member of the Committee on "Bridging the Digital Divide", MIT, from October 2000 to 2004, Advisor, Science, Technology, Environment and Development to 15 countries of the world, including Brazil, Kenya, Ghana, Suriname, Guyana, Japan, the Philippines and India, etc.; Member of Advisory Board and Diplomat consultant in areas of education and environmental studies worldwide for the Academy for Future Science, California; International Director, India, for the Institute for Cooperation in Space; Vice President, Earth Day International, Long Beach California, 1990; World Summit of Sustainable Development Director, 2002.

JOHN MCCONNELL, is a founder of International Earth Day http://www.earthsite.org/. In working to elevate individual and international support for stewardship of Earth, at the 1969 National UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, Mr. McConnell proposed an Earth Day -- to celebrate Earth's life and beauty and to alert earthlings to the need for preserving and renewing the threatened ecological balances upon which all life on Earth depends. John McConnell wrote an Earth Day Proclamation for worldwide use. It incorporated rights and responsibilities of Earth's people in the care of their planet. It was signed by U. N. Secretary General U. Thant, Margaret Mead, John Gardner and other concerned world leaders. The 1979 Earth Charter draft was written by John McConnell, and featured in a large sized illustrated poster, circulated and used by many at the United Nations. Mr. McConnell also wrote the Earth Magna Charta, in which he sought to incorporate the goals and policies needed for "peace, justice and the care of Earth." The Earth Charter is "an authoritative synthesis of values, principles, and aspirations that are widely shared by growing numbers of men and women in all regions of the world. The principles of the Earth Charter reflect extensive international consultations conducted over a period of many years. These principles are also based upon contemporary science, international law, and the insights of philosophy and religion. Successive drafts of the Earth Charter were circulated around the world for comments and debate by nongovernmental organizations, community groups, professional societies, and international experts in many fields.” In 1957 (right after the first Sputnik), Mr. McConnell called for peaceful cooperation in the exploration of Space with a visible "Star of Hope" Satellite. This led Mr. McConnell to form a Star of Hope organization to foster International Cooperation in Space. In pursuit of this goal, Mr. McConnell in 1958 obtained support in Geneva of the President of the Atoms for Peace Conference and other leaders, including Dr. Glen Seaborg of the United States and Professor A. P. Alexandrov of the U.S.S.R.