Advisory Board
Phil Ross Ph.D.
Phil worked as an environmental and health statistician for the USEPA and was the Agency’s Chief Statistician from 1996 until 2006. After leaving the EPA in 2006, and through late 2009, Phil was Chief of the Statistic’s Department at the Japan/US National Academies of Science’s Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF). RERF is a jointly sponsored US and Japanese research foundation dedicated to examining the effects of radiation exposure on the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb explosions. In addition to his work with RERF, he has maintained a statistical service company specializing in providing statistical data management, design and analysis in support of biomedical studies and clinical trials. He has published extensively and received numerous awards for his work. He is presently an Adjunct Professor of Medical Statistics at SUNY Downstate Medical School. From 1980 to 2004 he was Associate Professorial Lecturer at the Cornell Weill Medical School as well as Adjunct Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at American University. He presently serves on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Environmental Modeling & Assessment and the Journal of Ecological Statistics. He received his PhD in statistics from the University of Maryland in 1973.
Ephraim Clark Ph.D.
Ephraim Clark specializes in finance, international business and strategic analysis. He has two PhD’s, one in Development Economics and the other in Financial Economics and currently holds the Chair in Finance at Middlesex University. He is also a highly regarded seminar leader and speaker and has delivered keynote speeches to groups such as Arthur Andersen Consultants, GARP, ISDA and Euromoney Plc.
Clark is the author of eight books, over sixty academic and professional papers in journals such as Management Science, Journal of International Money and Finance, European Journal of Operational Research, Review of International Economics, Journal of Economics and Business, Multinational Finance Journal, Garp Risk Review, Euromoney, Global Investor, Revue Banque, etc. Honors and awards include numerous research grants and best paper awards. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly journals and is the founding editor of the European Journal of Finance. He has been elected as president of the Multinational Finance Society, president of the International Society for the Intercommunication of New Ideas and vice-president of the International Association of Finance and Banking. He is also a member of numerous professional organizations and is a permanent member of the Académie Européenne.
Peter Hardi
Peter is Professor of Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Director of the Center for Business and Society, and Area Coordinator, Business and Society; at the Central European University. His interdisciplinary background helps him combine theoretical knowledge with practical expertise. His research focuses on theoretical and methodological issues of sustainable development (SD) in business and policy-making; sustainability assessment; corporate reporting and corporate social responsibility. He is the author of numerous papers in academic journals, monographs and books, including: Evaluating Sustainable Development Vol. 1 and 2, (Co-editor), Edward Elgar Publisher 2007; Assessing Sustainable Development: Principles in Practice (Co-editor), IISD 1997; Environmental Protection in East-Central Europe: A Market-Oriented Approach. Bertelsmann Foundation Publisher 1994; and Environmental Policy Making in Central and Eastern Europe. University of California, Berkeley 1992. For more, see http://business.ceu.hu/profiles/faculty/peter_hardi
Kurt Ramin
Kurt has been a pioneer in global reporting languages and standards. Kurt has been an advisor to the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation (IASCF) in London for many years. His work involved outreach and travel to over 70 countries adopting IFRS. Mr. Ramin was instrumental in the development of the world's leading digital business reporting language - XBRL/IFRS. At the IASCF, he also was responsible for initiating the localization and translation of IFRS, now translated into over 50 languages and used by over 100 countries around the globe.
Mr. Ramin was elected Global Chairman of the XBRL International Steering Committee and served as the longest acting Chairman of that organization.
In October 2008, at IUCN’s World Conservation Congress in Barcelona , Mr. Ramin was elected to a 4-year term to the Council (as treasurer) of IUCN, the largest environmental network in the world.
David Grossman Ph.D.
David is currently on the faculty at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he runs their next generation search lab. In 2003, he was the general chair for the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management and has over seventy publications on next generation search technology as well as a graduate level textbook on Information Retrieval. David worked for the government for 12 years where his last job was as project manager for the enterprise data warehouse and he led efforts to build an executive information system that is still in place. After doing significant research, David was awarded the 1997 CIA Scientist of the Year.
David has significant knowledge of OLAP technology and was a pioneer in this field. He has a depth of experience in the natural integration of structured and unstructured data. He has written patents on “intranet mediation” which describes the many fundamentally different high-level types (structured, semi-structured, text, video, image, sound, etc.) and "Detection of Misuse of Authorized Access in an Information Retrieval System". David received his Ph.D. from George Mason in 1995 - Ph.D. Information Technology Thesis: Integrating Structured Data and Text: A Relational Approach. His consulting work focuses on Data Warehousing and Data Mining, and Database systems.
Gary Gannon
Gary serves as international advisory board member of the United Nations Global Compact Cities Programme (UNGCCP), helping cities to become economically, politically, socially, and environmentally sustainable. Mr. Gannon was one of the first members of XBRL, helping to create and expand XBRL globally. XBRL is a language for the electronic communication of business and financial data which is revolutionizing business reporting around the world. He played an active role in the XBRL Consortium for several years, created XBRL workgroups, and served on the XBRL US steering committee for three years. Realizing XBRL required quality software to be successful, he co-founded, UBmatrix, a world leader in XBRL processing software.
Over the last few years, Mr. Gannon has focused exclusively on initiatives and businesses focused on sustainability. Mr. Gannon has a long history of developing companies at the leading edge of technology and software development, associated with Artificial Intelligence, financial services, electronic commerce, education, and interactive multimedia.