Nicanor Perlas

 

Nicanor Perlas is President of the Center for Alternative Development Initiatives (CADI) in Manila where he guides research and policy work and develops initiatives on globalization, threefolding and their impacts on civil society, cultural power and sustainable development.

  • Co-Founder and Spokesperson, Karangalan, 1st National Conference and Festival on “Mobilizing Excellence for Creating a Visionary Philippines”, January 21-23, 2005 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, in partnership with over 40 organizations and networks. Details, see TruthForce! below.

  • Chief Facilitator, ABS-CBN Forum on the Filipino Future, December 16, 2004

  • Adviser on Strategy and Integral Sustainable Development and Member, Board of Directors, Lifebank, and Board of Trustees of Lifebank Foundation, both of which help close to 35,000 economically poor families thru microfinance.

  • Professor, Doctoral Program on Applied Cosmic Anthropology, Asian Social Institute

  • Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, TruthForce! Internet based newspaper cum magazine, www.truthforce.info and Editor-In-Chief, Ikabuhi Newspaper for Micro-Entrepreneurs (34,000 + circulation)

  • Co-Founder, Tindog Pilipinas! (also Spokesperson), national movement for a better Philippines, Professionals for Social Responsibility, Philippine Advancement and Renewal thru Threefolding Networking, Research & Service (PARTNERS), and Global Network for Social Threefolding, found in 12 country areas in the world. www.globenet3.org

  • Co-Founder, President and Executive Director, Center for Alternative Development Initiatives, Metro Manila and Iloilo City, www.cadi.ph

  • Co-Founder and Board Member, Global Leadership Initiative, www.theglobalinstitute.org and member, Mikhail Gorbachev’s Commission on Globalization

  • Creative Member, Club of Budapest, Recognized as “highly creative innovators for a social and ecological sustainable world and a culture of peace”.

  • Author, over 100 articles and monographs including an international best selling book, Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding, translated in over 9 languages. (Other topics, see below.)

  • Resource Person and Keynote Speaker, Over 70 global conferences and 100 national conferences on a range of topics including culture and societal transformation, integral sustainable development, globalization, technology, corporate social responsibility, science and spirituality, social threefolding, strategic microfinance, direct democracy and others

  • Consultant and Adviser, UN agencies, Philippine official delegations to the United Nations, government and donor agencies, and civil society organizations.

 SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

Selected awards in recognition of the national and global impact of his work:

  • 2003 Right Livelihood Award or the Alternative Nobel Prize for laying the theoretical and practical basis for creating a better world.

  • The Outstanding Filipino Award (TOFIL), 1994

  • Global 500 Award, UN Environmental Program, 1994

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