THE 2024-2026 GOVERNING BODY OF
THE LIGHT MILLENNIUM, INC.
CHARITABLE GLOBAL HUMAN ADVANCEMENT ORGANIZATION
LMGlobal.Org, 2001, New York | With # 501(c)3 Tax Exempt Status

[LMGlobal.Org] The 2024-2026 New Term – Governing Body:
The below-listed names are the Board of Directors and Advisory Members of the Light Millennium, Charitable Global Human Advancement Organization (LMGlobal.Org) for the new term 2024-2026, who were elected during the 2024 Annual Meeting on Saturday, June 22, 2024.

We welcome new participants from various cultural and professional backgrounds to establish diversity within the Board. We aim to increase the sustainability of the Organization, with diverse and inclusive participation from different professional disciplines and cultural backgrounds globally.

If you are interested in joining the organization: you may take part in the Governing Body, or the Advisory Board; you may serve as a Pro-Bono Professional, a Volunteer Representative, a Volunteer Staff Member, a Translator, a Grant Writer, an Editor, or get involved in the Production/Program aspects of the organization, or can join one of its COMMITTEES. If you would like to be a part of the LMGlobal.Org, please send us an email indicating your interest area in the subject line along with your resumé email to: CONTACT(at)LIGHTMILLENNIUM.ORG

We are looking forward to receiving your inquiries,

Thank you very much,

With Peace, Love & Light,

– Bircan Ünver, Founder-President of
The Light Millennium, Charitable
Global Human Advancement Organization
www.lmglobal.org | www.lightmillennium.org (web archive)

The new term and re-elected BOARD OF DIRECTORS are (with voting capacity) based on the latest June 22, 2024 dated Annual Meeting & Board of Elections:

BİRCAN ÜNVER, Founder-President, (Re-elected); TV and Web Content Producer;
Head NGO Representative at the United Nations Department of Global Communications
(formerly, UNDPI/NGO) since 2005.

Prof. VICTOR B. LAWRENCE (Re-elected), Director of the Center for Intelligent Networked Systems (iNetS), and former Associate Dean and Batchelor Chair Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology (New Jersey)

DEMET DEMIRKAYA
Treasurer (Re-elected), Photographer, Poet

For the brief biography of each board member, please click on each name.

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS (No voting capacity):

Ambassador RODRIGO A. CARAZO, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations (2018-2022);
Member of the UN Human Rights Committee, Geneva (2023-2026);
President of UNESCO Executive Board (2022-2023)

PROF. OLCAY ÜNVER, Professor of Practice at Arizona State University;
Vice-Chair, UN-Water (2018-2020);
Member, Water Policy Group

HANDE SUBASILAR, Ph.D., Art Historian;
Former Secretary General of The Light Millennium

GÜL TÜRKMENOGLU, Senior Director of Operations at Sonesta Hotels International New York

İSA ALEMDAĞ, IT Consultant, Entrepreneur, Founder/CEO of Horon Solutions, Information Technology (U.K.).

Prof. GÜNAY SMITH, Professor of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Southside Virginia Community College (Retired)

For the brief biography of each board member, please click on each name.

2024  THE LIGHT MILLENNIUM GLOBAL’s REPRESENTATIVES TO THE UNITED NATIONS DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS ARE:

• BİRCAN ÜNVER, HEAD 
NGO Representative to the United Nations Department of Global Communications

• MIMOZA IRTEM, Prospect Youth Representative to the United Nations Department of Global Communications

HONORARY ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER:

• EDWARD FOSTER, [Retired] Professor, College of Arts and Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey; Poet, Publisher

IN RESPECTFUL MEMORY:

• TALAT S. HALMAN, Professor in Literature Department of the Bilkent University, Ankara,
Turkey, National President of UNICEF in Turkey (July 7, 1931 – December 5, 2014).

• ETEM EROL (1955 – 2016), Professor in Middle Eastern Studies, Yale University, CT.

• SAMUEL PALEY (1941 – 2010), Professor, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, The Classics Department

ASSOCIATION & MEMBERSHIPS:

• E-Verified #2466611
• Associated With the United Nations Department of Global Communications effective on December 12, 2005.
The Light Millennium Organization has been Active, and with a Good-Standing at the U.N. since 2005.
• MEMBER, Global Movement Culture of Peace (GMCoP), United Nations
• MEMBER, NonProfit New York (2021-2023)
• TechSoup.Org
• GuideStar.Org | 2022 Silver Transparency Candid Silver Transparency
• MEMBER (Former), New York Volunteer Lawyers of Arts
• Idealist.Org
• NonProfit Connection
• NonProfit Technical Clinic Assistance
* NCCS.URGAN.Org
* NYSCA.Org

– The list of 2022-2024 Board Members, Advisory Board Members, and Committee Members

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Disclosure: The Light Millennium Organization’s initial website (1999-2018) <www.lightmillennium.org> contains the earlier terms of the Board of Directors (before 2022), Advisory Board Members, and Volunteers, which are available via this link.

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