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Andre Nollkaemper is Professor of Public International Law and Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law at the faculty of Law of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Previous academic positions include Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Visiting Scholar at the School of Law, University of Washington, Seattle and Research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) / Institute of Public International Law, University of Utrecht. Prof. Nollkaemper also lectures widely at foreign universities. He is member of the Advisory Commission on Public International Law of the Netherlands; the Standing Committee of Experts in International Refugee and Criminal Law; and counsel at Bohler, Franken Koppen Wijngaarden advocaten in Amsterdam. Editorial positions include Editor in Chief of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law; member of the Editorial Board of Legal Issues of Economic Integration; and the Paperbacks on International and European Law (Kluwer Law). His practical experience includes cases before the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, courts of the Netherlands and consultancy for a variety of international and national organisations. Prof. Nollkaemper has published on issues of the relationship between international and domestic law, state responsibility, international environmental law, international water law and international criminal law. Erika de Wet, is Professor of International Constitutional Law at the Amsterdam Center for International Law. Prof. De Wet currently also holds the position of Extraordinary Professor at the Faculty of Law, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa and of Privatdozentin at the Faculty of Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland. She completed her basic legal training (B.Iur., LL.B.) as well as her doctoral thesis (LL.D.) at the University of the Free State (South Africa). She also holds an LL.M. from Harvard University and completed her Habilitationsschrift, at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in December 2002. It was published with Hart Publishing (United Kingdom) in 2004 under the title The Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council. Before focussing on international (institutional) law, she specialised in Comparative Constitutional Law, with a doctoral thesis on The Constitutional Enforceability of Economic and Social Rights: the Meaning of the German Constitutional model for South Africa (Butterworths, South Africa, 1996). From 1991 to 1993 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg (Germany). Thereafter she was employed at the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva (Switzerland) and the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne (Switzerland). She also lectured at Brandeis University (USA) in the spring of 1999 and held the position of Associate Professor of the Law of International Organisations at Leiden University during 2000 and 2001. Her editorial positions include membership of the Editorial Board of the Netherlands International Law Review; the Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal; as well as the International Advisory Board of the African Human Rights Law Journal.

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Professor Claudia Martin Professorial Lecturer in Residence and co-director of the Academy on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington D.C.

Colin Mayer is Peter Moores Dean of the Said Business School, Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies and Director of the Oxford Financial Research Centre. Mayer has been at the Said Business School since its inception in 1994 and was its first professor. He has built an international reputation within the field of finance, has published widely on corporate finance, taxation and governance, and on the regulation of financial markets. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and was instrumental in creating the largest and most prestigious networks of economics, law and finance academics in Europe at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). Mayer was one of two founding partners of Oxford Economic Research Associates (Oxera), now one of the largest independent economics consultancies in the UK. He has also consulted for numerous large firms, such as the BBC, British Airports Authority, British Gas, the London Stock Exchange and United Utilities. He has directed the European Science Foundation Network in Financial Markets and the Financial Economics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. In addition to having held visiting fellowships at Stanford, MIT and Brussels University (ULB), where he was the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance, he is a Delegate of Oxford University Press and Chairman of Oxera.

Karen Kingsley is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Buildings of the United States, professor emerita at the Tulane University's School of Architecture, and former Head of the Architectural Archive at Tulane. She is the author of Buildings of Louisiana (Oxford University Press, 2003) and the author of numerous articles for both scholarly and public interest books and journals.

Kevin is a published composer and arranger with Oxford University Press, Choristers Guild an Abingdon Press. His compositions have found a regular place in the repertoire of choruses of all ages both in the US and abroad. He holds degrees from Southern Methodist University and Ohio Northern University, has done post-graduate work at Texas Tech University, and is currently pursuing the Doctor of Music Arts degree at the University of Houston.

Niamh Hayes is a doctoral candidate at the Irish Center for Human Rights in Galway, Ireland . She is a case reporter for the Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law (ORICL) for Oxford University Press. She has delivered tutorials and lectures to undergraduate students in subjects including Constitutional Law, Property Law, International Law, Criminology and Environmental Law. niamh1@gmail.com niamh1@gmail.com

Theodore Holford, Ph.D., Chief Biostatistical Consultant. Dr. Holford is Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics), Professor of Statistics and Head of the Division of Biostatistics at Yale University School of Medicine. During his career, he has focused his scholarly activities on promoting good statistical practice in health sciences research. The fields in which he has collaborated and used his methods include cancer epidemiology, perinatal epidemiology, environmental health sciences, spinal cord injury studies, psychiatry, geriatrics and pediatrics. He is one of the founding editors of Statistical Methods in Medical Research, a review journal that strives to bring state-of-the-art techniques to practicing biostatisticians. In addition, he is the author of Multivariate Methods in Epidemiology (Oxford University Press 2002), a textbook and standard reference on statistical methods in epidemiological research. In addition, he has made significant methodological contributions to multivariate analysis of matched studies, log-linear models for survival, analysis of time trends for disease, and population models for disease trends. These research projects also seek to identify specific genetic polymorphisms that are associated with disease risk, or modify the effect of risk factors, i.e., gene-environment interactions.

Vera Jane Cook, known to friends and family by her middle name, was born in New York City and grew up amid the eccentricity of her southern and glamorous mother on the Upper West and Upper East Side of Manhattan. An only child, Jane turned to reading novels at an early age and was deeply influenced by an eclectic group of authors. Her early favorites were Look Homeward Angel, Atlas Shrugged, Portrait of a Lady, War and Peace and anything and everything by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Some of Jane's present favorites are The Secret Life of Bees, Interview with a Vampire, Dogs of Babel, The Color Purple, the books of Luanne Rice, and anything and everything by Nelson DeMille. Jane has won numerous awards for her work as an actress and has worked in the professional theatre for over a decade, falling further in love with the plays of Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neil, Lillian Hellmann, and Sam Shepherd. Jane has appeared in television, regional theatre, film and off Broadway. Some of her credits have included both classic and original plays at Playwrights Horizons, WPA Theatre, Kennedy Center, Theatre for The New City, Bucks County Playhouse and many others. After ten years in the theatre, Jane developed a passion for art history, film theory and philosophy. To nurture her many interests, Jane enrolled at Hunter College through the CUNY BA/BS program from the City University of New York. Jane received her degree in Communications and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1982. Jane went on to earn a Masters in Educational Theatre from New York University and took an honorary withdrawal from Actors Equity, SAG and AFTRA. For the next decade, Jane became a teacher and seminar/workshop leader. At the New Lincoln School, Jane taught creative writing, drama and English to middle and high school students. Jane also taught the craft of acting to adult professionals at various colleges and adult centers. In the mid eighties, Jane developed a seminar for artists that focused on teaching the business of being successful in the arts entitled: The Reality of the Dream. This on-going workshop received successful feedback for Jane and was presented at many artists' forums, acting schools and colleges around the tri-state area. A bizarre mid-life crisis forced Jane into corporate life at the age of forty-five. She worked as an education territory manager for The New York Times and as a Project Manager for the Education department of the New York Daily News. She has also worked for Scholastic Inc. in New York City and presently works as an Education Specialist for Oxford University Press. Jane is grateful for her years in corporate America for it was during this period in her life that she discovered the importance of creativity. Over the last few years, Jane has completed five novels and has developed her newest workshop/seminar: The Corporate Crunch: Get Creative or Crack. This seminar/workshop is presently available for workshops, seminars, and adult education courses and is also the basis for her first non-fiction book.

Weston Naef has been Curator of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum since 1984, and the author of several books related to exhibitions, among them Era of Exploration (Little Brown), The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz (Oxford University Press), and The Truthful Lens (with Lucien Goldschmidt, University of Virginia Press). He is also general editor of the In Focus series of monographs. Navjotika Kumar received her Masters degrees in Art History from the University of Notre Dame and Cornell University, where she is currently working on her doctorate with Hal Foster.

Kerr is chairman of the board of Meredith Corporation. He was elected chairman in January 1998, having served as president and CEO from January 1, 1997 until June 30, 2006. In 1994, Kerr was named president and COO of Meredith, responsible for overseeing the day-to-day business of the company's operating groups. At that time, Kerr was also appointed as a member of the Meredith Board of Directors and a member of the Board's executive committee. Prior to that, Kerr served as president of the Meredith Magazine Group and executive vice president of the company, where he was responsible for the strategic direction and day-to-day management of all magazine operations. Prior to joining Meredith in September of 1991, Kerr was a vice president of The New York Times Company and president of its magazine group, a position he held since 1984. Kerr has also held posts with Dillon, Read & Co., and McKinsey and Company. A native of Seattle, Kerr is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Washington. He earned a degree in modern history as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Kerr also serves on the Boards of The Principal Financial Group, Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. and Arbitron, Inc.

Andrew McNeillie was born at Hen Golwyn in North Wales in 1946 and educated at the primary school there, at Colwyn Bay Grammar School, and from the age of thirteen at John Bright Grammar School, Llandudno. He read English at Magdalen College, Oxford, as a mature student, 1971-1973. He is currently the Literature Editor at Oxford University Press. His collection of poems Nevermore (2000), in the Oxford Poets series from Carcanet, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His prose memoir An Aran Keening tells of his stay on Inis Mor, just short of a year through 1968-69. It was published in 2001 by the Lilliput Press, Dublin, and in 2002 in the USA by the University of Wisconsin Press. Adam Nicolson, choosing his book of the year for 2002, in the Daily Telegraph wrote: 'I enjoyed nothing more this year than An Aran Keening, Andrew McNeillie's soft, sharp, funny and often heart-wrenchingly nostalgic account of the 11 months he spent on Inishmore, the biggest of the Aran Islands, in the late 1960s.' Tim Robinson in the Irish Times wrote: ' McNeillie's prose can be as pristine and effervescent as the sea's edge on a summer beach .Aran is once again a larger place than it was.' A new collection of poems Now, Then came out in 2002 from Oxford/Carcanet. His next collection is due from Carcanet Press in 2005.

Christopher Peterson teaches "North of Neutral--The Master Class in Positive Psychology" by global teleconference from his office in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Chris is Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and Templeton Senior Fellow at the Positive Psychology Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD. in social psychology from the University of Colorado and respecialized in clinical psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed a clinical psychology internship at the Philadelphia VAMC. One of the leading figures in positive psychology, Chris is a member of the Positive Psychology Steering Committee, a member of the board of directors of the Gallup Organization Positive Psychology Institute, a consulting editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology, and the positive psychology series editor of Oxford University Press. He is the research director of the Values in Action (VIA) project, the most ambitious undertaking to date from the explicit vantage of positive psychology; the VIA project describes, classifies, and measures important strengths of character. Chris is an award-winning teacher at the University of Michigan and holds the Arthur F. Thurnau Chair in honor of his teaching accomplishments. Among the world's 100 most widely-cited psychologists during the past twenty years, Chris is the co-author of Character Strengths and Virtues (2004) and the author of A Primer in Positive Psychology (2006).

Grant Barrett is project editor of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang for Oxford University Press and a minor contributor to the New Oxford American Dictionary, second edition. He is also editor of the forthcoming Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (McGraw-Hill, May 2006), editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Political Slang, and editor of the Double-Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary website.

Hilary holds a BA in Spanish, Italian and Philosophy from Kenyon College and a MA in Linguistics and TESOL from the University of Florida. As an undergraduate, Hilary taught Spanish and spent a summer in Kibwezi, Kenya teaching English as a Second Language. After graduating from college, Hilary worked as an instructor at Lado International College for two years teaching expository writing, grammar and TOEFL preparatory courses. During graduate school, she taught at the English Language Institute on campus and privately tutored a studio of twelve high school students. She currently works as an editor for Oxford University Press in New York and develops English language teaching materials. Hilary teaches the verbal portions of the SSAT, ISEE, SAT and ACT.

He and his wife, Jessica Ryan, have lived in Carrboro for almost 18 years and they have two children: Alma, 15; and Liam, 14. Ms. Ryan is a fabric artist and quilter, and according to her husband, "she also has an eye for antiques and landscape design." She is the Managing Editor at Oxford University Press in Cary.

Nick Bostrom is the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University. He previously taught in the Faculty of Philosophy and in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. He is also a former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. Bostrom has published more than 100 articles, including papers in journals such as Nature, Journal of Philosophy, Bioethics, Mind, Journal of Medical Ethics, and Astrophysics & Space Science. He is the author of one monograph, Anthropic Bias (Routledge), and the co-editor of two forthcoming volumes with Oxford University Press: one on global catastrophic risk, the other on the ethics of human enhancement. His writings have been translated into 15 different languages. Bostrom is a leading expert on the consequences and ethics of human enhancement and other emerging technologies. His research also covers the foundations of probability theory, scientific methodology, and risk analysis. Bostrom has a background in physics and computational neuroscience as well as in philosophy. Dr. Bostrom is a frequently sough-after commentator in the media, and he has done nearly 200 interviews for television, radio, and print media.

Dr. Morse is the editor of two books, Emerging Viruses (Oxford University Press, 1993; paperback, 1996), which was selected by "American Scientist" for its list of "100 Top Science Books of the 20th Century", and The Evolutionary Biology of Viruses (Raven Press, 1994). He currently serves as a Section Editor of the CDC journal "Emerging Infectious Diseases" and was formerly an Editor-in-Chief of the Pasteur Institute's journal "Research in Virology".

William R. Stott, Ph.D., joined the OWASA Board in October 2006 as an appointee of the Town of Carrboro. He serves on the Board's Natural Resources/Technical Systems and Ad Hoc Art Committees. Professor Stott serves on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Carolina Environmental Program (CEP) and he is the Director of the CEP's Albemarle Ecological Field Site. Before joining the University's CEP, Mr. Stott was an Assistant Professor at Elon College and a lecturer in American Studies and International Studies at UNC - Chapel Hill. His scholarship has focused on American nature writing and "ecocriticism"; a grant from NC Sea Grant initiated ongoing ethnographic research in NC commercial fishing communities. Mr. Stott is the author of several articles, poems, and conference proceedings; his first volume of poetry, "Loomings," will be published next Spring. His courses at UNC - Chapel Hill have examined the literary and visual representation of wetlands landscapes, the literature of place, and the representation of commercial fishing in folklore, literature, and contemporary science. He has received three teaching awards at Chapel Hill, including the prestigious Tanner Award. Originally from the New York metropolitan area, Mr. Stott received his Master's and Bachelor's degrees from Georgetown University, in literature and philosophy, and his doctoral degree in English from UNC-Chapel Hill. He and his wife, Jessica Ryan, have lived in Carrboro for almost 18 years and they have two children: Alma, 15; and Liam, 14. Ms. Ryan is a fabric artist and quilter, and according to her husband, "she also has an eye for antiques and landscape design." She is the Managing Editor at Oxford University Press in Cary.