Alex Berson is a Director of Technology for a global management consulting firm. Dr. Berson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences and M.S. in Applied Mathematics, and is an internationally recognized expert, author, educator and practitioner who has over 20 years of experience in information technologies focusing on data warehouse systems architecture, including design and implementation of systems and applications in the areas of data management, data warehousing and data mining; transaction processing; middleware, client/server distributed computing; and object technologies. Alex Berson is an active member of IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and many others. He�s also an advisory editor for the… McGraw-Hill Professional Books division. He has published numerous technical articles in trade magazines, and is a best-selling author of a number of professional books including 'Data Warehousing, Data Mining and OLAP'(with Steve Smith); �Client/Server Architecture�; �SYBASE and Client/Server Computing�(with George Anderson); and �APPC: Introduction to LU6.2�. These books are published internationally, and had been translated in many languages including Chinese and Korean. His latest book, �Building Data Mining Applications for CRM�, is scheduled to be published in December 1999.
George Anderson became president of the Forum of Federations in June 2005. He was previously Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Canada, from May 2002 until May 2005. He also served as Deputy Minister (Intergovernmental Affairs) in the Privy Council Office beginning in August 1996. He beganworking in Canada's federal public service in 1972. From 1992 to 1993 he was a fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs. George Anderson has a B.A. from Queen's University, an M. Litt. in Political Science from Oxford University, a diploma from the Ecole nationaled'administration in Paris, France, and is currently a trustee of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His… previous book, Federalism: An Introduction was published by OUP in 2008.