PETER ALEXANDER

A traditional private practice Landscape Architect for over 30 years Peter Alexander graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with degrees in Architecture and Landscape Architecture. He was selected as a President’s Fellow at R.I.S.D. His practice benefits from his previous degree in History and Biology from the University of Denver and continuing post-graduate studies at Harvard and Rutgers.
 
A lifelong resident of Greenwich Connecticut an avid outdoorsman he is dedicated to preserving, protecting and experiencing the earth’s wonders. His studio in Aspen, Colorado helps to give him a different perspective than New England. Completed and planned projects range from perennial gardens to regional planning.
 
As host of Town Green radio show he created a venue for non-partisan dialogue regarding our earth’s future. The town green was an essential element during the period of settlement of the U.S. Pilgrims and Puritans agreed that having an area to gather, converse and plan the future would help create a vital connection to dispersed settlers. Now with 300 million in population a venue to discuss community planning is important.
 
In May 1991 Peter Alexander was part of a team that visited all the countries in the Danube River Watershed. These former member states of the Soviet Union were widely criticized for having large environmental problems. Supported by the Department of State and the Commerce Department the findings and report were not well received by Congress.
 
This introduction to politically-driven environmental agendas has inspired Mr. Alexander to carefully study reports and conclusions. His recent involvement at the UN Habitat Day and the APA Federal Policy & Program Briefing in Washington, D.C. re enforces that perspective.
 
Professional accreditation: Full Member American Society of Landscape Architects; American Planning Association; State licenses CT, MD, NY, NJ; Remote Sensing & G. I. S. Analyst for Environmental Systems Research Institute. Notable Projects include: Olympic Training Center, Lake Placid; Stonington Connecticut, Coastal Plan; Coral Creek Community Placida, Florida; 14 golf course & 6 ski area commissions; Europe Environmental Response 1991; Coastal Zone Management Conferences participant Town of Greenwich Historic District Commission (past Chairman). www.towngreenonline.com  
 

DENNIS MULLIN

A veteran White House, State Department and foreign correspondent, Dennis Mullin is President and Editor-in-Chief of Mullin Communications Inc., which writes and publishes www.continentaldivide.us and produced until recently Japan Now, the monthly publication of the Embassy of Japan in Washington, the monthly Cyprus Newsletter for the Cyprus Embassy, and China 2000, a monthly publication on U.S.-China relations distributed throughout the United States and in Europe on behalf of a large international investment bank.  
 
In 1987, Mr. Mullin left U.S. News & World Report as Chief White House Correspondent, to establish Mullin Communications.  In 1985-86, he held the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, which is endowed by CBS News and awarded annually to one outstanding American foreign correspondent.  Prior to winning the Murrow Fellowship, Mr. Mullin served as U.S. News' Washington-based State Department correspondent and traveling troubleshooter, and was the Mideast Bureau Chief, based in Beirut from 1975 to 1981.
 
Among his assignments were:  The Lebanese civil war; the war on the Horn of Africa; the Iranian revolution and fall of the Shah; the Iran-Iraq War, the invasion of Grenada; the Falklands War and the petro-dollar boom.  He has interviewed the Shah of Iran; King Hussein of Jordan; Saddam Hussein of Iraq; King Fahd of Saudi Arabia; Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres of Israel; the Palestine Liberation Organization's Yasser Arafat, the Sultan of Oman and President, Glafcos Clerides of Cyprus, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines and many cabinet-level officials around the world.
 
Prior to joining U.S. News, Mr. Mullin covered the Vietnam War for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the South China Morning Post Co. in Hong Kong.  He started his career covering Congress and the Pentagon for the Federal Times and the Navy Times.  Mr. Mullin holds a B.A. in Journalism (Dean's List) from The George Washington University and attended graduate seminars at Columbia University.  He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Orange County Register, The Christian Science Monitor, The Sacramento Bee and numerous other publications and has appeared on television and written scripts for talk shows and speeches for notable clients. In his capacity as President he continues to maintain his top level contacts around the world.  

BILL RIFE

Bill has extensive experience as a Computer Software Human Resources Consultant, foreign and English Language Instructor and Curriculum Developer in the U.S.and overseas. He worked for three years as a Technical English and French Language Instructor with ARAMCO (Arabian-American Oil Co.) in Saudi Arabia, and also served for three years in the U.S. Army in Heidelberg, Germany. He holds a BA from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, with undergraduate work at The American University of Cairo, Egypt, and the University of Oslo, Norway. Graduate studies include one year at L'Institut d'Etudes Politique (Sciences Po), Paris, France, and two years of Western European Area Studies at American University, Washington, D.C. He worked closely with all major Software Houses, Hardware Manufacturers, Vendors, Consulting Firms, Developers and Dot.Coms. Bill has also been a Professional Language Instructor, teaching English as a foreign language (TOFEL), in addition to French, German, and Norwegian. He also has a working knowledge of Egyptian and Saudi Arabic. He previously spent several months doing anthropometric research in Kenya, Uganda, The Congo, and Zanizibar.