1. Professor of Micronesian Studies, Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam, USA.
   Ed.D. Harvard University; M.A.(History) Harvard University.
   American Historical Association, Pacific History Association, Association of Historians of American Foreign Policy, Guam Symphony Society, Harvard Club of Micronesia, Guam World Affairs Council.
   Awards: The Guam Governor's Humanities Award for excellence in writing (1990 and 1991), the Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr. Memorial Award in Marine Corps History.
2. Not Available.
3. Dr. Ballendorf began his academic career as an instructor at Boston University in 1970. As a foreign service reserve officer, he served the Peace Corps in the Pacific, the Middle East, and in Washington. In 1977 he was named president of the Community College of Micronesia at Pohnpei in the Eastern Caroline Islands. He is at the current position since 1979, and was director of the center for five years. He has been a visiting professor, scholar, and lecturer at universities in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Russia, and the United States. He has been the editor of GLIMPSES MAGAZINE, a regional quarterly published at Guam, and an historical features journalist on radio and television at Guam.
4. He is married to Francesca Remengesau of Palau; they have four children.

Dr. Howard F. Didsbury, Jr.

Dr. Nandini Joshi

1. Managing Trustee, Foundation for Constructive Development, Ahmedabad, India.
   Ph.D.(Economics) Harvard University.
2. Books: Development Without Destruction -- Economics of the Spinning Wheel, 1993; The Challenge of Poverty; Agony and Alternative (in Gujarati), 1993.
3. Dr. Nandini Joshi teaches at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, has been appointed the Director of Birla Institute of Scientific Research, and worked with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research as well as with United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Geneva. She is active in grassroot work in villages and at the moment strongly committed to the implementation of the charkha or spinning wheel at the grassroot level. Countering arguments that the charkha is unviable, and impractical, she believes that the simple implement can be profitable, practical and implementable, and in fact could carry the world into the 21st century; in other words, the charkha can usher in a nonviolent revolution, the consequences of which can accumulate in the form of prosperity, freedom, and peace. She says it is from the poor, simple people that practical lessons in economics can be learnt. Though economics tells you how to make profits, it does not teach you to alleviate unemployment and tackle the root cause of unemployment. (from an article Meet Nandini Joshi, The Times of India, Ahmedabad, Dec. 23, 1992)
4. Prosperity instead of poverty, Harmony instead of chaos, Peace instead of violence.

Dr. Michael LaFontaine

1. Director of the Community Land Trust Project, New Hampshire Community Loan Fund.
   J.D.(Law) Boston University; A.B.(with honors) Boston College.
2. Not Available.
3. The New Hampshire Loan Fund is a regional offshoot of the Institute for Community Economics from which the Community Land Trust model originated. The Fund, entering its tenth year, has developed and preserved over a thousand units of housing and has assisted in the development of almost half of the Land Trusts serving communities in the state of New Hampshire.
   Mr. LaFontaine works closely with eleven Community Land Trusts in New Hampshire, assisting in the growth of new organizations, providing training and technical assistance on the wide range of issues facing maturing organizations, and developing a supportive public and institutional context in which to sustain the Land Trust model. He has recently served on the faculty of the annual conference of Community Land Trusts throughout the United States. He has also served as Counsel to the Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, as Assistant Circuit Executive to the Third (federal) Judicial Circuit,and as law clerk with the Supreme Court of New Hampshire.
4. His wife of fifteen years, Millie, is a physician. They have three boys, ages twelve, ten and six to whom he is devoted. He enjoys swimming, cross-country skiing and carpentry and is an avid reader.

Mr. Kiyoshi Nakabayashi

1. Senior Research Engineer. NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratory.
   M.Sc.(Applied physics) Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1982.
   Member of Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Information Processing Society of Japan, Japanese Society Artificial Intelligence, and IEEE.
2. Papers: An Intelligent Tutoring System on World-Wide Web: Towards an Integrated Learning Environment on a Distributed Hypermedia, ED-MEDIA'95.
3. After working in the field of image processing and character recognition, Mr.Nakabayashi is currently engaged in the research and development of educational system using computer network.
4. He developed CALAT, an intelligent CAI system using WWW and made it publicly available on the Internet this May. He wishes to make some contributions in this field which will survive even if the current Internet boom is over. Recently he participated an international conference held in Austria, enjoying a short trip in Europa with his wife. He likes to make a trip and walk around a town that is new to him.

Dr. Yukihide Okano

1. Director of the Institute for Posts and Telecommunications Policy, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications; Professor, Dept. of Economics, Soka University; Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo.
   Doctorate Degree in Economics, University of Tokyo.
2. Not Available.
3. Dr. Okano's main area of research are economic policy and transportation economics. Specifically, he made important contributions to the development of national infrastructures in the fields of transportation, construction and info-communications. In 1988, as an advisory committee member to the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, he initiated the establishment of the Institute for Posts and Telecommunications Policy, and later in 1993 was appointed as its director.
   Dr. Okano is a very strict person as a scholar. Yet he is very gentle and sincere in his appearance, and gains a wide popularity.

Dr. Belden Paulson

1. Professor of Public Policy, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
   Ph.D. and M.A.(Political Science) University of Chicago.
2. Books: The Searchers, the political story of a village near Rome; Local Political Patterns in Northeast Brazil -- A Community Case Study; A Reporting and Planning Model for Urban Community Development; Futures Reader (460 pages of some of the best writings).
   Papers: Whole System Approach To Sustainable Development, presented at the Global Conf., Shanghai, China, April 14, 1992.
3. During the last 15 years Dr. Paulson has been teaching on various dimensions of Futures Studies. Much of his futures work has related to innovations in education; he's currently completing a small book on Waldorf Education. A dozen years ago his wife and he co-founded the High Wind Association, an ecological village in Wisconsin which has focused on solar buildings, sustainable agriculture, and alternative lifestyles. Each issue of its journal Windwatch (edited by his wife, Lisa), has one or more of his articles on some aspect of life in a sustainable community.
4. (1) Idea of community. From organizing a community 30 years ago with refugees on the island of Sardinia to founding an ecological village where he presently lives, he seems to have found community in some form as a viable model. (2) Innovation in education. While working with the university, consulting with the public schools, applying advanced brain/mind research to learning, offering ``living/learning'' seminars, his ongoing effort has always been to enhance learning through innovation. (3) Global. Having worked in various parts of the world and led seminars to several countries, and loving to travel, he has found it easy to adapt to the emerging global community and the increasingly trans-national world order. Because ``planetary citizens'' is a logical step in humanity's evolution. (4) Implementing sustainability. As the concept of Sustainable Development has become popularized, the next step is to DO IT -- that is, to work out both global and local policies attuned to preserving the planet while we go about our daily lives of earning a living. Happily, he envisaged in this Goshiki Seminar attempting to integrate various of these ideas toward creating global sustainable community.

Prof. Norifumi Saito

1. Associate Professor, Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences.
   B.A. in Mathematics, Kyoto University (1977), in Philosophy, Kyoto University (1979). Ph.D. in Philosophy, Kyoto University (1985).
2. Not Available.
3. After completing his degree, he joined the faculty of the Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences as a lecturer in 1987. Then, he was promoted to the current position in 1994.

Dr. Albert Sasson

1. Director, Bureau of Studies, Programming and Evaluation (including also Division of Statistics).
   Doctor of Natural Sciences (Microbiology), University of Paris, 1967.
2. Books: Feeding Tomorrow's World, Paris, UNESCO/CTA (Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation), 1990.
   Papers: Biotechnologies in Developing Countries: Present and Future. Vol. 1, Regional and National Survey, 1993, Paris, UNESCO, in Future-oriented Studies/Etudes Prospectives, pp.1248; Biotechnology and Natural Products -- Prospects for Commercial Production, Nairobi, Kenya, African Center for Technology Studies (ACTS), pp.97; Production of Useful Biochemicals by Higher-plant Cell Cultures: Biotechnological and Economic Aspects in Biotechnology: Economic and Social Aspects -- Issues for Developing Countries, pp.81-109, Cambridge University Press/UNESCO, 1992.
3. After a career at the Faculty of Science in Rabat (Morocco) from 1954 to 1973 (Dean of the Faculty from 1963 to 1969), Dr. Sasson joined Unesco in 1974. As a member of the Division of Ecological Sciences, he participated in the activities of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere (MAB), notably those concerning arid and semi-arid zones, and prepared major state-of-knowledge reports on tropical forest and grazing land ecosystems of the world ( Tropical Grazing Land Ecosystems, 1979).
   From 1979 to 1985, he participated, within the Bureau of Studies and Programming of the General Directorate of Unesco, in the elaboration of the biennial programmes and the Medium-Term Plan of the Organization in science and technology. From 1985 to 1987, he has been Director of the Central Evaluation Unit of the General Directorate of Unesco. In 1988, he was appointed as Director of the Bureau of Programme Planning within the Office for Planning, Budgeting and Evaluation, and, in August 1990, Director of the Bureau of Studies, Programming and Evaluation.
4. Not Available.

Mr. Masanori Shiba

1. Head Librarian, Kobe University of Foreign Studies. Joint Researcher at the National Folklore Museum.
   B.A. in Journalism, Doshisha University, 1981.
2. Papers: On the Information Network Systems of Kobe City Libraries, Jinbunkagaku-to Jyohoshori (Humanities and Information Processing), No.4, 1994; Thesaurus Structuring for Basic Indexes, Library Newsletter.
3. Mr. Shiba has been working at various libraries in Kobe city, where he is responsible for computerized database management for library routines. He is currently engaged in a joint research at the National Folklore Museum for a basic study of folklore-related database and its access information. Immediately following the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on January 17, 1995, he began sending the devastating images of Kobe City through Internet, and made a special report in March at the annual meeting of Japan Software Association on the subject: How we behaved through Internet at the Great Earthquake.

Dr. Takashi Tahara

1. Director of the Medical Information Center and the Head of the Psychotherapy Department, Hizen National Mental Hospital, Saga Pref., Japan.
   D.Sc. and D.M. Kyushu University.
   Specialist licensee in Emergency Medicine, 1983, in Mental Hygiene, 1988, and in Eastern Medicine, 1990.
2. Not Available.
3. Dr. Tahara joined the faculty of the department of science, Kyushu University in 1972, and later the department of medicine, Kurume University. During those days, his major areas of research were statistical thermodynamics, biophysics and neurophysiology. Then, he further continued his study at the department of medicine, Osaka University. In 1981 he was employed as a primary care doctor at the Tokushukai Hospital. Since 1983, he has been working at the Hizen National Mental Hospital. His current research interests are an exploration of a structure of complex systems in an organism and brain, non-linear dynamics and a creation of new viewpoint on health which unifies care and cure. While treating his patients, he is also engaged in the design, planning and management of information systems at his hospital.

Mr. Hiroaki Tanaka

1. Independent Consultant for Research and Planning: CONFORCAL.
   B.A. in Pharmaseutical Sciences, University of Tokyo (1978). M.A. in Pharmaseutical Sciences (1981).
2. Not Available.
3. After completing his graduate works, he joined the faculty of Phamaseutical Sciences, the University of Tokyo, as a research associate till 1988. Then, he was invited to be a director of Software Product, ACCESS Co. Ltd. till 1995.

Prof. Brian Tokar

1. Associate faculty member, Social Ecology at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.
   M.A.(Biophysics) Harvard University; B.S.(Biology and Physics) MIT.
2. Books: The Green Alternative -- Creating an Ecological Future, Second Edition, R \& E. Miles, California, 1992.
   Papers: After the ``Earth Summit'', Z Magazine, Sept. 1992, pp.8-14; An Environmental Presidency?, Z Magazine, April 1993; Environmental Doublespeak, The Ecologist, July/August 1993.
3. Mr. Tokar was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has lived in Vermont since 1980, where he also works as a consultant to community groups in Vermont on issues of food safety, biotechnology and Green political organizing. He has written and lectured widely on Green politics and ecological movements, with articles appearing in Z Magazine (a political monthly published in Boston, The Ecologist, the Utne Reader, New Age Journal, the New Internationalist, and many others. He has been an activist for twenty years in the peace, anti-nuclear, and environmental movements in the U.S. He is a founding member of the Central Vermont Greens and an elected delegate to the International Working Group of The Greens/Green Party U.S.A.
4. ``It is a long way from the green hills of northern Vermont to Awaji Island, and I am extremely honored to be able to participate in this important new forum for exploring and creating the future. We live in a time when events around the world have a profound impact upon every detail of our lives, even on my modest organic garden overlooking the Winooski River. This presents wonderful opportunities for peace and true understanding across the world's cultures, but too often allows those institutions with the widest global reach to exercise control over people's lives and the Earth's ecosystems. I hope we can envision future in which people live sustainably with the Earth, develop close personal ties to the land, and build lasting community without having to confront to ideas of progress imposed by a global marketplace.''

Prof. Cesar Villanueva

1. Director of Balayan - the Community Development and Volunteer Formation Office of the University of St. La Salle, Philippines.
   A.B. Economics, Ateneo de Manila University ; M.A. Candidate in Extension Administration, Silliman University.
2. Books: Covenant on Philippine Development -- one of the twenty who edited and finalized the Covenant in 1991.
   Papers: People's Initiative at Peace Zone Building in the Philippines, presented at the 11th World Conference of the World Futures Studies Federation, Budapest, Hungary, 1990.
3. Prof. Villanueva is also a faculty member, and teaches a course on community development economics.
   Moreover, he is a chairperson for the Negros Caucus of Development NGOs, a Visayas Committee member for the Philippine-Canada Joint Committee for Human Resource Development (PCJC-HRD), and a national vice-chairperson for the Partnership of Philippine Support Service Agencies (PHILSSA).
4. Area of interest and work are popular education for grassroots communities, peace building with emphasis on non-violent conflict resolution and political settlement to armed conflict, inner and outer ecology, networking for sustainable communities. Main concern of the future is the future of futures studies in Lafrasian Countries especially its relevance to popular movements. His favorite pastimes are nature walking and reading one minute wisdom stories. He is fond of collecting peace pins and stories.

Prof. Zhang Zerong

1. Professor, Director of the Economic Research Institute, Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences.
   The Northwest Finance and Economics College (Economics).
2. Books: Socialist Labor Political Economics, Study on Theory and Practice of Germany's Socialist Market Economy.
   Papers: On Connotation of Socialist Market Economy, Essence of Socialist Market Economy.
3. Not Available.
4. ``I want to discuss with participants these topics: economic institution, the forms of economic activity and the forms of people's living in the future. The most important thing I want to know is the changes of form of production which would be taken place in the 21st century in the developed countries. I like China's folk songs.''