Bernard Marchand, Institut Français d'Urbanisme,
Université de Paris-VIII, France. Professor Marchand is
Docteur d'Etat, teaching at the Institute for Urban Planning,
Université de Paris-VIII, and Professeur Principal à
l'Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'Etat. He is also, among
others, Member of the Commission on City Networks, DATAR, Paris;
Member of the Scientific Comitee, Center for Urban Affairs, University
of Lodz, Poland; Member of the Laboratoire Recherches Interdisciplinaires
Ville Espace Société (RIVES).
Catherine Gremion, Centre de Sociologie des Organizations
(CSO), CNRS, France. Professor Gremion, recently awarded "Chevalier
de la Légion d'Honeur" by France, is Attaché
de Recherche at CNRS and Professor at l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques
de Paris, Sorbonne. She is also a member of the CSRT (Conseil
Superieur de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique), Conseiller
Scientifique at DATAR and Commissariat Géneral du Plan,
and a former Director of the CSO.
Donald Straus, College of Atlantic, USA. Professor Straus
teaches courses on participatory democracy at the College of Atlantic,
where he is also a Trustee and Chair of the Academic Policy Committee.
He is a Trustee Emeritus of the Institute for Advanced Studies
at Princeton, and a past President of the American Arbitration
Association.
Gary T. Marx, U. Colorado, USA. Professor Marx is Professor
of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Professor
Emeritus from MIT. His work has been reprinted in over 200 books
in a dozen of languages, including portuguese. He has been a research
associate at the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies and
Harvard Law School Criminal Justice Center and a fellow at the
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Melvin King, DUSP, MIT, USA. Professor King is Emeritus
Professor at MIT, Urban Studies and Planning Dept., and the founder
and Head of the Community Fellows Program, a prestiged MIT "action-and-research"
unit directed to youth and minorities community issues. He was
several years Representative to the Massachusetts State Legislature,
where he served on the Education, Health Care, and Natural Resources
Committees, and the head of many city-wide programs.
Michael Shiffer, DUSP, MIT, USA. Professor Shiffer, Dept.
of Urban Studies and Planning, is the Director of MIT Computer
Resources Lab, Architecture and Planning, and has been an active
senior research adviser in multiple exchange programs between
MIT and Portuguese Universities.
Joseph Ferreira Jr., DUSP, MIT, USA. Professor Ferreira
is the Head of the Research Cluster of Planning Support Systems
at the Dept of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, and the founder
of the Computer Resource Laboratory of the School of Architecture
and Planning at MIT. He is also the President of the Urban and
Regional Information Systems Association (URISA).
R. Timothy Sieber, Department of Antropology, University
of Massachusetts. Professor Sieber, a tenured faculty member (Associate
Professor) at the U. Mass, is also Project Director of the Ford
Foundation Diversity Research Initiative at the University of
Massachusetts, Co-President of the Society for the Anthropology
of North America, a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology,
and Chair of CITIDEP Science Council.
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