Vargas, Maureen
Consultant
ICCI Consultora
Costa Rica
Maureen Vegas has been a gender consultant for 13 years. She specialises
in women entrepreneurs, especially in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and has
held leadership and management workshops. She has also undertaken
consultancy on industrial competitiveness in Canada.
She has twenty years' experience as a professor of human resources and
organizational psychology and her published work to date includes The
women in the management sector: history and power.
Velamoor, Sesh
Deputy Director of Programs
Foundation For the Future
USA
Sesh Velamoor is Deputy Director of Programs at the Foundation for the
Future, a trust dedicated to spreading knowledge to further humanity.
Before joining the foundation Mr Velamoor was President at Kistler-Morse
Corporation in Bothell, Washington, a manufacturer of instrumentation.
He has more than 30 years experience in senior management in industrial
corporations. A regular writer and speaker on management and business
issues, he serves on the board of Racon Corporation and is a Foundation
Associate of the Pacific Science Center. He is active in community affairs
and has served as President of the India Association of Western
Washington.
He holds Masters degrees in industrial engineering and business
administration, and has completed several marathons.
Verzola, Roberto
Secretary-General
Philippine Greens
Philippines
Roberto Verzola is Secretary-General of the Philippine Greens, a local
group that advocates principles of ecology, social justice and
self-determination. An electrical engineer by training, he has had several
years' experience in computer hardware and software design. He operates an
email network for local non-governmental organisations.
Vidal, Francis
Chief Executive Officer
Francis Vidal Group
France
Francis Vidal has been Chief Executive Officer of the Francis Vidal Group
since 1978, which focuses on social strategy, mobilisation, communication,
outplacement and outsourcing. In 1994 he founded Telpro, a telemarketing,
Internet and intranet company.
Before entering consultancy he worked set up the French arm of the British
Leyland car company, and between 1970-77 he worked as General Counsel and
Secretary (HR/PR/Logistics) in charge of managing acquired companies for
Swedish firm Sandvik.
He is a Knight of the National Order of Merit, and holds a PMD from
Harvard Business School.
Vidigal, Luis
Deputy Director General for IT,
Tax and Customs
Ministry of Finance
Portugal
Luis Vidigal is Deputy Director General for IT, Tax and Customs at the
Portuguese Ministry of Finance. He is the creator and Executive
Coordinator of INFOCID, a national information infrastructure placing
multimedia kiosks with Internet access all over Portugal.
Mr Vidigal is also a member of the Task Force for Information Society in
Portugal and Professor at the National Institute of Public Administration,
co-ordinating Internet and multimedia training activities. A member of
numerous scientific and technology boards during his career, he has also
published over 20 papers on information management and is a regular
speaker at international conferences.
Virgo, Philip
Secretary General
EURIM
UK
Philip Virgo has been Secretary General of EURIM (the UK Parliamentary
Group on the Politics of the Information Society in an EU Context) since
1994, and is also Strategic Advisor for IMIS, a professional body for
IS/IT managers. He is director of Winsafe Ltd, a project/investment
appraisal, monitoring and audit company.
He has published numerous studies and reports on technology, market and
skills issues.
Waddell, Cynthia D
Disability Rights Compliance Officer
City of San Jose
USA
Cynthia D. Waddell is the Disability Rights Compliance Officer for the
City of San Jose, California, where she has developed accessible web page
design standards.
An internationally known speaker and author, she holds federal, state and
local government appointments in the USA addressing policy, legislation
and compliance with disability rights laws.
Waldner, Jean-Baptiste
Carrefour
France
Welin, Gerd
Swedish National Security Service
Sweden
Westholm, Carl-Johan
President and Chief Executive Officer, Swedish Federation of Trade
Sweden
Carl-Johan Westholm is President and Chief Executive Officer of the
Swedish Federation of Trade. The author of several books, he holds a PhD
in Political Science from the University of Uppsala.
Williams, Dr. Mariama
Gender/trade and development Consultant
Institute for Law and Economics
Jamaica
Dr. Mariama Williams is a Researcher and a Member of the Board of the
Institute for Law and Economics and a member of Women Working for
Transformation (both in Jamaica). She is also the Research Coordinator for
the Women's Strategic Planning Seminar on Gender and Trade, a project of
the Center of Concern and Development Alternative with Women for a New Era
(DAWN-Caribbean).
Dr. Williams has worked as a consultant with a many international and
national non-governmental and governmental organizations including the
Planning Institute of Jamaica and the Commission on the Status of Women,
San Francisco. She also worked for two years on the Economics and Trade
Project of the Network for Women in Development Europe (WIDE) in Brussels.
A member of the International Association of Feminist Economics, Williams
currently resides in Jamaica.
Yalamov, Todor
Research Fellow
Center for the Study of Democracy
Bulgaria
Todor Yalamov is a Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of
Democracy in Bulgaria. Current research projects cover ISP market
development in Bulgaria and corporate governance in transition.
Mr Yalamov is also a content provider group manager at www.online.bg and Assistant
Professor of Management at Sofia University. He holds Masters degrees from
Rotterdam School of Economics and Sofia University.
You, Nicholas
Coordinator
Best Practices & Local Leadership Programme, UNCHS (Habitat)
Kenya
Zucker, William A
Partner
Head of Technology & Litigation
Gadsby & Hannah
USA
"Programmes that seek to serve women, but do not involve women in their
design and management, often fail to achieve their objectives and may even
deepen women's plight".
Dr Janice Brodman, Education Development Center, US
"Are you young, healthy and experienced in using the tools of digital
society? Welcome to the digital economy! Everything will work for you. But
what's happening for those who are not part of the favourite target group
of digital economy? Do they have any chance to become part of the digital
future?"
Elisabeth Slapio of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce, Germany
"The effects on the world economy of a fast-growing, entrepreneurial
knowledge sector that can source its workers anywhere over the internet
would be a more international global marketplace with less cultural
barriers".
Danielle Jones, Ericsson, Sweden
" When I have more virtual choices, I can put my time and energy into
physical meetings and interactions that are really valuable to me: that is
not driving every day to my office: it is taking the car to visit my
parents."
Marcel Bullinga, Author and Adviser on Internet issues to the Dutch
Government
Groupe Bull
68 Route de Versailles
78430 Louveciennes
France
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