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OUR MISSION
To provide medical and healthcare information, education and communications in developing and war-affected regions.
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WiRED International's Governing Board is a distinguished group of communications and business professionals who give generously of their time and money to make this work a success.
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Biographies: WiRED Board Members
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Senator William E. Brock is founder and senior partner of The Brock Offices, a consulting firm specializing in international trade, investment and human resources. He was a Member of Congress from Tennessee's Third District (1963 to 1971), then a Member of the U.S. Senate from Tennessee(1971-1977). Senator Brock was the Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1977 - 1980), U.S. Trade Representative from 1981 to 1985--acting as the President's chief trade policy adviser and international trade negotiator--and he was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1985-1987.
Senator Brock's kudos and accomplishments are many. To name a few: He was recognized (by The Financial Times of London, along with three others) as a principal 'father' of the Uruguay Round of Trade Negotiations and the World Trade Organization (WTO). He co-created The Eminent Persons Group of senior cabinet level Ministers from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, to pursue the cause of global trade liberalization. Senator Brock initiated the first free trade agreements ever negotiated by the United States, first with Israel, then Canada, and the Nations of the Caribbean basin. He founded the Quad Forum, a quarterly informal meeting of the Trade Ministers of Europe, Japan, Canada, and the United States. He sponsored the landmark study of workforce and workplace trends in a global economy entitled Work Force 2000.
Senator Brock co-chaired the National Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce and its widely heralded report, "America's Choice, High Skills or Low Wages." He chaired the Wingspread Group on Higher Education and published "An American Imperative, Higher Expectations for Higher Education." Senator Brock is one of the four founders of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), serving as its chair from 1988-1991.
A true humanitarian, Senator Brock is highly active in national and international affairs. He is a recipient of the highest tribute and recognition for "outstanding life achievement in advancing human development" from the National Academy of Human Resources. He also serves on the boards of a number of philanthropic educational and economic institutions, WiRED International now included. Senator Brock is currently the Chairman of the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council, Senior Counselor for and Trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, and Trustee of the Committee for Economic Development. From 2002 to 2004 he was co-chair of the U.S.-Canadian Partnership for Growth and Senior Advisor to Council for a Community of Democracies.
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Stephen Browning served as the Director of Programs, South Pacific Region, US Army Corps of Engineers. As one of three civilians to enter Baghdad after U.S. troops arrived in April 2003, Mr. Browning spent ten months in Iraq, while acting as the Senior Advisor/Acting Minister for Ministries of Health, of Transportation and Communications, of Electricity, of the Environment, and of Religious Affairs and as the Director of Infrastructure for the Coalition Provisional Authority. Mr. Browning credits the prevention of the spread of disease and the restoration of electricity to its prewar level as among the most rewarding achievements of his team's tenure in Iraq. In early 2003, while serving in Baghdad, Mr. Browning and Dr. Gary Selnow, Executive Director of WiRED, collaborated on ways to use information technology to assist in the development and reconstruction of the Iraqi health care system. Mr. Browning was impressed with the immediate and positive results of WiRED's use of IT to enhance medical information systems in Iraq's medical schools and teaching hospitals.
Prior to Mr. Browning's service in Iraq, he was deployed to New York City where he served as the senior defense official on scene overseeing emergency response in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks. He also served as the Federal Technical Lead for Hurricane Mitch Recovery and Redevelopment.
After two decades of public service, he left the Corps of Engineers in 2006 to join MWH Global, an international environmental engineering firm headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. Browning currently serves as Vice President and Global Strategic Planning Officer for MWH and will soon be relocating with his family to Boulder.
A registered professional engineer, Mr. Browning holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Engineering and is a graduate of the Senior Executive Fellows Program at Harvard University. Mr. Browning enjoys kayaking and triathlons. Steve and his wife, Marie, are parents of Colette Rainier Browning.
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In practice for over 38 years, the Honorable Sheldon S. Cohen is a senior partner of Cohen & Goldstein, Esqs., LLP. He advises clients on family and matrimonial law matters, commercial and business organization and transactions. Mr. Cohen is also general counsel to both domestic and foreign small businesses.
A graduate of New York University's School of Commerce (1956) and New York University's School of Law (1959), Mr. Cohen is also a long-standing member of the Bar Associations of New York State and New York City, and the New York County Lawyers Association.
Mr. Cohen is the youngest person ever to serve as Chief Counsel and later Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service; positions he held for five years starting at age 37 during the Johnson administration. His accomplishments span more than fifty years as a Washington, D.C. tax attorney. He is a lecturer at various tax institutions and universities across the United States, and he served as the keynote speaker at a United Nations conference on Tax Administration in Developing Countries. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America; Who's Who in American Law, and is a member of the American College of Tax Law and The American Law Institute.
Furthermore, Mr. Cohen is active in a number of organizations. He is the former chairman of the Board of Trustees of George Washington University, past chairman of the American Jewish Historical Society, and current treasurer of The Supreme Court Historical Society. He also co-chaired the Mayor's Transition Committee to Review the Department of Finance and Revenue in the District of Columbia during 1994-95.
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Dr. Crano currently serves as Vice President for Strategic Planning and Institutional Effectiveness at Western University, a graduate university of medical sciences in Pomona, California. After earning her Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration/Student Personnel in 1984 from Michigan State University, Dr. Crano served in administrative roles at Texas A&M University, The George Washington University, The University of Arizona, State of Michigan Department of Higher Management Systems and Wyeth Laboratories, Inc.
Not satisfied by underwriting WiRED’s VideoVisit program, which enables families to communicate with their children undergoing life-saving medical treatment in western countries, Dr. Crano helped coordinate the launch from a children’s cancer ward in the Hospital of Pisa. Her role as a WiRED director enables her to continue a lifelong passion of helping people rebuild devastated lives.
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Mr. Daniels graduated from Pomona College in California with a degree in liberal arts and completed postgraduate work at the University of California at Berkeley before beginning a lengthy career in broadcasting. Mr. Daniels spent 15 years at CBS in various capacities, including Vice President and General Manager of WCBS-TV and President of the CBS Owned Television Stations Division. He joined NBC in 1975 and served as Senior Vice President in charge of Broadcast Standards. He is a former board member of the National Association of Broadcasters Code Authority and the Television Bureau of Advertising. Mr. Daniels served for 23 years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services.
Mr. Daniels strongly supports WiRED’s programming that enables people to communicate and access information via the Internet as they struggle to rebuild their countries in the aftermath of war.
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Lewis Eigen, Ph.D., has joined WiRED's board of directors. Lewis is chairman of Potomac, Maryland-based professional services firm BEA Enterprises, Inc. He comes to WiRED with wide-ranging experience in education, business, publishing, and government service.
His background includes positions as chief executive officer of Educational Design Inc., associate director of the U.S. Job Corps, and professor of educational
psychology at Temple University.
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Dr. Elizabeth Fine is a Professor at Virginia Tech, where she holds a joint appointment in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and the Department of Communication Studies. She is Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. Her research interests include cultural studies, African American folklore, performance studies, and Appalachian Studies.
She received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Texas at Austin (1978), her M.A. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley (1973), and her B.S. in Speech Communication from the University of Texas at Austin (1971) and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1971). She is the author of numerous articles, as well as the books Soulstepping: African American Step Shows (2003), The Folklore Text: From Performance to Print (1984, 1994), and is co-editor of the book Performance, Culture, and Identity (1992).
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Dr. Gilbert earned two graduate degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary and then served as a writer-producer for the Presbyterian denomination in the United States. He also founded the School for Continuing Education at Princeton University. Dr Gilbert served as an executive editor for NBC-TV for 15 years and maintains his passion for communication as a writer and consultant.
As Co-chair of WiRED’s board of directors, Dr. Gilbert was a guiding force during the early days of WiRED’s efforts to establish Information Centers in the Balkans. He believes that replacing war-ravaged libraries with Internet resources not only brings children and adults into the vast new world of information, but also builds democracy for people hungry for freedom and progress.
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Ms. Grgich serves as President of the Tatjana Grgich Family Foundation and is dedicated to projects, programs, and services that assist youth from strife-torn areas of the world. Based in California’s Sonoma Valley, her foundation supports local and national charitable organizations which provide educational, medical, and spiritual sustenance to families and individuals.
Ms. Grgich is currently serving as a member of the Board of Regents of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and as a benefactor and board member of the Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth Institute) at LaRoche College in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Mr. Hamond majored in accounting at City College of New York and presently still resides there. He is a keen sportsman with particular interest in sailing, tennis, and skiing, and he also loves the arts--theater, music, and art. He has owned the insurance brokerage company, Hamond and Company, for 46 years, and has also participated in running other related businesses. He has served as a member of the board of Cases, a center for alternative sentencing and employment.
Mr. Hamond is supportive of many grass-roots organizations and philanthropic causes, among them the 92nd Street Y, of which he is a member and whose events and programs he attends regularly. He participates on the Board of WiRED because he believes it to be a noble and worthwhile venture.
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Dr. Northrup, board certified in internal medicine, earned his bachelor’s degree at Yale and his medical degree at Harvard. His experience in global medicine is vast: Dr. Northrup served as Senior Technical Advisor for Project Hope where he provided technical support in Indonesia and Central Asia and later became the interim Director of the Health of the Women and Children Unit. Working with Management Sciences for Health in Boston, Dr. Northrup served on the Equity Project in South Africa, which provided integrated primary healthcare, a comprehensive package of essential services in rural areas. He was the Technical Officer and Director of Working Group with the BASICS Project on programs for child health and survival in Indonesia, India, Bangladesh and other countries. In this capacity, he also collaborated with the World Health Organization on the development of a medical school curriculum on Integrated Management of Childhood Illness. Dr. Northrup was the Technical Director for the PRITECH Project. In this role, he also taught staff members of voluntary organizations as well as USAID health officers about life-saving therapies. Dr. Northrup was Chairman and Professor of the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. In addition to Dr. Northrup’s expansive educational and humanitarian activities, he finds time to be a choral singer, music director and arranger, actor, and athlete. He is married with two grown children. Dr. Northrup's works have been published in numerous academic journals.
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Mr. Ohrenschall brings a wealth of experience in international business and community service. After earning a degree in history from Yale University, Mr. Ohrenschall founded Soyster & Ohrenschall Inc., International Marketing and Design Consultants. He is Chairman Emeritus of Addison Design.
Mr. Ohrenschall serves on the boards of The Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, the International Diplomacy Council, the Ohrenschall Center for Entrepreneurship at San Francisco State University, the Tiburon Belvedere Rotary Club, and the Romberg Tiburon Environmental Centers.
Mr. Ohrenschall serves as co-chair of WiRED’s board of directors because he believes the Internet to be a gateway to the future for those who have been disadvantaged through war and economic conditions.
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Virgil Scudder is president of Virgil Scudder & Associates, a New York-based executive communications and media relations firm. He has conducted media and presentation training programs in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, and serves as ongoing communications counselor to CEO's of some of the world's leading corporations.
Prior to starting his own firm in 1990, he was senior vice president of Hill & Knowlton, one of the world's largest public relations firms. Earlier, he was a news broadcaster at NBC News, ABC News, and Westinghouse Broadcasting. An arts and sciences graduate of Indiana University, he currently serves on the Dean's Advisory Council of that university's College of Arts and Sciences.
Mr. Scudder believes that effective communication and the work done by organizations such as WiRED are essential to promoting world peace and understanding.
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Dr. Selnow is Executive Director of World Internet Resources for Education and Development and a professor with the Marian Wright Edelman Institute at San Francisco State University.
Selnow is the author/coauthor of seven books including Society's Impact on Television and High Tech Campaigns. Electronic Whistlestops is his latest book about the use of the Internet in American politics. He is currently completing a book with Croatian journalist, Stjephan Malovic, on the role of the press in the former Yugoslavia, and is writing Through Washington's Back Door, a book about use of the Internet in political communication.
Selnow was twice a Fulbright Scholar, first in Austria and most recently at the University of Zagreb in Croatia. He has lectured at the London School of Economics, the University of Warsaw, the Free University of Amsterdam and other universities in Europe. He coordinated a national communication program for a White House task force and served as a research methodologist for the U.S. Information Agency. He was a reporter for Greater New York Radio and a consultant for NBC Television and the National Academy of Sciences. Selnow was a pilot and information officer for the U.S. Air Force. He consults for industry and nonprofit organizations. Selnow received his bachelors degree in technical writing at Rutgers University and his masters and doctoral degrees in communication at Michigan State University.
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Mr. Wright has recently retired to the great outdoors. He is an avid hiker and backpacker who hiked the entire Appalachian Trail in 2000. A graduate of Washington and Lee University (BA) and Syracuse University (MBA), he served for fifteen years as the budget officer for the US Army's largest command, located in Atlanta. Having worked to finance Army deployments to Bosnia and Kosovo, he is aware of the destruction and isolation of those countries and their people, and believes that WiRED is integral to educational and redevelopment opportunities both there and in other countries throughout the world.
Frank is a member of several volunteer organizations in the Atlanta area.
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