John Sutter, President

John O. Sutter earned his first two degrees at Washington University after serving in combat and military government in Germany, experiences that led to his starting a dissertation on a United States of Europe. In the U.S. Foreign Service, he helped close the American Consulate General in Shanghai and open the Consulate in Surabaya.  Indonesian language and area studies, followed by a stint as economic officer in the American Embassy, Jakarta, resulted in his doctoral dissertation on political influences on the Indonesian economy (Cornell U.).  He married a wonderful woman, Doris, and worked for three decades with The Asia Foundation.

Since joining the World Federalists in 1987, John has served as Editor of the Northern California World Federalist (1987-91) and its renamed Toward Democratic World Federation (1996-- ); he also held the offices of Treasurer, Vice President, and President, first of WFA of Northern California and subsequently of Democratic World Federalists.  He helped organize the San Francisco hearing of the U.S. Commission on Improving the Effectiveness of the U.N. in 1993.

He also served on the Board of the World Federalist Association, 1989-2003, and its policy committee, and headed its liaison committee for the W.F.M.  He served on the Council of the World Federalist Movement (1991-2007), headed its committee on Federalism and the Right of People to Self-Government, and in 1995 organized its World Congress in San Francisco and its symposium on "Restructuring the United Nations: Achieving Democratic Global Governance for the 21st Century."

Fred Duperrault, Vice President

Fred Duperrault served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1944 to '46.  He received his B.S. in Education from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in 1959.  From 1970 to 1990, he was a political activist in Wisconsin, during which time he also worked as a member of U.S. Sen. William Proxmire's staff (1972-1989.)   In the late 70's, he became an active World Federalist.  He was a member of the national WFA Board during much of the 80's and 90's and a member of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on the U.N. in the mid 80's.  During the late 80’s, he became president of the Milwaukee WFA Chapter.  He moved to California and became president of WFA’s Northern California chapter.

Fred co-founded the Action Coalition for Global Change and was its President from the mid to late 90's.  He also co-founded the Silicon Valley Impeachment Coalition, which is still active. Currently, he is a Board Member of Citizens for a U.N. People's Parliamentary Assembly, a Green Party activist, an anti-war activist in Veterans For Peace and Mountain View Voices for Peace, and the Vice President of DWF.  He and his wife Lois have been married since 1949 and have two daughters and two sons.

Shariar Sharei, Vice President

Shariar Sharei received his B.S. in Business Administration from U.C. Berkeley in 1976 and his M.S. in Computer and Information Science from San Jose State University in 1977.  From 1978 to 1992, he worked mostly in the computer field, eventually becoming the Manager of Micro Systems in International Trade for Bank of America.  In 1992, he moved to his birthplace, Iran, and founded SAC, a computer networking company with such clients as the UN Human Rights Commission in Iran.  He was SAC’s Managing Director until 2000 and is still on its Board of Directors.  In 2000, he founded Synergix International L.L.C.

Shariar was exposed to the World Citizen’s Association in 1980 and subsequently became involved.  He helped start the newsletter, One World Times, and helped begin the international holiday, Earth Day / World Equinox Day.  For one year, he served as President of the World Citizens Foundation. During this time, he also became involved with the World Federalist Association, the Campaign for UN Reform, Amnesty International.  He is currently a member of UNA/USA, a Councilor for the World Federalist Movement, and a Vice President of DWF.

Mary Harris, Secretary

Mary Harris received her BA from San Francisco State College (now University,) and went on to receive her MA from the California Institute of Integral Studies.  She continued on with her studies and completed post-graduate work at U.C. Santa Cruz, at U.C. Berkeley, at Kaohsiung Medical College in Taiwan, in Sasebo, Japan, and in Paris, France.  She received her life-time teaching credential from Laguna Salada School District.  Mary taught at an elementary school level in California from 1955 to 1960 and from 1968 to 1983.  During the interim period, she taught at schools overseas.  In 1983, she became an art teacher and taught at the Sanchez Cultural & Art Center then at the Community Center in Pacifica until 2003.

Mary was Secretary of the A. Philip Randolph Institute of San Mateo County.  She became active with the World Federalist Association of Northern California in the 1980’s, eventually becoming Secretary and is now the Secretary of the Democratic World Federalists.  She is a member/supporter of the A.C.L.U., Greenpeace, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Sierra Club, KQED, KPFA, and others.  She is also on the Board of Directors of the Sanchez Art Center and the Art Guild of Pacifica.

Roger Kotila, Chairperson

Dr. Roger Kotila is a psychologist and peace activist.  Receiving a Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1969, he has worked in community mental health, for the State of California, and in private practice. Dr. Kotila served his clinical internship on a Public Health Fellowship at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital in conjunction with Stanford University's Dept. of Psychiatry.  He has been a radio producer (Earthstar Radio, San Francisco), organized and worked with the homeless, and is an advocate/activist in the nonviolent protest movement for safe energy, human rights, and peaceful solutions. 

Roger is USA Vice President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association whose mission is to build a parallel world body to the United Nations, an emerging Earth Federation with a Provisional World Parliament under the Earth Constitution.  A world citizen and world federalist, Roger is married with four children and four grandchildren.  He resides with his wife, a tax consultant and musician/composer, in Marin County, California. 

Peter Bailey

A graduate of Oxford, Peter Bailey worked as an economist in London for several years and then lived in the Austrian Alps pursuing personal philosophical interests for a few more, before moving to Canada.  There he joined a Canadian federal agency as an international economist, becoming assistant chief economist and head of the country risk assessment department.  In that capacity, he traveled throughout the world to many countries in every continent, and regularly served on official Canadian delegations to international aid conferences and innumerable multilateral debt rescheduling and debt forgiveness negotiations. 
 
Always a European federalist, he attended his first international world federalist conference in Amsterdam in 1966.  However, he remained a closet world federalist until his retirement, when he joined WFM-Canada. He is now a member of the WFMC National Council and President of the World Federalist Foundation of Canada on top of his position on the Board of the Democratic World Federalists.

Urs Cipolat

Urs Cipolat received an LL.M. (Master of Laws) from Yale Law School and a J.D. (lic.iur.) from Fribourg University in Switzerland.  He received his J.S.D. degree (Juridical Science Doctorate) from the University of California at Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) in May of 2000, finishing a dissertation that analyzed the U.S. and international military export control regimes.  He has been teaching at UC Berkeley's College of Letters and Sciences, Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies (UGIS) since August of 2000.  From 1994 to 1995, Cipolat was a visiting researcher at the Woodrow Wilson School for International and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Between 1995 and 1996, he was a member of the Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School. In 1996, Cipolat wrote an amicus brief for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. In 2001, he served as consultant to the World Without War Council. From 2002 to 2004, he served as a senior consultant to the Global Security Institute and assisted former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in the proceedings of the World Summit of Peace Nobel Laureates.

Since 2004, Cipolat has been consulting with Tri-Valley CAREs, the local watchdog group of the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory. He also advises the CS Fund on matters concerning globalization, ethics and democracy. He has given numerous public lectures and is a member of the American Society for International Law, the Arms Control Association, the Association for the Prevention of Torture, the United Nations Association of the United States of America, and the World Federalist Movement.

Esther Franklin

Esther Franklin is a retired educator who taught from Kindergarten to University level. She was best known as a Consultant in School Library Services, but was also a Consultant in Global Citizenship Education. She has given various presentations at the Peace & Justice Studies Association's meetings. She also attended the Provisional World Parliaments of the World Constitution and Parliament Association, through which she traveled to Libya for a peace-focused tour. Since retiring, she has devoted her time to writing and is the author of The Others At Monticello and considers herself a "Peace Activist."

Ronald Glossop

Dr. Ronald Glossop is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, where he was also Coordinator of Peace Studies for 25 years. He has authored over 50 articles in professional journals plus three books: Philosophy: An Introduction to Its Problems and Vocabulary (1974); Confronting War (1983; 4th ed. 2001); and World Federation? A Critical Analysis of Federal World Government, (1993). He is Chair of Citizens for Global Solutions/St. Louis Chapter and also serves on the CGS national Board of Directors as well as the DWF Board. He is VP of UNA-St. Louis, President of the American Association of Esperanto Instructors, and Director of the Esperanto organization "Children around the World." He is active in various organizations such as International Philosophers for Peace, Concerned Philosophers for Peace, and the Peace and Justice Studies Association. Glossop is a member of the honor societies Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi.

Bruce Kennedy

Upon graduation from Princeton in 1951, Bruce Kennedy joined the navy and served as an officer on a destroyer in the Korean War.  After his service, he spent a year as a lay missionary for the Episcopal Church in Alaska, in two small native villages on the Yukon.  This was followed by three years in Seminary and Eight active years as a Priest (in Mexico and San Francisco's Hunters Point.)  He then became active in local Democratic politics, working for several candidates. In 1971, he went to KPIX television and worked as Editorial Director for eight years.  In 1980, he became Public Affairs Director for the State Public Utilities Commission.  Bruce retired in 1994.  He is the divorced father of two adult children.

Debbie Metke

Debbie first heard about World Federation in the early 80's when she lived in San Francisco for 4 years, but didn't rediscover it until the early 90's, when she saw a blurb in the Milwaukee paper saying "Peace Through World Law.”  She immediately became involved.

In 1997, she moved to Washington DC and worked as Executive Assistant to the President for the World Federalist Association. In 2001, she moved back to Milwaukee and soon became President of the Milwaukee WFA chapter.

Debbie has also produced three different cable TV shows on the subject, interviewing Milwaukee's former World Federalist Mayor for one.  Her main objective is to simplify the message for the masses, attract a younger crowd and get mass media coverage, probably through finding celebrity spokespeople.  She has attended international meetings in France, England and Canada and recently became a member of the DWF Board.

Chuck Woolery

Chuck Woolery attended Colorado State University, graduating with a B.S. in Biology.  While teaching, he learned of the horrific global child death toll from easily preventable hunger and malnutrition related to poverty and decided to change careers.  After finishing the book, “Ending Hunger: An idea whose time has come,” and organizing political grassroots efforts in California, he moved to Washington DC to become the first Media Director for RESULTS. 

He was the first Director of the Alliance for Child Survival and cofounded “The Global Connections Foundation.”   He worked with the Global Health Council, the Action Board of the American Public Health Association and as Chair of the United Nations Association Council of Organizations.  In 1998, the World Federalist Association hired Chuck as Issues Director. 

A year after 9-11, he left WFA and became active on the editorial board of the World Hunger Education Service and a school construction project in Haiti.   He now speaks frequently regarding global threats and solutions to large groups of students and teachers, visiting Washington DC through the Close Up Foundation.  He lives with his wife, children and assorted pets, in Rockville, Maryland and is working on his book, “The Trilemma: Maximizing freedom and security in an interdependent world.”  His speeches, his blog  (http://dothefreakinmath.blogspot.com/) and his frequent letters to the editor in national publications continue to educate Americans on the urgent need for world federation.