Senior Fellows

V. Judith Bowman

David Forbes-Watkins

John L. German

Carlos A. Lithgow, Jr.

Hanifa Mezoui

V. Judith Bowman

V. Judith Bowman has thirty years of managerial, risk-management and lending experience with Citicorp / Citibank. As a Vice President and Senior Credit Officer for Citibank, her work included significant involvement with high-net-worth entrepreneurs in financing equity-type investments in new ventures and small/medium size enterprises. Among other responsibilities, she established first risk review processes for capital markets businesses. She also led initial reviews of Citibank's North American fixed income and loan syndication businesses, first capital market review in South America (Argentina) and first integrated global capital markets review (New York, London and Hong Kong). Prior to working with Citibank, Bowman was one of the first three women staff writers with Forbes, and with the US State Department Foreign Service, stationed in Peru, Liberia and France. Bowman currently volunteers with SCORE, Service Corps of Retired Executives, an affiliate of US Government's Small Business Administration, where she counsels small business owners on development of business plans and financing.

She has an MBA from Fordham University, a BA from Smith College, and studied History at the Sorbonne. She is a member of the Explorers Club of New York and the Travelers Century Club, whose membership is restricted to those who have been to 100 plus countries.

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David Forbes-Watkins

David Forbes-Watkins serves as Senior Financial Consultant with PPAF. He has extensive experience in finance and administration. He served as Director of Finance at My Sisters� Place, a non-profit in Westchester County, New York; Director of Finance and Administration at Planned Parenthood of Hudson-Peconic; and Finance Manager of the International Center for Integrative Studies - The Door. He also was Associate Director for Management and Operations at the American Council for Nationalities Service (now Immigration and Refugee Services of America), and held that position also with the international Project of the Association for Voluntary Sterilization (now EnGender Health). Earlier he was Director, Management Planning and Systems at Lehman College and Chief of the Administrative Branch, Health and Safety Laboratory of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

Forbes-Watkins is a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and volunteers with Meals on Wheels.

Forbes-Watkins has a Masters of Public Administration from the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (now Kennedy School of Public Policy) and a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University.

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John L. German

At the United Nations, John L. German represents People to People International (founded by President Eisenhower) and other civil-society organizations, and serves as the NGO (non-governmental organization) representative to the Technical Subgroup of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Informatics (informally, the Working Group on Informatics) of the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), and as Senior Advisor to the United Nations Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development.

German serves as Director of Non-Profit Computing, Inc. (a nonprofit organization), an all-volunteer organization he founded in 1984. NPC arranges computer donations, procurement, and logistics worldwide. It also advises and assists international organizations on strategy, institutional partnerships, and technology -- information and communication technologies, Web 2.0, new media, social media, social networking, online and user-produced video, mobile text messaging campaigns, and the like -- for attraction, engagement, advocacy, and activism. NPC is a member of the United Nations Global Compact.

For The Rotary Club of New York, German serves as Co-Chair of its International Service Division.

His paid-job career, after he lived and worked briefly in South Africa, was in international banking, first with a major Brazilian banking group, in Brazil, and then with Citibank, in Brazil and then in the USA. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from Pennsylvania State University.

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Carlos A. Lithgow, Jr.

Mr. Carlos A. Lithgow, Jr. is a Senior Consultant at Commerce Coverage Group-EAC Brokerage Inc in New York City, specializing in Property & Casualty Insurance and benefits for small and large businesses. Having worked at major investment companies throughout his career, he has also consulted with US and International Institutions in terms of risk and portfolio management. He has also advised High Net Worth individuals and Family offices throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America on asset management and domestic and offshore estate planning. He served an instrumental role in opening up a new Financial Center for Dreyfus Service Corporation in Coral Gables, FL where his group built a client base into one of the top performing offices in the country.

Mr. Lithgow has a Masters Degree in Finance from Florida International University and is a board member and spokesperson for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's NYC patient services group.

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Hanifa Mezoui

Dr. Hanifa Mezoui was Chief of the United Nations NGO Section of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) from March 1997 to March 2009. Since 2000, she has made a commitment to the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. Through the UN Non-Governmental Organization Informal Regional Network (UN-NGO-IRENE), an outreach programme which she initiated, the NGO Section DESA has been able to mobilize civil society for a global campaign to implement the MDGs and other UN objectives. The program aims at reducing the "digital divide" by providing information, training and the opportunity for even the most geographically remote organizations to address the global agenda for the 21st Century.

The UN-NGO-IRENE network, with which she continues to work, has created new development opportunities through strategic partnerships with key constituencies. During a 2005-6 sabbatical Dr. Mezoui developed with the Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions (AICESIS) a study project entitled: "Development of New Academic Programmes and Pedagogical Tools Promoting the Achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Partnership with the International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions (AICESIS), with Civil Society Organizations/Non-Governmental Organizations (CSO/NGOs) and with Institutions of Higher Education." Within the framework of this, three global surveys were conducted in partnership with AICESIS, Sciences Po and the UN-NGO-IRENE network, followed by a cycle of four Regional Round Tables (Paris, Alger, Brasilia, and Beijing).

Dr. Mezoui is from Algeria and holds a Doctorate in French Linguistics, an MA in French Literature and a diploma in Business Administration from the University of Aix-en-Provence, South of France.

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"The United Nations can only do its job properly with partners. We will need to forge even closer ties to civil society groups, foundations, academic institutions, the media, labour unions, and the private sector. Each has unique contributions to make."

-Ban Ki-moon
UN Secretary-General,
Address to UNA-USA Business Council
for the UN,
New York, 10 January 2007

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