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The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation
The
Simultaneous Policy (SP) started as an idea which occurred to British businessman,
John Bunzl, towards the end of 1998. The essence of the idea is a viable
technology for making the vital transition from today’s destructive global
economic competition to a new paradigm of fruitful global cooperation,
and to do so within the framework of existing national and international
institutions and political processes. This ‘technology’ is set out in brief
on this website and in more detail in Bunzl's book, The
Simultaneous Policy – An Insider’s Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet.
ISPO is presently funded by voluntary donations from SP adopters, by proceeds from sales of John Bunzl’s books and by donations from not-for-profit foundations. Neither ISPO nor any national SP organisation is permitted to accept funding from for-profit organisations. How Can I contact ISPO and How Can I Provisionally Adopt SP and Get Involved? ISPO operates a number of e-mail lists open to anyone who has provisionally adopted the Simultaneous Policy (SP). There are various lists dedicated to campaigning, SP policy formulation and general discussion. If you decide to provisionally adopt SP, you will automatically receive further details and be invited to join these lists and to become involved in campaigning for SP and creating its measures. To provisionally adopt SP, click here for our adoption form. For useful campaigning resources, visit our campaigning page. The
SP campaign is so far operating in the following countries around the world.
Please contact the National SP Campaign Coordinator in your country. If
your country is not on the following list, please contact ISPO-UK.
For general inquiries: International Simultaneous
Policy Organisation
Who are ISPO’s Principal Office-Holding Volunteers? Some
of ISPO’s Officers (Provisional) are:
Juan de Castro – National Coordinator, Spain Born in 1955, Juan de Castro presently coordinates the Spanish National Simultaneous Policy Organisation (Simpol-Espana). He is also President of the Metaeconomics Research Center (MRC) in Madrid, Spain, which is devoted to the generation of new mechanisms to drive economics towards the self-sustainable achievement of key social and environmental goals through practical solutions. Juan also coordinates the World Entrepreneurial Fund for the Elimination of Poverty (WEFEP) and its Integral Cycle Initiative (ICI). He has worked during the last 25 years in the areas of development, international trade, financial and monetary issues and the environment, and peace and reconstruction in war-stricken countries through international organizations, the private sector, the academic world and civil society. As an economist, Juan has been a permanent staff member of the United Nations Secretariat at the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, Switzerland, for more than 20 years. He was the economist of the U.N Special Peace Mission for Afghanistan of the U.N Secretary General, requested by the U.N Security Council (1994-95). He has worked as well in the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Chile and the Latin American Economic System (SELA) in Venezuela (1984-85). He is Commissioner of the Commission on Globalization of the State of the World Forum. He has widely lectured and published articles and books internationally. Georges
Drouet – National Coordinator, Belgium
Doug
Everingham – State Coordinator for Queensland, Australia
Brian
Jenkins – National Coordinator, Australia
H.A. Shankaranarayana
– National Coordinator, India
María Teresa Solano – Assistant Coordinator, Spain María Teresa Solano is presently Director of Coordination, Communication and Development at the Metaeconomics Research Center (MRC) in Madrid. Her work for ISPO involves assisting in the coordination of the Spanish National Simultaneous Policy Organisation (Simpol-Espana). María is also responsible for the coordination of activities regarding the SHIFT Project in collaboration with the Foundation for Conscious Evolution (FCE) at Santa Barbara, California. She is a research consultant for the collaboration of MRC with the Integral Governance Initiative of the State of the World Forum. She is also responsible at MRC for the development and follow-up of the international microcredit programme “Integral Cycle Initiative” (ICI) of the World Entrepreneurial Fund for the Elimination of Poverty (WEFEP). From 1975 to 1983, María was analyst of the Computing Department at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Relations. She has taught French and speaks Spanish, French, Italian and English fluently. Lucio
Martín Tato – National Coordinator, Argentina
Who are the Members of ISPO's Honourary Advisory Board? The following prominent people have agreed to serve on ISPO's Honourary Advisory Board. They have not necessarily adopted SP but are supportive of ISPO's aims and are advising on various aspects of the organisation's development. Dr. Desmond Berghofer
As an author and speaker, Desmond displays a passionate concern for the future of the planet and its citizens. His powerful first book, The Visioneers: A Courage Story about Belief in the Future, overflows with his conviction that people who understand the larger picture will care for their earthly home. He developed this value growing up in a farming family in Queensland, Australia. Desmond is a member of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO where he contributes to the sustainability agenda. His paper presented to the Commission’s Annual General Meeting in May of 2004, entitled “Creating a Knowledge Society: The Building Blocks of a New Transcendent Humanity” (www.ethicalleadership.com), has received considerable international attention. Desmond lives in Vancouver, Canada.
His e-mail address is desgerri@direct.ca.
Dr. Michael D.
Intriligator
James Robertson
After serving on British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s staff during his "Wind of Change" tour of Africa in 1960, Robertson spent three years in the Cabinet Office. Following that he became Director of inter-bank research for the big British banks. In the mid-1980s Robertson was a prominent co-founder of The Other Economic Summit (TOES) and the New Economics Foundation. In October 2003, at the XXIX annual conference of the Pio Manzu Research Centre, Rimini, Italy (closely associated with the UN), he was awarded a gold medal for his "remarkable contribution to the promotion of a new economics grounded in social and spiritual values" over the past 25 years. Diana Schumacher
In addition to the above, since the early 1970s Diana has been actively involved in the international and UK environmental movement. Her main interests are the 4 E’s – Energy, Environment, Education and Economics – all intimately connected basics of a holistic approach to sustainability. Diana serves or has served on the executive councils of over twenty-five environmental organisations, including The Environmental Action Group for Europe (ECOROPA), The Other Economic Summit (TOES) (founder member), The New Economics Foundation (founder member/trustee), The Green Alliance (executive member), The Gandhi Foundation (trustee), and The Church of England Environmental Issues Reference Panel (now defunct). She was a founder member of the Churches’ Energy Group and former patron of Christian Ecology Link (CEL). In 1981, she co-founded the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) of which she was Vice Chair until 1999, and is still very active on the Executive Council and as Vice President. In 1978 Diana became a founder member of the Schumacher Society of which she was President from 1989 to 2000. She maintains an active role as Council Member. Apart from lecturing internationally she instituted and annually donated the prestigious "Schumacher Award" for unsung heroes and heroines in the community and environment movement. Together with Lord Attenborough Diana also instituted and donated the annual UK Gandhi Peace Award. Diana is the co-founder of "Green Books", a small independent specialist publishing company under the aegis of Schumacher Society. She is also Patron of Schumacher College an innovative international think tank where she was an advisory council member during the start-up period (1991-1994). She is an active supporter of a number of other ethical and environmental organisations including the Bristol Cancer Help Centre, UK Social Investment Forum (patron) and a Council Member of the Global Women’s Network. Diana
is a frequent contributor to journals and magazines on the subjects of
energy, environment and holistic thinking, and is on the editorial board
of European Business Review
and the Warmer Bulletin.
Her own publications include Energy: Crisis or Opportunity?, Going
Solar, Solar Flatplate
Collectors for Developing Countries
and numerous anthology contributions.
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John
Bunzl – ISPO Founder, Director and National Coordinator, UK
Doug
was born in 1923. He has retired from family and hospital medical practice
and federal politics. He led or joined several peace groups, was Minister
for Health 1972-75, West Pacific regional Vice-President of the 1975 WHO
Assembly, represented Australia and New Zealand at the 1982 meeting of
International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, and spoke against
apartheid at the 1982 UN General Assembly as parliamentary adviser to the
Australian delegation. In 1999-2000 he was appointed by the Foreign Affairs
and Trade Minister to the National Consultative Committee on Peace and
Disarmament.Much of Doug's time is spent digesting, relaying and responding
to e-mails concerning world governance and simplified English as a world
language. He has three children and seven grandchildren.
Born
in 1978, I am a computer specialist with a keen interest in history and
international relations. It was at the age of 18 during a visit to Senegal
that I first became aware of the injustices of our world, particularly
between peoples of North and South. Since then, I have been campaigning
for greater justice, truth and environmental protection in our world and
for a limiting of transnational corporate power. Simpol strikes me as a
realistic solution - ambitious and yet full of hope - which merits maximum
support. Simpol-France intends to act as the hub for promoting Simpol in
the French-speaking world, for building stronger links between Africa and
exploited parts of Asia and with the western world, and for achieving a
more equitable and responsable mode of development.
Diana
Jewell became Western Canada Coordinator for ISPO in 2000 and National
Coordinator in 2003. Born in 1940 in rural British Columbia, she has a
BA in English from the University of British Columbia and an MA in Russian
Literature and Slavic Linguistics from the University of Colorado. She
taught English and Russian at colleges and universities, and traveled extensively
all over the former Soviet Union. Diana became an activist in 1990, served
as President of EarthSave Canada and founded EarthSave Toastmasters.
Cynthia
Josayma – National Coordinator, United States
Born
in 1979, Omondi George is the founding Director of the Centre for Direct
Democracy (CDD), a national NGO in Kenya concerned with citizen participation in
policy-making and governance processes. George is also on the boards of many
youth organizations in Kenya and in the East African region and was at the
inaugural sitting of the African Youth Parliament (AYP) in 2003. He holds a
Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
where he proceeded for studies after being suspended from the University of
Nairobi in 1999 owing to his activist agitation against the privatization of
higher education in Kenya. He was then the Secretary-General of both the
Students’ Organization of Nairobi University (S.O.N.U.) and the Kenya National
Students’ Union (K.E.N.A.S.U). Though he was not in total opposition to the
introduction of ‘private streams’ in the Kenyan universities, George argued that
such expansion in student population should be accompanied by commensurate
expansion of physical facilities and human resources; otherwise the quality of
education would be greatly compromised. These reasonable thoughts could not be
accommodated by the Ministry responsible for Education and his suspension
alongside other student leaders was decreed by the highest office in the land:
the presidency.
I
am a professor and programme director at the Acharya Institute of Management
Sciences, Bangalore (
Brian
Wills – Newsletter Editor
Desmond
Berghofer, Ph.D., is President of Creative Learning International (
Michael
D. Intriligator, Ph.D, is Professor of Economics at the University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA). He is also Professor of Political Science, Professor
of Policy Studies in the School of Public Policy and Social Research, and
Co-Director of the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics
in the Behavioral Sciences, all at UCLA. He is also a Senior Fellow of
the Milken Institute in Santa Monica. He has been a member of the UCLA
faculty since 1963, teaching courses in economic theory, econometrics,
mathematical economics, international relations, and health economics,
and he has received several distinguished teaching awards.
John
Roberts is Professor Emeritus of International Studies, New England College,
Chair of the Institute for Law and Peace and the former Chair of One World
Trust. He is the author of World Citizenship and Mundialism and
a dozen federalist pamphlets on current affairs. British and Canadian (taught
at Laval University Quebec), John was a member of the Council of the World
Federalist Movement for 30 years and the Executive Chair from 1970 to 1972.
A former magistrate, he is also a joint founder of (Southern) Veteran-Cycle
Club and the author of Devon and the Armada. 
An
Oxford-educated writer and speaker on monetary and economic affairs, 
Diana
Schumacher has read History at Oxford University, worked for the British
Council in the London HQ in the Education division and subsequently for
the University of Chicago’s Department of Business Studies. In 1979, together
with her husband, she set up Schumacher Projects partnership, a management
and environmental consultancy. She is now also a non-executive director
of Work Structuring Limited, a company founded by her husband focused on
organisational renewal and the creation of ’whole’ work systems.