John Langmore is Director of the Division for Social Policy and Development in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs in the UN Secretariat. Previously he was a member of the Australian House of Representatives where he chaired several committees on economic policy, trade, social justice and the environment. He also worked for many years in Papua New Guinea. His books include Work For All and Wealth, Poverty and Survival.
Ruben P. Mendez, a former career official of UNDP, is Adjunct Professor and Fellow at New York University and Yale University, where he is writing a history of UNDP. He has written widely on global taxes and related subjects, including International Public Finance: A New Perspective on Global Relations (1992). He prepared materials on "fiscal measures involving automaticity" in official reports adopted by the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, and Secretary-General as far back as 1977.
Robin Round is a policy analyst for the Halifax Initiative, a Canadian NGO coalitions that works on the reform of the international financial institutions. She leads their Tobin Tax Campaign and was instrumental in the public mobilization that led to the Canadian parliamentary motion in support of the Tobin Tax. Her report, Currency Transaction Tax – Option to Adoption" will be released in June.
Ruthanne Cecil is Program Director of the Center for Environmental Economic Development and Project Director of the Tobin Tax Initiative USA. She has a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Her previous experience includes 25 years of community organizing and 10 years of law. She recently participated in a panel at Harvard, where she and two economists video conferenced with James Tobin at Yale.
Peter Wahl is a member of the Board of WEED, a German policy institute based in Bonn, where he works on issues of world trade and international finance. He has written extensively on Third World issues, in particular the political economy of North-South relations. His recent book (together with Brand et. al.) is Global Governance – an Alternative to neo-liberal Globalization? (2000). Just off the press is a policy paper, written with Peter Waldow, entitled "Currency Transaction Tax – a Concept with a Future."
David Roodman is Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute in Washington DC. He is author of The Natural Wealth of Nations: Harnessing the Market for the Environment (1998). In 1998-99 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Vietnam. His most recent publication, a paper just published by Wordwatch, is "Still Waiting for the Jubilee: Pragmatic Solutions for the Third World Debt Crisis."
Gawain Kripke directs Friends of the Earth's economic policy programs focusing on federal tax, budget, and economic incentives. He is coauthor of several reports including: the Earth Budget report, a 200-page comprehensive study of federal environmental spending and Dirty Little Secrets an analysis of federal tax policies that hurt the environment. He has served as a member of the Federal Facilities Dialogue Committee on Environmental Policy.
J. Andrew Hoerner is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for a Sustainable Economy where his work focuses on the use of tax and market-based instruments to harmonize economic and environmental objectives. He has been Director of Tax Policy at the Center for Global Change at the University of Maryland College Park, and editor of Natural Resources Tax Review.
Katarina Wahlberg is an intern at Global Policy Forum with responsibilities in global social and economic policy and global tax questions. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Stockholm and additionally has studied at the Collegium Palatinum in Heidelberg and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain.
Gemma Adaba is the United Nations representative of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. She has worked for the ICFTU in various capacities and most recently served as Director of the ICFTU/ITS Washington Office where she worked on the Bretton Woods Institutions. Her trade union work began in the Trinidad and Tobago Teachers' Association.
Fernando Carvalho has worked for the past twenty years as a consultant to IBASE, a development policy institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also Professor of Economics at the Federal Univesity of Rio de Janeiro. He has written a number of papers and books on international financial policy.
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