Gordon Feller

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Biographical Information

"Director of Urban Innovations with Cisco, Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) Before joining Cisco, Gordon Feller worked for more than 30 years to change the way that cities work how they govern themselves, how they partner with the business sector, how they collaborate with NGOs and international agencies, how they are led, and how they plan for a more sustainable future.

"As a consultant, Feller has a client list featured many prominent non-profits, for-profits and government agencies, including the World Bank Institute, McGraw Hill, Reuters, Bechtel, BP Amoco, UCLA, HP/Compaq, Lockheed, Apple Computer, IBM, Phelps Dodge, Digital Equipment Corp, AT&T, Reuters, ChevronTexaco, UNESCO, City University of New York/College of Staten Island, the Governor of Ohio, The Center for International Education, PLATTS and The Financial Times of London. "

• Director, Urban Age Institute
• Founding Council, New World Alliance

Interview from 1983

"...Mr. Feller is only 23 years old-he has already received his master's degree in international and public affairs from Columbia University, where he was the university's first Wallach Fellow of World Order Studies.

"Furthermore, during his undergraduate years, Gordon worked at the United Nations as convenor of the U.N. Headquarters Youth Caucus, and there promoted youth participation in a variety of international projects (including the International Year of the Child). He later worked with the Humanity Fund, which financed groups tackling projects that aimed to augment local self-reliance and neighborhood power ... was on the staff of the World Policy Institute, during which time he completed his first book, Peace and World Order Studies (which has since become a standard reference for college and university curricula) ... served as executive director of Planetary Citizens, a U.N. project initiated by Norman Cousins ... and cofounded the Business Initiative, which allows corporate leaders to explore the views of the alternative culture. He has lectured to college audiences and professional groups throughout the country ... has written for numerous national and international publications (and has a new book, The Eye of the Storm, coming out in the spring of 1984) ... and is currently a director for Liberty Media, which has an hour-long television special in the works on interconnectedness and the emerging new world view..."