Board of Directors
Michael
E. Salla, Ph.D.,
is President and Founder of the Exopolitics Institute. He is author of Exopolitics:
Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence (Dandelion Books,
2004) and founder of the popular website: Exopolitics.Org.
He has held full time academic appointments at the Australian National University,
and American University, Washington DC. He has a PhD
in Government from the University of Queensland and an MA in Philosophy from the
University of Melbourne, Australia. During his professional academic career, he
was best known for organizing a series of citizen diplomacy initiatives for the
East Timor conflict that received large financial grants from the United States
Institute of Peace and the Ford Foundation. He is currently a resident of Hawaii.
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Paola
Harris, MEd. is the International Director of the Institute. She is
an Italo-American photojournalist and investigative reporter in the field of extraterrestrial
related phenomena research. She has studied extraterrestrial related phenomena
since 1979 and is on personal terms with many of the leading researchers in the
field. From 1980-1986 she assisted Dr. J. Allen Hynek with his UFO investigations
and has interviewed many top military witnesses concerning their involvement in
the government truth embargo. In 1997, Ms. Harris met and interviewed Col. Philip
Corso in Roswell, New Mexico and became a personal friend and confidante. She
was instrumental in having his book The Day After Roswell, for which she
wrote the preface, translated into Italian. She returned to Roswell in the summer
of 2003 for the American debut of her book, Connecting the Dots…making
sense of the UFO Phenomena (Granite Press). Paola has consulted with many
researchers about the best avenues for planetary disclosure with emphasis on the
“big picture” and stressing the historical connection. She is a close
friend of Monsignore Padre Corrado Balducci and assisted in filming the Italian
witnesses, including the Monsignore, for the Disclosure Project for the May 9,
2001 press conference. She was instrumental in bringing to Italy Robert Dean,
Dr. Steven Greer, Linda Moulton Howe, Dr. Richard Boylan, Russell Targ, Travis
Walton, Derrell Sims, Helmut Lamner, Michael Lindemann, Nick Pope, Bill Hamilton,
Carlos Diaz and Dr. John Mack. Her new non-profit association, Starworks Italia,
will continue to bring speakers to Italy and promote disclosure and exo-political
dialogue world-wide. She has been a speaker on many radio shows and conferences
in Italy, San Marino, Belgium and Germany, and has appeared many times on Italian
TV. She has written for Nexus, UFO Magazine, Notizario UFO and Dossier Alieni,
among others publications. Paola lives in Rome and has a Masters degree in Education.
Her principal website is: www.paolaharris.it
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Angelika
Sareighn Whitecliff is a multi-disciplinary researcher involved in
the study of consciousness, multidimensional communications and humanity's extraterrestrial
origin. She has been a conscious clairvoyant and telepath since childhood, and
has been actively communicating with beings of different vibrational frequencies
her entire life. Angelika has also had several physical interactions with benevolent,
human extraterrestirals who are here to assist humanity in a planet wide spiritual
awakening. Angelika helped co-found the Exopolitics Institute with its legal launch
in April 7, 2005 as a non-profit corporation in the State of Hawaii (see Articles
of Incorporation ). She was co-organizer of the 2007
Earth Transformation: New Science, Technology, Dolphins, Spirituality and Exopolitics
Conference, and of the 2006 Extraterrestrial
Civilizations & World Peace Conference. She is co-Founder of GalacticDiplomacy.com
and Coordinator of the Citizen Diplomacy program of the Exopolitics Institute.
She has professionally taught classes and seminars in developing clairvoyance,
the energetic healing arts, retrieving past/future life memories and communicating
with spiritual guides, angels and extraterrestrial visitors. She currently organizes
seminars involving extraterrestrial contactees in Zacatecas, Mexico and dolphin
interactions on the Big Island, Hawaii. Her writings are available
here, and more biographical information is available here.
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Haktan
Akdogan (Country Director - Turkey) a pioneering Turkish UFO researcher,
was born in Turkey . He is fluent in English, French and Turkish. Akdogan's curiosity
about the mystery of Space drew his interest to this field since childhood and
became a part of his daily life. It has been now 21 years that he continues his
scientific researches on the subject and participating in worldwide UFO Symposiums.
In order to share information on the subject and shed some light on the hidden
facts, he produces a weekly documentary TV Program on UFOs named "UFO Reality"
in Turkey. Mr. Akdogan has also hosted a weekly Radio program about UFOs at "Cool
FM" for 2 years. Akdogan founded "Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research
Centre" on May 2, 1997. The Centre chaired by Akdogan has been involved in
intensive studies on the subject and initiated many National and International
Conferences and workshops. The Centre organized an historical event, The First
International UFO Symposium of Middle & Eastern Europe, Balkans and Middle-
East, realized on 20-21st February 1999 with the participation of 5.200 people
as well as hundreds of news reporters . This followed by the 2nd and the 3rd Conferences
in 2000 and 2001. Apart from the Centre's studies, Haktan Akdogan is continuing
to give conferences on the subject both in Turkey and abroad. He continues to
speak at numerous national conferences, at Universities , National Associations
and private organisations...etc. He is also the board director of "The International
UFO Congress" in Nevada. In order to inform the public on UFO reality, Akdogan
participated in more than 135 national TV programs and news as a guest speaker,
published numerous articles and gave many interviews both on TVs, radios and national
newspapers. Akdogan is also the founder of the First International UFO Museum
of Middle and Eastern Europe, Balkans and Middle-East which has opened in Istanbul,
Turkey on January 17th 2002. And two new ones which opened in Denizli and Goreme-Turkey
in 2005. He is also the creator of World's First "Travelling UFO Museum"
which was established summer of 2003 and The Museum on the wheels visits 15-20
cities during summers in Turkey. He is the founder of " SIRIUS Publishing
House". He is also publisher and editor in chief of "X Magazine",
a monthly publication of UFO and Paranormal related phenomenon. Haktan Akdogan
is the creator of the "World UFO Day" which suggests to make peaceful
demonstrations and events worldwide on every 2nd of July to increase the public
awareness about this important fenomenon as well as to demand world governments
to tell the people of the Earth "The Truth!" His website is: www.siriusufo.org
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MIKE
BIRD (Country Director - Canada) saw a UFO hover over Lake Ontario
for over 2 hours in Sept 1975. He watched it through a telescope. His wife and
parents also watched it and confirmed what he saw. He attended his first MUFON
Conference in 1976 and he helped to organise the MUFON Conference in Toronto in
1982. In the early 90s he started his own UFO Discussion and Abduction Support
Group. Mike has been the Regional Director for MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) Central
Canada since 2002. In
September 2005, he was co-organizer of the Exopolitics Toronto Symposium which
featured the public emergence of former Canadian Minister of Defence, Paul Hellyer,
calling for an end to the UFO cover up. Website: http://exopoliticstoronto.com
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