- Floyd Council
Floyd Council (September 2 1911-May 9 1976) was an American blues musician. Floyd was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to Harrie and Lizzie Council. Floyd began his musical career on the streets of Chapel Hill in the 1920s with his two brothers, Leo and Thomas. According to a 1969 interview, Floyd stated he had recorded 27 songs over his career, seven of them backing Blind Boy Fuller.
- Disciplinary Council
In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a disciplinary council is an ecclesiastical trial during which a member of the church is trial for alleged violations of church standards. If a member of the LDS Church is found guilty of an offence by a disciplinary council, he or she may be excommunicated or their church membership may be otherwise restricted. As an ecclesiastical court with no jurisdiction to try criminal or civil matters, …
- Brenda Council
Brenda J. Council is a labor lawyer and community leader in North Omaha, Nebraska.
- Carol Rowell Council
Carol Rowell Council is the co-founder of the women's studies department at San Diego State University, the first women’s studies program in the United States in 1969. The other co-founder is Dr. Joyce Nower. Today, there are over 600 women's studies programs around the world. Council holds a bachelor's degree in public administration from San Diego State University (SDSU), and a master's degree in art history, from Rosary College's Villa Schifanoia campus, Florence, …
- Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba. He led the revolution overthrowing dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and shortly after was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Cuba. Castro became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965, and led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic. In 1976 he became president of the Council of State as well as of the Council of Ministers.
- Javier Solana
JAVIER SOLANA President of Madariaga European Foundation Dr. Javier Solana was born in Madrid on 14 July, 1942. He is married to Concepción Giménez and has two children. He has a Doctorate in Physics, and was a Fullbright scholar at several American universities. A Professor of Solid-state Physics at Madrid Complutense University, he is the author of over thirty publications in his field. He is a member of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome.
- James To
James To Kun Sun is member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong since 1991 except between 1997 and 1998. To is also a member of the Yau Tsim Mong District Council.
- Walter Russell Mead
Walter Russell Mead (born 12 June, 1952, Columbia, South Carolina) is the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and one of the country's leading students of American foreign policy. Mead's father was an Episcopal priest and he grew up in several places in the South. He received his B.A. in English Literature from Yale University, but never went to graduate school, …
- Dan Gillerman
Dan Gillerman, born in British Mandate Palestine in 1944, is Israel's 13th Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He was appointed in July 2002 and assumed his post on January 1, 2003. Educated at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Gillerman served as the CEO of several Israeli companies, Chairman of the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce, …
- Ratan Naval Tata
"One hundred years from now, I expect the Tatas to be much bigger than it is now. More importantly, I hope the Group comes to be regarded as being the best in India - best in the manner in which we operate, best in the products we deliver, and best in our value systems and ethics. Having said that, I hope that a hundred years from now we will spread our wings far beyond India..." Ratan Tata
- Bob Russell
Robert Edward Russell, known as Bob Russell, (born 31 March 1946, London) is a British politician. He has been Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Colchester since 1997 (re-elected 2001 and 2005). He was the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesman on Culture, Media and Sport 2002-2005, but the portfolio is now held by Don Foster. Russell is currently a member of the LibDem's Shadow Defence team. Russell has a majority of 6,277 votes.
- Andrew To
Andrew To is a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. He is also the Secretary of The Frontier. His wife, Jackie Hung, is a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese. He was an active Hong Kong students' representative during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and he once went to Beijing to join the hunger strike. In 1991, he was elected district board member.
- Doug Thompson
Doug Thompson is a former mayor of Osgoode Township prior to the amalgamation with the new City of Ottawa, and he is a Councillor with the amalgamated City of Ottawa Council for Osgoode Ward. Prior to being Mayor of Osgoode Township, Mr Thompson was a councillor for the municipality. In the first election for Councillor of Ottawa, he had several contenders, but won by a large margin. During the second election, he was acclaimed.
- Robert Cooper
Robert Francis Cooper was a British diplomat until 2002 when he assumed the role of Director-General for External and Politico-Military Affairs at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union. He is responsible to Javier Solana, High Representative of the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, and has assisted with the implementation of European strategic, security and defence policy.
- Richard Lochhead
Richard Neilson Lochhead (born May 24, 1969) is a Scottish National Party politician, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Moray.
- Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter.
- Kerry Healey
Kerry Healey Kerry Healey served as Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2003-2007.
- Saint Dominic
Saint Dominic, also known as Dominic of Osma, often called Dominic de Guzmán and Domingo de Guzmán Garcés (1170 - August 6, 1221) was the founder of the Friars Preachers, popularly called the Dominicans or Order of Preachers (OP), a Catholic religious order. Dominic is the patron saint of astronomers and the Dominican Republic.
- Anne-Marie Slaughter
Anne-Marie Slaughter (born September 27, 1958) is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs and current Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Slaughter received her A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School in 1980, her M.Phil. in International Affairs from Oxford University in 1982, her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1985, …
- Denise Austin
Denise Austin (born February 13, 1957) is an American fitness and exercise expert, author, columnist and instructor. She is also a member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. She is married to sports attorney Jeff Austin, with whom she has two daughters: Kelly (born 1990) and Katie (born 1993). Her sister-in-law is U.S. tennis champion Tracy Austin. Austin was born Denise Katnich in San Pedro, CA. She started gymnastics at the age of 12, …
- Charles Lawrence
Charles Lawrence (December 14, 1709 - October 19, 1760) was a British military officer who, as lieutenant governor and subsequently governor of Nova Scotia, was responsible for overseeing the expulsion of Acadians from the colony in the Great Upheaval. He was born in Plymouth, England and died in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- John Adler
John Herbert Adler (born August 23, 1959) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey State Senate since 1992, where he represents the 6th Legislative District. Adler was Democratic Conference Chair from 2002-03 and Assistant Minority Leader from 1994-2001. He has served as Assistant Minority Leader and Democratic Conference Chairman, and currently serves as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, …
- Andrew Kohut
Andrew Kohut is an American pollster. Kohut currently serves as the president of Pew Research Center and director of two of Pew's sub-projects: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and Pew Global Attitudes Project.
- Leung Yiu Chung
The Honourable Leung Yiu Chung is member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong since 1995, except for a period between 1997 and 1998. Since 1998 he represents the New Territories West. Leung is also a member of the Kwai Tsing District Council. Leung is a member of the Neighbourhood Workers Service Centre.
- David Hinchliffe
David Hinchliffe is the Deputy Mayor and Leader of the Majority Councillors in the Brisbane City Council. As Deputy Mayor, David is the Deputy Chair of Brisbane City Council’s Civic Cabinet and acting Lord Mayor in the absence of the Lord Mayor Campbell Newman. David Hinchliffe is also the leader of the 17 Australian Labor Party Councillors who form the majority in the Council.
- Peter Tapsell
Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell (born 1 February 1930, Hove) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Member of Parliament for Louth and Horncastle. Tapsell was educated at Tonbridge School and Merton College, Oxford, during which time he was also Librarian of the Oxford Union (a senior office). Tapsell contested the Wednesbury by-election in 1957, losing to the Labour victor John Stonehouse. He first entered Parliament in the 1959 general election, …
- Christopher Cabaldon
Christopher L. Cabaldon (born November 12, 1965) is an American politician from California who serves as mayor of West Sacramento and President/CEO of EdVoice, a Sacramento based education non-profit advocacy group. A Democrat, he is a candidate for the 8th district seat in the California State Assembly in 2008. Cabaldon has served as Vice Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, the largest system of higher education in the United States.
- Peter Milczyn
Peter Milczyn (born 1965) is a city councillor in Toronto, Canada. He represents one of the two Etobicoke-Lakeshore wards, Ward 5 Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Born in Etobicoke, he attended Etobicoke Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto where he got a degree in architecture. He set up his own design firm, but his interest in urban planning issues propelled him into politics. Milczyn first ran for a seat on the Etobicoke city council in 1991, but lost.
- Robert Lilligren
Robert Lilligren (born July 2, 1960) is an American politician and member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is an elected member of the Minneapolis City Council. He was first elected in 2001, then re-elected in 2005. He represents the poorest ward in Minneapolis. He is openly gay and a member of a Native American tribe. He does not own a car, but rides a bicycle to City Hall.
- Lex Frieden
Lex Frieden , one of the architects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and a nationally-recognized independent living advocate, has joined the faculty of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Lex Frieden Frieden's primary appointment is as a professor of health informatics at The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston (SHIS), where he will direct the school's new Laboratory for Adaptive Technologies.
- Howard Wolpe
Howard Wolpe , a former seven-term Member of Congress and former Presidential Special Envoy to Africa's Great Lakes Region, is also Director of the Center's Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity. For ten of his fourteen years in the Congress, Wolpe chaired the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
- Adama Dieng
Adama Dieng (born May 22 1950, Senegal) is a former board member of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and a former registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Thomas Pogge
Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge is a philosopher, currently Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He received his PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation supervised by John Rawls. Pogge serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Carnegie Council journal, Ethics & International Affairs, and is an Ethics and Debt Project participant.
- Richard Garwin
Richard L. Garwin was born in 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a B.S. in physics from Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1949. Garwin began his work with nuclear weapons technology in 1950 and continues to be an influential voice in national security issues today. Garwin joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1950 and also made study visits to Los Alamos Laboratory.
- Norman Pearlstine
Norman Pearlstine (born October 4 1942, in Philadelphia) is the former editor in chief of Time Inc.. He served as editor in chief between January 1 1995, and December 31, 2005. At the end of his tenure, he was responsible for the content of Time Inc's 154 publications. Through 2006, he served as a senior advisor to Time Warner. In September 2006, he joined The Carlyle Group as a senior advisor to the firm's telecommunications and media group.
- Rick Chiarelli
Rick Chiarelli (c.1963) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently an Ottawa City Councillor, and the second cousin of former Ottawa mayor Bob Chiarelli. He represents the College ward covering part of Nepean. Deeply active in Liberal Party politics in his youth, he was first elected to office at age 19 when he won a seat on the Carleton Separate School Board in 1982. At the time, he was the youngest elected official in the province.
- Raymond L. Orbach
Raymond Orbach was sworn in as the Director of the Department's Office of Science on March 14,2002. With an annual budget of$3.3 billion, the Office of Science is the principal funding agency of the nation's research programs in high-energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy sciences. The office also manages research programs in basic energy sciences, biological and environmental sciences, and computational science, all of which also support the missions of the department.
- Lawrence Korb
Lawrence J. Korb is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Advisor to the Center for Defense Information. Prior to joining the Center, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From July 1998 to October 2002, he was Council Vice President, Director of Studies, and holder of the Maurice Greenberg Chair.
- Wong Yan Lung
Wong Yan Lung <small>,SC,JP</small> (born 1963) is currently the Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong from October 20,2005. Before his appointment, he was barrister in private practice. He sat as Deputy High Court Judge of the Court of First Instance in July and August in 2003, and was a Council member of the Council of the Hong Kong Bar Association from 1989 to 1990, …
- Hiroshi Okuda
Hiroshi Okuda (b. 1932, Mie Prefecture), chairman of the Toyota Motor Corporation since 1999. He became president of Toyota in 1995 and has worked at the corporation for 50 years. In 1998, Okuda was selected as a member of the Prime Minister's Economic Strategy Council of Japan and became chairman of the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations in 1999. He has also held the position of chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association since 2000.