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Biographical Summaries

GVI Board Members and Science Advisors:
(Click on a member’s name to view a short biographical summary)

Directors:

Barbara A. Anselmo, MBA
Tampa, Florida


George S. Cowan, Ph.D.
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Vice President of GVI

Myron S. Karasik, MSEE, MBA
Cathedral City, California


Andrew Kulpa, JD, MBA

Butzel Long, Detroit
Secretary - Treasurer of GVI

Joseph B. McCarthy, MS, MBA
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Resident Manager of GVI


Tim Reardon, Ph.D.
Telemedicine Resource Center
University of Michigan Medical Center

Paul R. Williamson, Ph.D.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
President of GVI


Science Advisory Panel:

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Ph.D.
Julius Silver Professor of Politics
New York University /
Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution Stanford University

Henk Houweling, Ph.D.
Professor of Political, Social and Cultural Sciences
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Solomon W. Polachek, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Economics
SUNY Binghamton, New York

J. David Singer, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
The University of Michigan

Phillip C. Wall, Ph.D., MCSE
Sacramento, California

Francis W. Wayman, Jr., Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
The University of Michigan

 

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Barbara Anselmo | PDF Symbol View Resume as PDF
Barbara Anselmo is Training Supervisor, St. Petersburg (Florida) Police Department. Her interests center on marketing, communications and management. She holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. Her experience includes more than 10 years in supervisory positions; extensive experience preparing and presenting educational sessions for community leaders and company staff; planning, writing and managing marketing data bases, materials and campaigns; budget preparation; handling media relations; and advertising, technical and news writing. Ms. Anselmo is a Member, Board of Directors of Global Vision, Inc.

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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | PDF Symbol View Resume as PDF
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita holds dual appointments as Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University and as Julius Silver Professor of Politics, New York University. In addition, he is: Director, Center for Conflict Resolution and Multilateral Cooperation at NYU; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and past president, International Studies Association. The focus of his interest is to develop computational rational decision models and to apply them to problems in private and public organizations, in national development, and in global politics. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan; is the author of many books, articles, and papers, scholarly and popular; and has more than 30 years of experience in research and teaching in public policy, international relations, and quantitative research methods. Professor Bueno de Mesquita is a Member, Scientific Advisory Panel of Global Vision, Inc.

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George Cowan | PDF Symbol View Resume as PDF
George S. Cowan has taught and worked in the area of software engineering, industrial simulation, and machine learning for over 30 years. He recently retired from a position as Senior Principal Scientist at Pfizer Global Research and Development, where he developed programs that learned to predict the biological activity of proposed new compounds. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Wayne State University, where his program of study was Knowledge-Based Software Engineering, and an M.S. in Operations Research from Illinois Institute of Technology. Dr. Cowan serves as Vice President of Global Vision, Inc.

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Henk W. Houweling | View Resume (external link)
Henk W. Houweling is Associate professor ('Universitair Hoof Docent') of International Relations, Department of Political Science, University Of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In addition he is: Member, International Advisory Board, Journal of Conflict Resolution; Member of the Daily Board of the Amsterdam School of International Relations; Professor of International Relations, Webster University, Leyden, Netherlands; and is a former Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His interests center on the study of international conflict and conflict resolution, and of global politics, with emphasis on data-based quantitative methods. He holds a Ph.D. (cum laude) in Political Science from the University of Leyden; is the author of numerous books, articles and papers; and has more than 35 years of experience in research and teaching in the areas of his interest. Professor Houweling is a Member, Scientific Advisory Panel of Global Vision, Inc.

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Myron Karasik | PDF Symbol View Resume as PDF
Myron Karasik is an independent management consultant. The focus of his interest is to develop computational models and to apply them to public and private strategic planning. He holds an M.S. (and all but dissertation for Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering (Computer & Control Systems) from Purdue University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from Northwestern University; is a CPA; is the author of several scholarly articles and papers; and has over ten years of CIO experience and another 15 as a professional certified management consultant, specializing in strategic systems development and deployment. Mr. Karasik is a Member, Scientific Advisory Panel of Global Vision, Inc.

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Joe McCarthy | PDF Symbol View Resume as PDF
Joseph B. McCarthy is founder and President of McCarthy Healthcare Consulting LLC, a health care management consulting practice specializing in business strategy for health care and other non-profit organizations. Immediately prior, he was Chief Planning Officer for Saint Joseph Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Experience includes six years as a health care strategy consultant with top-tier national firms, followed by over 20 years senior-level experience with leading hospitals and hospital systems in various markets across the U.S. He holds an MBA in marketing from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, an M.S. in health planning from UCLA, and a B.S. in marketing from the University of Illinois. He recently served as Lecturer in health planning at Eastern Michigan University. Mr. McCarthy is a Member, Board of Directors of Global Vision, Inc.

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Solomon Polachek | View Resume (external link)
Solomon William Polachek is Distinguished Professor of Economics with joint appointment in Political Science, at State University of New York, Binghamton. In addition, he is: Editor of Research in Labor Economics; and Coeditor of Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy; past president, Peace Science Society International; and is listed in Who's Who in Economics and Who’s Who in America, and ...in Finance and Industry, among other directories. His interests include: labor economics, including human capital theories of income distribution and public policy implications; health economics; econometrics; and international relations. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University; is the author of many articles and papers; and has more than 35 years of experience in research and teaching in the areas of his interest. Professor Polachek is Vice President and a Member, Board of Directors of Global Vision, Inc.

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David Singer | PDF Symbol View Resume as PDF
J. David Singer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In addition: he is founder of the Correlates of War project and Director at its University of Michigan location; past president, International Studies Association; and he is listed in Who's Who in America and ...in the World, among other directories. The focus of his interest is the quantitative data-based study of world politics, and of international conflict and war prevention; in which study he is widely recognized as a preeminent founder. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from New York University; is the author of many books, articles, and papers; and has more than 50 years of experience in research and teaching in the areas of his interest. Professor Singer is a Member, Scientific Advisory Panel of Global Vision, Inc.

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Phillip Wall | PDF Symbol View Resume as PDF
Phillip C. Wall is an independent consultant living in Sacramento, California. His interests include American government; political, social and criminological theory; constitutional law/jurisprudence; criminal justice; and international relations. The focus of his interest is application of quantitative modeling techniques of public policy and administration, in the above areas. He holds a Ph.D. in government from Claremont Graduate University and an M.A. in Social Science from California State University, Los Angeles; is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer; is the author of many articles and papers, scholarly and popular; and has more than 25 years of experience in research and teaching in the areas of his interest. Dr. Wall is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of Global Vision, Inc.

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Paul Williamson | PDF Symbol View Resume as PDF
Paul R. Williamson is founder and President of Global Vision, Inc. In addition, he is: a Grant Recipient, for research in global forecasting techniques, from Stanford University. The focus of his interest is to develop computational global models and to apply them to public and private strategic planning, and to world politics and history. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Hawaii and a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Michigan; is the author of many articles and papers, scholarly and popular; and has more than 35 years of experience in research and teaching in economics, public policy, international relations, and quantitative research methods.

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