Who we are
Simpol and The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO)
Who we are
Simpol and The International Simultaneous
Policy Organisation (ISPO)
What
are Simpol, SP and ISPO?
Who started SP?
How are ISPO and national SP organisations
incorporated?
Who Funds Them?
How can I contact ISPO and how can
I provisionally adopt SP and get involved?
Who are ISPO’s principal office-holding
volunteers?
Who are the members of ISPO's honourary
advisory board?
Simpol is the shorthand expression for the organisations that promote the Simultaneous Policy (SP).
SP refers to the Simultaneous Policy, the package of measures to be implemented by all governments simultaneously to address global problems. SP also refers to the adoption campaign, the political process to secure the policy’s implementation.
Anyone can become involved in the campaign by signing up as an SP Adopter, which is free of charge. The policy content of SP is discussed, developed and ultimately approved by Adopters. In each country Adopters elect a Policy Committee to oversee this process.
At national level, national Simultaneous Policy organisations (NSPOs) in each country provide information, resources and support to Adopters for promoting the campaign and for developing the policy content of SP. Each NSPO is accountable to a Board of Trustees elected by its members. Adopters can become members, usually by paying a fee and members agree to accept the organisation’s Founding Declaration.
At international level, the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) co-ordinates the SP campaign and facilitates the formulation of SP’s policy content at the global level. ISPO is accountable to its NSPO members who agree to accept ISPO’s Founding Declaration.
The Simultaneous Policy (SP) started as an idea
which occurred to British businessman, John Bunzl, towards the end of 1998.
It was developed and published in the book The
Simultaneous Policy – An Insider’s Guide to Saving Humanity and
the Planet in 2001.
How are ISPO and national SP organisations incorporated?
The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) is presently an informal, non-profit umbrella organisation which oversees all national Simultaneous Policy organisations (NSPOs) and supports their activities. ISPO is controlled by its members who are the NSPOs. National Coordinators usually participate directly in ISPO wherever a formal NSPO has not yet been incorporated.
The Founding Declaration of Simpol-UK explains more
about the principles of NSPOs and their relationship to ISPO. As Simpol’s
international network grows ISPO’s organisational structure, operation
and responsibilities will be developed by its NSPO members.
ISPO and NSPOs are presently funded by voluntary donations from SP Adopters, by proceeds from sales of John Bunzl’s book and other books published by ISPO and by grants from not-for-profit foundations. Neither ISPO nor NSPOs are 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 fora open to anyone who has provisionally adopted the Simultaneous Policy (SP). There are various fora dedicated to campaigning, SP policy formulation, general discussion and to other more specialized topics. Fora operate in a number of languages. If you decide to adopt SP, you will automatically receive further details and be invited to join these fora. You will also be invited to become involved in campaigning for SP and in developing its policy measures. To adopt SP, click on the Adopt button on the left. For useful campaigning resources, visit the Books & Resources page.
For general enquiries please contact:
International
Simultaneous Policy Organisation
P.O. Box 26547, London SE3 7YT, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20-8464 4141 Fax: +44 (0)20-8460 2035
info@simpol.org
Who are ISPO’s
principal office-holding volunteers?
Mike Brady
– National Contact, Brazil
Mike Brady has taken on the role as National Contact for Brazil until a national
Adopter comes forward to replace the past coordinator, who sadly passed away.
Mike spends time in Brazil as his wife is Brazilian. Mike, who is 41, has worked
in Malawi and Africa both as an engineer and a science teacher and for the past
10 years has been Campaigns Coordinator at a small NGO, running one of the best
known consumer campaigns. Mike set up the first SP Adopters’ Group in
Cambridge in 2003, organising a series of policy fora and signing up the first
UK candidate and Member of Parliament in support of SP. Mike has been both an
elected Trustee and member of the Management Board of Simpol-UK and is currently
the Chair of the elected Simpol-UK Policy Committee. As well as promoting SP
through grassroots campaigning, including theatre, Mike pursues new technology
routes, such as Second Life and internet radio.
John
Bunzl – ISPO Founder, Trustee and Coordinator
John initiated the SP concept in 1998 and since founded the International Simultaneous
Policy Organisation (ISPO) to campaign for the adoption of SP around the world.
He is author of The Simultaneous Policy
- An Insider's Guide to Saving Humanity and the Planet, has given lectures
and workshops on SP to many conferences, including to the World Trade Organisation,
the World Social Forum and the Schumacher Society. Apart from being an activist,
he is also a company director of a business specialising in raw materials and
speciality papers. He was born in 1957 in London.
Maria
Ehrling – National Coordinator, Sweden.
Human Resource Coordinator, ISPO
Maria is a human resources and business risk management specialist. She has
a long-standing interest in peace and democracy. She manages ISPO's human resource
function.
Brian
Jenkins – National Coordinator, Australia
Brian is a writer with a past career in marketing and PR for private and public
sector corporations in Sydney and Perth. In the 1980s, he helped build a minor
political party, the Australian Democrats, for whom his wife, Jean became a
federal senator. Since 1997, Brian has coordinated campaigns against unsustainable
trade policies of the OECD (MAI), WTO, WEF, IMF and World Bank. In 1999, he
helped the Westminster UNAA and One World Trust to launch Charter 99, a charter
for global democracy.
UK-born in 1940, Brian emigrated to Australia in 1954. (More details at members.iinet.net.au/
~jenks/pcv.html).
Cynthia
Josayma – National Contact, United States
Cynthia Josayma is Principal of Bridgings Associates, a consultancy company
specializing in connecting interactive technologies with collaborative planning
techniques to enhance public and private decision-making. Ms. Josayma has worked
on local to global environmental policy issues for over 15 years with a core
emphasis on developing innovative conflict management and multifunctional assessment
tools for managing public natural resources. She has organized and spoken at
numerous international conferences, including the World Trade Organization,
World Forestry Congress, World Affairs Council, World Bank, World Resources
Institute, Public Interest Law Conference, East-West Center (Hawaii) and the
University of California at Berkeley. Clients and partner organizations include
the UN/FAO, Rome, Forestry Policy & Planning; USDA, International Forestry;
numerous NGOs, and ministries of environment in countries across Asia, including
China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Philippines, as well
as in the U.S., Latin America and Canada.
Olivier
Penant – National Coordinator, France
Born in 1959, Olivier lives in Paris and is bilingual in French and English.
He is a consultant graphic designer, and has for five years been an active campaigner
and telephone counsellor for an AIDS charity. Very worried by the increasing
problems which threaten the planet, he found in Simpol the best opportunity
to use those skills for a better future.
H.A.
Shankaranarayana – National Coordinator, India
I am a professor and programme director at the Acharya Institute of Management
Sciences, Bangalore (www.acharyainstitutions.org and www.acharyaims.ac.in).
I have a masters degree in economics, and my Ph.D. in business administration
is in its final stages. I am a member of the International Society for Third
Sector Research (ISTR), John Hopkins, and a founder-member of the Third Sector
Research Interest Group (India), Mysore. I have produced a status paper titled
"THIRD SECTOR IN KARNATAKA - A STATUS PAPER," funded by the Ford Foundation.
Karnataka state is a federal entity of the union of India with a population
of 50 million about the size of Germany. I was invited by TRADCO, a trading
organisation, to undertake a Europen Union study involving countries like Germany,
France, Switzerland, Italy and Austria. The study was concerned with the role
of social capital in international trade.
Hugh
Steadman – National Coordinator, New Zealand
Hugh Steadman is a graduate of the RMA Sandhurst and holds a degree in Politics
and International Relations. Having resigned from the army, he started a business
in York which he sold in 1984. He then emigrated with his family to New Zealand,
where he established a food processing business. In the wake of the recent invasion
of Iraq, he withdrew from the family firm and founded the Sapiens Movement as
New Zealand's only lobby group advocating the surrender of a portion of national
sovereignty to a global system of democratic governance. Having studied all
the other movements around the world, which are working towards this end, Hugh
decided that Simpol represented the most immediate practicable possibility of
success. He therefore approached Simpol International with the suggestion that
he should help establish a New Zealand affiliate. Simpol-NZ was incorporated
as a registered society towards the end of 2006 and Hugh is acting as temporary
Chief Executive during its start up phase. Hugh has retained an interest in
Middle Eastern affairs from his military service and runs a Website dealing
with the problem of finding peace between Palestinians and Israelis. He also
writes professionally on matters relating to defence and international relations.
Diana Trimble – Campaign Outreach Coordinator UK
Diana is a writer and musician who began her political activism as a teenager in the USA and has continued since moving back to the UK, where she was born. She has a BA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University and a Master’s degree from the Naropa Institute, focusing on comparative religion and ecology. Her thesis, for which she conducted ethnographic research in the Brazilian Amazon, was the 2002 recipient of the William James Award from the Council on Spiritual Practices. Google her name to find articles. Previously she has worked for the United Nations Association of San Francisco, Earthlight Magazine of spiritual ecology, and the Green Century Institute as well as writing and ghost-writing numerous articles on women’s rights, human rights, freedom of religion and drug law reform, for publication on various websites and in journals. She has also spoken at and participated in International conferences focusing on these topics and currently performs fiercely funny satirical poetry under the moniker MC Hazard-to-the-Status-Quo.
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
Desmond Berghofer, Ph.D., is President of Creative Learning International (www.creative-learning.ca),
a consulting firm in leadership and the creative management of change in Vancouver,
Canada. He is also the co-founder of the Institute for Ethical Leadership and
Chair of the Gulf Islands Centre for Ecological Learning. His professional career
includes 11 years, from 1977 to1988, as Assistant Deputy Minister of Advanced
Education with the Government of Alberta. He has represented Canada internationally
through the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada, and the United Nations
Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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
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.
Dr. Intriligator received his undergraduate S.B. degree in Economics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959; his M.A. degree at Yale University
in 1960, where he was the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship; and his
Ph.D. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963.
Dr. Intriligator is the author of more than 200 journal articles and other publications
in the areas of economic theory and mathematical economics, econometrics, health
economics, reform of the Russian economy, and strategy and arms control, his
principal research fields.
Dr. Intriligator is Vice Chair and a member of the Board of Directors of Economists
Allied for Arms Reductions and was President of the Peace Science Society (International)
in 1993. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Economic Directions, Defence and
Peace Economics, and Conflict Management and Peace Science. He is a Fellow of
the Econometric Society, a Senior Fellow of the Gorbachev Foundation of North
America, and an elected member of both the Council on Foreign Relations (New
York) and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London).
Dr.
José Ramos-Horta
Born in 1949, Dr. José Ramos-Horta is the Foreign Minister of East Timor.
In 1996, he was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his outstanding contribution
to the liberation of East Timor. The Nobel Committee cited Dr. Horta as "the
leading international spokesman for East Timor's cause since 1975." He
is also the winner of the Leitzman Award and a recipient of honourary doctorates
from many universities.
Dr. Horta is an accomplished public speaker and communicator in English, French,
Portugese and Tetin, the language of East Timor. His decisive role in securing
independence for East Timor after years of advocacy at all levels marks Dr.
Horta out as an exemplar of inclusive and non-sectoral leadership.
John
Roberts
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.
James
Robertson
An Oxford-educated writer and speaker on monetary and economic affairs, James
Robertson has been acclaimed as "the leading new economics writer in the
UK." His best-known book is probably The Sane Alternative: A Choice of
Futures (1978, 1983). Other books include Future Work: Jobs, Self-Employment
and Leisure after the Industrial Age (1985), Future Wealth: A New Economics
for the 21st Century (1990), Transforming Economic Life: A Millennial Challenge
(1998), A New Economics of Sustainable Development (a Briefing for the European
Commission) (2000), and Creating New Money: A Monetary Reform for the Information
Age (co-authored with Joseph Huber) (2000). His latest book, Monetary
Reform — Making it Happen! (coauthored with ISPO Founder and Director,
John Bunzl) (2004) has been praised as "a brilliant treatment of a question
which has never been so urgent" by Guardian columnist and author, George
Monbiot.
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
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.
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.