AMB. PHILLIP V. SANCHEZ
AMB. Phillip Sanchez is Publisher of Tiempos del Mundo. Ambassador Sanchez also serves as Vice President of the Washington Times Corporation and is Chairman of the Board of Nostalgia Television. Ambassador Sanchez also holds various high-level positions in academia and business and has held key diplomatic and government posts. In 1971, he received the first of four presidential appointments, being named as Assistant Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). He was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Colombia in 1973 and to Honduras in 1976. Ambassador Sanchez has been recognized with numerous honorary doctorates and awards, including being chosen “Man of the Year” in 1975 by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, and being elected to the prestigious Congressional Awards Board.

EILEEN M. HEAPHY,
Executive Director of the World Affairs Forum Eileen Heaphy joined the World Affairs Forum as its Executive Director in March 2000, after a twenty-six year career in the US Foreign Service. Her overseas assignments included Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain and Denmark. She served as the U.S. Consul General in Monterrey, Mexico, the country’s key business and industrial center, and was named Honorary Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico for her extraordinary service to the American business community in her region. She also served as the U.S. Consul in Bilbao, Spain, during the era of Basque terrorism and Spain’s transition to democracy. At the Department of State, Ms. Heaphy directed major bilateral affairs offices for Northern Europe, Western Europe, and Mexico. She headed the preparations for US participation in the United Nations Special Session on Drugs and led the US negotiating team for creating an OAS multilateral evaluation system on all facets of counter-narcotics cooperation in the Hemisphere. She was the recipient of three Superior Honor Awards during her diplomatic career. At the time of her retirement, she was the State Department’s top ranking expert on US-Mexican relations. She has authored articles on foreign affairs for the Hartford Courant, the Stamford Advocate, the Christian Science Monitor, and for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think-tank. She speaks Spanish, Danish, and French. Ms. Heaphy’s community work since arriving in Stamford includes membership on the city’s Environmental Protection Board.

MR. JAMES C. NICHOLAS,
Executive Director Connecticut World Trade Association Mr. James C. Nicholas, Executive Director of the Connecticut World Trade Association, Inc. and Executive Partner Global Business Resources USA, LLC brings a history of more than thirty-three years of international experience, which includes ten years of line and staff accomplishments in the paper, transportation and chemical industries for Fortune 100 companies. Mr. Nicholas successfully developed and managed a $30 million export business, initiated one of the first majority owned joint ventures in Japan, developed and implemented technical assistance programs in Japan and Ecuador, initiated a program for the development of a packaging system in China and developed a strategy that opened markets in 48 countries. Mr. Nicholas has a MBA 1972 from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Business Administration from Morgan State University. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bridgeport and serves on the Boards and Advisory Committees of numerous international organizations. Mr. Nicholas was recently honored as the 2003 CWTA “Todd Ouida World Trade Award.”

MR. DAVID HORNBY
Export Manager of Wallach Surgical Devices David Hornby is currently the export mananger and service representative of Wallach Surgical Devices. Mr. Hornby received a Bachelors degree in Political Science with a minor in History from the University of Bridgeport and a Masters degree in Public Administration from the University of New Haven. He went on to work with the Department of Income Maintenance and Energy Program of Connecticut as an eligibility technician, Remington Products as a branch representative, and Becker Incorporated as a Senior Sales Coordinator. He is a member of the Connecticut District Export Council of the US Department of Commerce and a member and past president of the Fairfiled Lions Club.

MR. CLEMENT B. MALIN
Clement Malin has had a distinguished career that has included key leadership roles in the field of energy development. He completed his career as Texaco’s Vice President for International Relations but he also played a leadership role in the U.S. Department of Energy. Mr. Malin earned his B.A. at Dartmouth College and he completed a Masters degree in International Relations at Princeton University. He resides with his wife in Wilton, Connecticut where he pioneered an international affairs club that meets once a month in order to discuss and explore topics germane to world affairs. This past Spring Professor Malin taught an upper level course at the University of Bridgeport on the Geopolitics of Oil.