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<h3>MEET THE COURSE TEAM</h3>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;"><img src="/assets/courseware/v1/16ae9205360d884436bf318f45d219d3/asset-v1:MITx+11.405x+2T2020+type@asset+block/Phil1.png" alt="Phil Thompson Photo" type="saveimage" target="[object Object]" preventdefault="function (){r.isDefaultPrevented=n}" stoppropagation="function (){r.isPropagationStopped=n}" stopimmediatepropagation="function (){r.isImmediatePropagationStopped=n}" isdefaultprevented="function t(){return!1}" ispropagationstopped="function t(){return!1}" isimmediatepropagationstopped="function t(){return!1}" width="134" height="135" /> <span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Dr. </strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: black; font-weight: bold;">Phil Thompson</span> <br />Dr. Phil Thompson is an urban planner, political scientist, and currently serves as Deputy Mayor for Strategic Policy Initiatives in New York City. He received a B.A. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1977, a M.U.P from Hunter College in 1986, and a PhD in Politic Science from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 1990. Phil worked as Deputy General Manager of the New York Housing Authority, and as Director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing Coordination. Phil is a frequent advisor to trade unions in their efforts to work with immigrant and community groups across the United States.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;"><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Katrin Kaeufer is a Senior Research Fellow at the MIT Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and President at the Presencing Institute. Her research focuses on leadership, social transformation, and socially responsible banking. Kaeufer’s dissertation on Socially Responsible Banking was published as a book. She has consulted with mid-sized as well as global companies, non-profit organizations, the World Bank, and with the United Nations Development Program in New York. She is also a co-founding member of the Presencing Institute.<br /><br /></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; color: black;"><span style="color: #3c3c3c; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em; font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Janina Zajic gained international experience while working for the UN in New York and the German Embassy in Prague. She has been connected to values-based banking for over 10 years and currently serves as Advisor to the CEO and GABV Board member Thomas Jorberg at GLS Bank in Germany. Her responsibilities for the GABV Secretariat include development of the GABV’s European Chapter and the Human Capital action track, with a special focus on the GABV Leadership Academy. Janina is married, has three children and lives in Herne.<br /><br /></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;"><span style="font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;"><span style="color: rgb(54, 67, 76); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15.36px;">Jeff Bos is the Chief Operating and Financial Officer at the Non-GMO Project in Bellingham, Washington. Jeff is also a facilitator/coach for the Global Alliance for Banking on Values’ Leadership Academy in partnership with MIT and the Presencing Institute. In 2015, Jeff was one of five Mel King Community Fellows at MIT’s CoLab. </span><span style="color: rgb(54, 67, 76); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15.36px;">Before this role, Jeff was the Director of People Innovation & Impact at Vancity Credit Union in Vancouver, Canada, a community-focused, values-based credit union. During his 6 years with Vancity, Jeff also held the position of Director of Enterprise Compliance and Security and lead a large IT project. </span><span style="color: rgb(54, 67, 76); font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15.36px;">Jeff holds an MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute in Seattle, WA and an honors degree in Biology and Economics from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.</span><br /><br /></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: left; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;"><span style="font-family: 'Open Sans', Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif, sans-serif; line-height: 25.6px;">Julie Arts is a co-facilitator for the U.Lab, supporting and cultivating the emerging network of global hubs and a Theory U practitioner working with the Presenting Institute. Outside of U.Lab, her recent work has focused on improving quality of life for people with disabilities in Belgium, developing innovative solutions for water quality in The Netherlands and a Climate Change Leadership lab in Burundi.</span></p>
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