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Dimitri holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and currently works as a technologist for Cambridge University Press. During his professional career in IT he has worked for non-for-profit organizations and has been implementing and promoting open source software IT solutions. He believes that open source licensed software is the only trustworthy guarantor for the privacy issues raised by the imminent wide-spread adoption of RFID technology.

Gregory Stephens is fluent in Spanish, and is the father of two biracial, bilingual children. He is committed in word and deed to creating a "more attractive alternative" to the history of racialism, i.e. what Nelson Mandela calls "non-racial democracy." Gregory Stephens defines his political agenda as the creation of more inclusive forms of identity, community, and citizenship in which commonality and difference can co-exist. In addition to a true politics of inclusion, he believes our biggest challenge of the 21st century is survival, both ecological and cultural. In writing, teaching and speaking, Mr. Stephens advocates two core issues: the development of an ethic of inter-generational solidarity and of multi-ethnic kinship. Gregory Stephens talks about coalition building with people who don't look like us, don't think like us, people we in fact may not like, but with whom we do have some shared interests. He is especially interested in initiating dialogue by and about Spanish-speaking people, to show links for instance between the Mexican American struggle for civil rights, and the struggle we tend to think of as 'black.' Mr. Stephens believes that "the contemporary civil rights movement will probably be led by Latinos." Gregory Stephens is the author of On Racial Frontiers: The New Culture of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Bob Marley, in its second printing with Cambridge University Press. Of this book, author Robert S. Levine says, "An impassioned, historically informed, and lyrical meditation on race and its discontents. Stephens' book provocatively challenges the pieties of today's identity politics, providing us with 'integrative ancestors' Douglass, Ellison, and Marley whose examples point to interracial cultures and post-racial futures.

Helen has worked in English language teaching since 1996. She has extensive experience in Europe and the UK as a teacher and as a Director of Studies, and is particularly interested in IELTS and academic English. Helen also works as a freelance Reviewer for Cambridge University Press, and is studying for an MA in Applied Linguistics.

John E. Carroll is a professor of environmental conservation at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of several books, including "International Environmental Diplomacy" (Cambridge University Press, 1988), and "Environmental Diplomacy: An Examination and a Prospective of Canadian-United States Transboundary Environmental Relations" (University of Michigan Press, 1983).

Thought Leadership Meets Business offers significant new insights into the factors that have led to the delivery of high-quality executive education at the top-ranking International Institute for Management Development (IMD). Drawing on the experience and wisdom gained by IMD President Peter Lorange over a distinguished career of more than twenty years, this book offers a powerful model for business school success.

Martin is currently a commissioning life sciences editor for the Cambridge University Press (the oldest printing and publishing house in the world, since 1584). His work involves commissioning new titles and managing their publication from initial research to project development and final publication. Martin travels frequently all over the globe to promote, sell and commission new works. He earned his PhD in neurochemistry from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. When not immersed in academic publishing, Martin enjoys SCUBA diving (PADI Rescue Diver), running, weight training and walking. He has a keen ear for music and likes to dabble in the kitchen. Martin also enjoys fishkeeping and gardening. In 2002 he traveled extensively through southeast Asia including visits to Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and Fiji. Naturally, he did a lot of diving on this trip and enjoyed the underwater realms in Thailand, the Great Barrier Reef, and in the seas around Fiji.