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Participants

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Ann Nei/2012/Bidor-Malaysia


Our present list of participants is given below.       

Participation in the conference is strictly by invitation.  We expect to invite no more than 110 persons from all over the world. We are aiming to bring persons with diverse expertise, experiences and concerns to ensure rich and productive conversations and dialogue sessions. 

Because of some critical challenges, we will continue to invite or approve those interested in participating in the conference only after March 2013.  Please write to us after March 2013. Thank you.



Note on Symbols: 
The Chinese Dragon's "benevolence signifies greatness, goodness and blessings...[It] symbolizes power and excellence, valiancy and boldness, heroism and perseverance, nobility and divinity. A dragon overcomes obstacles until success. [Representing 'Yang', he] is energetic, decisive, optimistic, intelligent and ambitious."


Dr. Anwar Fazal
Aletrnative Nobel Prize Winner

Director, Right Livelihood College, 
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), 
Penang, Malaysia


Ajarn Sulak Sivaraksa

Alternative Nobel Prize Winner
Social critic, teacher, scholar, publisher, and  activist
Bangkok, Thailand


Manish Jain
Shikshantar: The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education and Development, 
Udaipur, Rajasthan, India


Dr. Sohail Inayatullah
Political Scientist & Futurist
Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation 
Professor at Tamkang University (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies)
Taipei , Taiwan
Visiting Academic/Research Associate at Queensland University of Technology (Centre for Social Change Research), Australia


Khoo Salma Nasution
Author

Asian Public Intellectual (API) Fellow
President, Penang Heritage Trust
Director and Partner , Areca Books
Director and Partner, Lestari Heritage Network 
Penang, Malaysia

Dr. Dicky Sufjan
Core Doctoral Faculty
Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies
Yogjakarta, Indonesia


Sashi Kumar
Media Thinker & Entrepreneur
Chairman (of the not for profit public trust): 
Media Development Foundation (which runs the Asian College of Journalism)
Chennai, India


Dr. David Haley  
Senior Research Fellow
Director: EIP [Ecology In Practice] 
MA (Art As Environment) Programme Leader

MIRIAD
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester, UK


Charles Santiago
Parliamentarian & Social Activist
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


Somboon Chungprampree
Executive Secretary, 
International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB)  &
International Director of Spirit in Education Movement (SEM)
Bangkok, Thailand


Yazdi Jehangir Bankwala
Co-founder, Centre for Promoting Human Values, Singapore

Consultant, Arpitha Associates (Kuala Lumpur/Singapore)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Augustine Loorthusamy
President
Signis World (World Catholic Association for Communication)
Brussels, Belgium


Dr. Joe D'Mesa 
Lay Theologian
Professor of Applied Systematic Theology and a University Fellow
De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines


Rash Behari Battacharjee
Associate Editor
Edge Communications
Malaysia


Fr. Jerry Martinson, SJ
Vice President 
Kuangchi Program Service
Taipei, Taiwan


Dr. G.V.C Naidu
Professor & Chairman
Centre For South, Central, Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific Studies,
School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
New Delhi, India


Fr. Niphot Thianvihan

Director
Research and Training Center for Religio-Cultural Community (RTRC)
Chiangmai, 
Thailand


Lawrence John Sinniah
President, Signis Asia
Director, CahayaSuara Communication Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Creative Consultant, Public Media Agency (PMA), Malaysia


Prof. Shigekasu Kusune
President, Japanese-German Society, Ishikawa
Vice President, Ishikawa EU Association
Guest Professor, Open University of Japan
Professor Emeritus, University of Kanazawa, Japan


Dr. Ajay Darshan Behera
Reader, Academy of Third World Studies
Coordinator, Pakistan Studies Programme
Jamia Millia Islamia
New Delhi, India  


Dr. Ram Kumar
Punarnava Ayurveda Trust
Founder, Vaidyagramma (Sustainable Ayurvedic Healing Village)
Coimbatore, India

The Global Centre

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This site promotes the orientation, activities, resources and projects of the Centre for the Study of Sustainable Futures and Spirituality (GCSSFS). The Centre is supported in the area of content generation, project execution, design and general administration by Public Media Agency (PMA),  Petaling Jaya, Malaysia under the direct care of one of their creative consultants, Dr. M. Nadarajah (Nat). Nat works as consultant on different projects.  He supports PMA on its various projects supporting social causes. Nat is presently engaged with Xavier University@Bhubaneshwar, India, with it School of Sustainability. He works with Loyola College@Chennai, India on issues related sustainability and spirituality. He is associated with the Centre for Diaspora Studies@MSU, Tirunelveli, India. He continues to support Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP), which is based in Penang, Malaysia, as consultant on a project to set up a 'blended' institution, International People's Agroecology Multiversity (IPAM), to promote agroecology across Asia and the Pacific. He is also a member of the Asian Public Intellectual (API)  community.

GCSSFS, 2016