Joy Tang - President, Executive Director and Board Chair - has a MA in International Marketing Communication. At Cisco Systems she held positions in market development & sales. As a Cisco Fellow, she assisted in the development of low-income ICT program in the United States working with oneEconomy.net. In emerging markets, she aided the establishment of Teachers Without Borders. She now combines her diverse knowledge and experiences as a global community builder; connecting various multi-sector initiatives. joy@onevillagefoundation.org

Steven Chang - Director of Technology - Steven Chang is a highly trained technologist with a global perspective. He believes that experiencing different cultures is important in his quest to become a global community builder. He also has notable sales experience in IT as welll as a broad range of experiences in the IT field. Steven is inspired by OVF's Vision to serve humanity and to build community prosperity. Therefore, he has a deep commitment for the betterment of humanity that is aligned with oneVillage Foundation's goal and mission. steven@onevillagefoundation.org

Jeff Buderer - Program Development Manager - has a B.S. in Political Science with a minor in International Relations. He has worked at Arcosanti, a unique live/work experiment in architecture and urban design located in the desert of Arizona 70 miles north of Phoenix. While at Arcosanti, he studied ecological design in total immersion 4 month course organized by the Ecosa Institute. A major theme in his work is to promote an integrated approach to sustainable development. jeff@onevillagefoundation.org

Kafui Amenu, Prebbie Country Director OVF-Ghana - has a traching degree with studies in Mathematics, Physics and Educational Psychology. In 2001, he was Ghana's ICT Youth Ambassador. He sees youth development efforts aimed at a multi-sectorial approach as vital to any Information development effort (ICT4D). Towards this end, he's spearheaded various OVF efforts: Sports People That Care); the Jukwa Farmers Coop) Catch IT Young. In 2005, he was selected to represent Ghana at the Young Think Tank of the Club of Rome (tt30). kafui@onevillagefoundation.org

Olaposi Abiola - Country Director OVF Nigeria - studied electrical engineering and computer science. He has involved with several engineering associations including IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He also understands the need for cultural and religious diversity in the global village. As a OVF team member, he has highlighted the need for greater cooperation between NGO and corporate communities, to foster practical, economically viable solutions towards the development of a sustainable society for Nigeria and the world. olaposi@onevillagefoundation.org

Kennedy Odhiambo - Country Director OVF-Kenya and Conflict Resolution Coordinator - is currently working with The African Centre for Human Advocacy (ACHA) as a Peace Building and an Advocacy Officer for their South Sudan programme. He has a degree in Peace Building and Conflict Transformation Studies. For more than four years he has been involved in community peace & development initiatives in Kenya, Uganda and Southern Sudan, working with young people and facilitating youth forums geared towards addressing resource based and institutional conflicts as well as social transformation and human rights issues. Kennedy is currently working to establish and implement the organization's activities in Kenya. kennedy@onevillagefoundation.org

Professor Olu Ogunnika - Boardmember - received his PhD from the New School for Social Research in New York. He has been influenced by Professor Akiwowo's idea of a “Sociology for one world” - Akiwowo’s attempt to introduce traditional African (Yoruba) knowledge into the understanding of the complex modern industrial society. He says this will enable the people of the world to understand themselves through one language without necessarily dropping off their own particular language. The new technology in communication will therefore be of importance and benefit to the peoples of the world irrespective of place, language or culture.

Professor Akinsola Akiwowo - Boardmember & Cultural and Social Affairs Consultant - has a PhD in sociology and anthropology. After being in inspired by Professor Robert S. Hartman's theory of the Structure of Value in college, his central interest and concern has been how the science of value - axiology - could be applied to the discipline of sociology. He hopes to spend some of his remaining years exploring Dr. Hartman's assertion that axiology indeed did have a part to play in the intellectual development of sociology as a science of human society.

Erich Kohler - Boardmember, Information Technology Consultant &
Co-founder of OVF - has expertise in many areas of IT including: customer care, customer management, solution development, indirect sales and engineering. he has worked for: Philips NV, Swissair, Reuters News Agency, Digital Equipment Corporation, Novell, Cisco Systems. Most recently he worked for Swisscom, sales manager at the largest ISP Bluewin in Europe and currently works at a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom as IP Project manager. Erich provides OVF with valuable & practical experiences in IT. erich@onevillagefoundation.org

Professor George Chan - Ecological Design & Environmental Engineering Advisor - has been involved in 2 important Federal programs, at the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy, in the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). After working for several years in China at such distinguished institutions such as the China Academy of Sciences on integrated farming systems (IFS), he began working with Gunter Pauli's Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives (ZERI) taking him to nearly 80 countries. Through he developed his own version of the IFS; the Integrated Food and Waste Management System (IF&WMS). Most recently he has introduced this technology in Brazil with TECPAR (a research institute in Parana State). Because of the momentum in Brazil, he feels at least partially gratified and he is optimistic that his message of integrated farming is at least beginning to get through in some parts of the world. geolchan@intnet.mu

Mark Roest - Strategic & Sustainability Advisor - has studied planning and has experience in the alternative health care sector. He is focused on discovering, finding key patterns in, and sharing the knowledge humanity needs to live in harmony with each other and the natural world and developing this into whole systems approach to development. This includes the intelligent use of technology to meet human needs abundantly and sustainably. Mark brings a wealth of knowledge of sustainable technologies and economics to the powerful framework embodied in the oneVillage Initiative. mark@onevillagefoundation.org