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Brian Payne is the President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union of Canada, with over 150,000 members.

Debi Barker is Co-Director of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), a research and educational alliance comprised of over sixty researchers, activists, economists, and scholars from thirty countries.

John Cavanagh is director of the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies and vice president of the International Forum on Globalization. During his days as an economist at the UN Conference on Trade and Development, and the World Health Organization, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, John saw first-hand the formulation of policies that led to the phenomenon we now call globalization. Since that time, Cavanagh has co-authored 10 books on international trade, debt, and development, and contributed articles to Foreign Policy, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Nation. John holds a Master's degree in public affairs from Princeton University, and his books include Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order (with Richard J. Barnet); A Field Guide to the Global Economy (with Sarah Anderson and Thea Lee); and Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines (with Robin Broad). He co-chairs the Civil Society Committee of the United Nations Development Program.

Lori Wallach -- a trade lawyer, author, and director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch -- is one of the best known and most vocal critics of many of the trade agreements associated with globalization. Wallach is the co-author (with Michael Sforza) of Whose Trade Organization?: Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy (Public Citizen, 1999). Wallach has written numerous articles and analyses on trade. Her comments about trade have been broadcast on CNN, ABC, CNBC, CSPAN, All Things Considered, and the News Hour with Jim Lehrer. In 1993, Wallach founded the Citizens Trade Campaign. She is a founding board member of the International Forum on Globalization.

Dr. Caroline Lucas was elected as one of the Green Party’s first MEPs to the European Parliament in June 1999. She serves as a member of Committee for Trade, Industry, Energy and Research; and Committee for Regional Policy and Transport. Dr. Lucas joined the Green Party in 1986 and has held many positions including national press officer, co-chair, and national speaker. She has made numerous television and radio appearances and is the author of numerous books including Stopping the Great Food Swap: Relocalising Europe’s Food Supply (2001), Watchful in Seattle: World Trade Organisation threats to Public Services, Food and the Environment (1999), The Euro or a Sustainable Future for Britain? A Green Critique of the Single Currency (2000) with Mike Woodin, the Green Party’s Report: Act Local, Act Global: Greening the EU—The Challenge to Globalisation, among others. With a background of research and policy analysis on trade, development, and environment issues, Dr. Lucas has written extensively on trade issues, and is an acknowledged expert on globalization and is an advisory board member of the Protect the Local, Globally think-tank.

Sara Larrain is co-founder of the Chilean national political party, the Partido Alternative de Cambio. She also coordinates the Chilean Ecological Action Network, founded the Chilean office of Greenpeace International and was the leading independent candidate in the 1999 Chilean presidential election. Larrian’s top priority is to expose the people of Chile, Latin America, and the world to the reality of the neoliberal development model as manifest in the Chilean experience. With long experience in the peace, human rights and environmental movements Larrain has seen and criticized the model from numerous points of view. After years of working on single issue campaigns, she has concluded that single issue victories really change very little so long as the development model itself remains intact, and is working to accomplish this through Chile Sustenable and as a board member of the International Forum on Globalization.

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Maude Barlow is the national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, Canada¹s largest public advocacy organization with over 100,000 members. She is a board member with the International Forum on Globalization and co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, an international civil society movement to stop the commodification of water. Maude is the recipient of honourary doctorates from Memorial University in Newfoundland and the University of Victoria in British Columbia and the best selling author or co-author of 14 books. Her latest, with Tony Clarke, is Blue Gold: The Battle to Stop Corporate Theft of the World’s Water and has been published in 15 countries and in 10 languages.

Internationally acclaimed as one of the most passionate and articulate critics of globalization, Vandana Shiva is a physicist, philosopher of science and an indefatigable activist. In 1982, Shiva left her job as scientific researcher at the Indian Institute of Management to found the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy where she now serves as director. In 1991 she founded Navdanya, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seeds. In 1993 she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for her pioneering insights into the social and environmental costs of the dominant development model, and her ability to work with local communities in the articulation and implementation of alternatives. Vandana is also Science and Environment advisor to the Third World Network and the Asia Pacific People's Network, and associate editor of The Ecologist. She was also named one of the top five most powerful people in Asia by Asia Week magazine. Shiva's books include Water Wars; Monoculture of the Mind: Biotechnology and the Environment; Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply; and Biopiracy: the Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. She is the author of over 300 papers in leading scientific and technical journals.