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IIMSAM's FACILITATORS
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H.E. Mr. George Hara , Ambassador at-large to Japan and Facilitator for the Operation Lifeline - International Spirulina Programme Initiative, IIMSAM's affirmative action initiative aimed to save victims of malnutrition worldwide. Ambassador Hara is internationally known as a leading edge venture capitalist and a visionary architect in the field of post-PC technology, namely Pervasive Ubiquitous Communication (PUC). DEFTA Partners is a pioneer in the creation of new post PC industries using PUC technology through its worldwide operations in San Francisco, London, Seoul, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo. In February 2005, Ambassador Hara completed the merger between Oplus Technologies (the leader of chip processing LCD and Plasma display) with INTEL. He has served as Chairman of the Board since its inception. He is currently Chairman of the Board at XVD Inc.(world leader of the HDTV codec engine). He also initiated wireless broad band service companies aiming at distant learning education and Tele-Medicine in the Least Developed Countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. His first Wireless Broadband Project was launched as a pilot-project in Bangladesh in October 2005.
Prior to 2000, he had helped create many IT firms and managed them as a Chairman of the Board, a major shareholder or a Board Member. Such companies include Borland (3rd largest PC Software company in the world, founded by French Entrepreneur, P Kahn), PictureTel (world leader of video conference), SCO (the largest PC Unix), Accelerated Network (world pioneer of ADSL),Zoran(world major DVD chip), Wollongong (world's first commercialized TCP-IP)and TRADEX (inventor of B2B engine, that merged with Ariba at USD1.8 billion). Ambassador Hara also assisted academicians in the UK starting new ventures such as Microcosm (optical switching, Bristol), Transitive Technologies (Manchester) and Sealed Media(Oxford) through his operations in London.
In the Public Sector, Ambassador Hara is Chairman of the Alliance Forum Foundation. He has also served on the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Zoo, University of San Francisco, Tokyo Foundation, and the Hara Research Foundation which offers more than 250 fellowships for interdisciplinary research between life, science and computer science since 1990. In 2003 Ambassador Hara received the National Leadership Award and was named Honorary Co-Chairman of the Republican Business Advisory Council in the U.S.
Ambassador Hara was appointed by the Prime Minister of Japan to serve as Prime Minister`s Special Commissioner on Tax Reforms in Japan in the year 2006. He was also appointed Advisor to the Minister of Finance.
Ambassador Hara is a former United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Fellow. He has a LL.B. degree from the Keio University, Japan and a MS degree from the School of Engineering at Stanford University, United States.
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Ms. E. Nana-Fosu Randall, IIMSAM's Special Adviser and Facilitator for Africa with special focus on Ghana, Tanzania, Liberia and Uganda. She was born in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana and received her early education in Ghana and England. She holds a bachelors degree in accounting from Hampton University, Virginia, an MBA in Finance from the New York Institute of Technology and has had more than 29 years of experience in the Accounts Division of the United Nations.
Her years with the UN included many fieldwork missions, as well as at the UN Headquarters. Among other assignments, she served in 1990 as Chief Finance Officer to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, Chief Finance Officer to the UN Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission from 1991-1993, Chief Revenue, Trust Funds and Technical Cooperation Section of the UN, from 1998-2000. In 2001 and 2002 she had a special posting as Chief Administrative Officer for the UN International Commission in the Ivory Coast and the UN Officer of Peace Building Activities in Liberia. She served as treasurer of the UN African Mothers Association, and most recently as Senior Special Assistant to the Director of the UN Accounts Division.
Nana-Fosu Randall has seen much suffering during her service with the UN. She developed an opinion: “Wars do not build nations; wars destroy them. Wars bring unnecessary pain, hunger, distress and suffering especially to the women and children. She believes that there is an alternative to war; the promotion of peace, the sharing of resources and the creation of understanding among all people.” With those thoughts in mind she, along with a group of friends founded Voices of African Mothers.
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Ms. Celine Ebere Osukwu was born in Nigeria during the Civil War. A victim of infantile sickness, she became disabled later during her childhood. Against all odds, discrimination, and marginalization that Ms. Osukwu faced as a girl child and a disabled person, she forged ahead in her life securing basic education and graduating from the University of Benin in Nigeria. Later, she attained a Master`s degree from the University of Middlesex in London. In 2004, Ms. Osukwu completed an internship at UN Headquarters in New York with the Deptartment of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) .
Ms. Osukwu comes to IIMSAM with a wealth of knowledge in the field of Gender Relations and Conflict Management. She also possesses an extensive and varied experience in the sustainable development issues, her work with the NGO`s in the field of women empowerment, the Girl Child and other related issues that hd made her an asset to all those entities of which she was associated with in the past, in her effort to make the world a better place.
Ms. Osukwu will be working on project-development and implementation for IIMSAM in the field of malnutrition and sustainable development and in support of the UN MDGs most important goal that is the eradication of Hunger and Poverty. |
H.E . Mr. John Suran [Vanuatu ] was appointed by the Prime Minister of Vanuatu as the Chairperson for the Disability Promotion & Advocacy Council (Vanuatu) from year 2000-2006 that deals especially with the rights and employment and other matters of the disabled peoples of Vanuatu. As the Chairperson for Disable People of Vanuatu , he was responsible for attending and observing the Special Body Meeting for the extension of Decade for Person's with Disability in the Asia-Pacific Region from 2003 - 2012. He represented the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Government Delegation of Vanuatu at the meeting that assembled for the adoption of the extension of Decade for Person's with Disability in the Asia-Pacific from 2003 - 2012 and also for the Capacity Building for Sustainable Tourism in the Asia-Pacific Region. He was invited by the UN to represent as a leader of Vanuatu and the Pacific and was nominated by our government to participate in the Ad-hoc meeting on the Rights of Disabled Peoples within the UN in New York . H.E. John Suran was appointed Special-Envoy of IIMSAM POMUN to Vanuatu in October 2005. |
Geraldine De La Serna IIMSAM`S Goodwill Sp. Adviser at-large in the Republic of Mexico. Geraldine holds a Degree in Accounting and Foreign Languages from the Autonomous University of Aguas Calientes, Mexico.
She has worked with orphaned children and the elderly in the field of moral values, malnutrition programmes and the collection and delivery of consumer goods to the homeless population.
She is member of the School of Self Reliance for a better life in Aguas Calientes, Mexico. She has been a catalyst in initiating several humanitarian programmes to the poverty stricken masses, she has also raised awareness via public relations campaign in support of the UN MDGs. It is her intention to serve IIMSAM as a Facilitator in order to bring about a spirulina food supplement programme to the severely poverty stricken areas of the Aguas Calientes Region. Ms. De La Serna will also act as IIMSAM`s liaison to the National, Regional and local Government Officials.
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Mr. Enrique S. Sarfati is an Engineer-Agronomist who is Resident Representative and Special Adviser on Disability Issues to the Republic of Argentina . Mr. Sarfati has had a long and impressive career as an agronomist and he is a staunch advocate for the advancement of the rights of disabled peoples in the Latin American Region. Mr. Sarfati was designated as the best Agronomist of Argentina in the year 2003. He has conducted numerous studies on the issues that concern the advancement of the
disabled as well as participated as an NGO and on the Argentinean delegation to the various Sessions of the UN Ad-Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities.
He is IIMSAM 's Resident Representative to the Republic of Argentina & Special Envoy for Malnutrition and United Nations' MDGs.
UN Convention on the Human Rights of People with Disabilities , 8th Session of the ad-hoc committee, Background paper by Mr. Sarfati, 30 May 2006 |
Ms. Lauren Evans (United Kingdom) IIMSAM Adviser Facilitator was born on March 1st, 1981 in Wimbledon, London. She is a BA (Hons.) Degree graduate from Oxford Brookes University, U.K. (2002). She has always felt that aiding other 'life in need' is of extreme importance to her. Therefore, she has been a generous supporter of World Vision, IFAW and WWF (both Children and Animal Welfare charities). She is a volunteer with the ‘U.S fund for UNICEF’ and keeps track of all current UN world crisis issues and Assembly discussions. She hopes to do field work, primarily through the IIMSAM as well as through UNICEF and UNHCR. She has been brought up immersed in aid work. Her mother was the Chairman of Save The Children Fund, Surrey, U.K and her father is the Chairman of the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, London. She is excited to join IIMSAM as an Adviser Facilitator and will help them carve their way in the future years ahead, in raising awareness and funds, so as to provide more Spirulina to combat Malnutrition. She sincerely believes in IIMSAM when it states that everyone has 'The Right to Food’ and trying to secure it through Spirulina.
She is also passionate about acting and is training both in London and New York. Her hobbies are martial arts (Boxing, Samurai, Jiu Jitsu and Capoeira). She plays County tennis, has undertaken Duke of Edinburgh Awards, Lamda Acting Exams and was head of Choir, at School.
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Mr. Gunnar Magg, Facilitator and Adviser for IIMSAM’s Project Green Life Fallujah is a Swedish born producer, director, and actor who is active in the entertainment industry for over thirty years. Mr. Magg is Co-founder and executive producer of World Television Network Limited (W.T.N.) that specialises in news productions and current affairs documentaries as well as charitable fundraising TV concepts worldwide. He is also the Founder, CEO, and President of TMTV- Trademark TV, a Swedish production company producing TV programs and content concepts for the entertainment industry, specializing in international TV formats. He was instrumental in creating and producing “Bridges of Hope”, a fund raising interactive TV game show concept along with a fund raising TV programme for the UNICEF. He also contributed significantly in Nelson Mandela’s, “Global Movement for Children.” Mr. Magg would facilitate Project Green Life Fallujah that would focus on eradicating malnutrition and empowering lives through Spirulina in Fallujah, Iraq.
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