WCPA/ECI President
Glen T. Martin, PhD, is professor of philosophy emeritus at Radford University in Virginia, USA. He is also the founder and chair emeritus of the program in peace studies at Radford. He is currently executive director of the Earth Constitution Institute (ECI) and president of the World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA), cooperating worldwide organizations that sponsor the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. Dr. Marin has traveled and lectured worldwide on behalf of the Earth Constitution and the philosophical foundations of emerging world law, as well as on behalf of WCPA projects such as the sessions of the Provisional World Parliament. He has received several international peace awards, including the GUSI Peace Prize International in Manila, Philippines, 2013. He has published hundreds of articles concerning freedom, peace, justice, human rights, and sustainability in popular as well as academic venues. Martin is author or editor of twelve books, including his well-known book, Millennium Dawn (2005) and his latest books, The Earth Constitution Solution: Design for a Living Planet (2021) and Human Dignity and World Order: The Holistic Foundations of Global Democracy (2024). Martin’s blog can be found at www.oneworldrenaissance.com.
Vice-President for India and East Asia
Professor P. N. Murthy is a professional in the financial services industry, working primarily as a practicing cost and management accountant, also having served and consulted in the insurance and reinsurance industry. He is a Fellow, Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI); Fellow of Insurance Institute of India (III); Fellow of Life Management Institute FLMI USA (LOMA), and has held many similar titles. In addition, he has been actively involved in insurance education in India, and was a senior manager at MetLife India. He was adjunct faculty at Bangalore Insurance Institute for more than 10 years, among many similar roles in education settings. Murthy has been an integral part of WCPA initiatives in India, participated in numerous conferences and contributed to journals regarding global governance. He is currently Managing Trustee of WCPA India and sits on the boards of Earth Constitution Institute ECI and WCPA Global.
Vice-President for Latin America and the Caribbean
Leopoldo Cook promotes the Bolivarian philosophy, which places justice as the queen of republican virtues. An internationalist and holist, he believes we are in a civilizational transformation that will include, but will also transcend, the best of the historical civilizations. Jesús de Nazaret, Simón Bolívar, and Hugo Chávez are his fundamental inspiring leaders. Cook was founder and director of “Civil Society Ezequiel Zamora” and later founder and director of the Civil Society El Pueblo (ASOPUEBLO), which was engaged in environmental, cultural, neighborhood, urban and political activities. He was a member of the Administrative Board of the Zamora Municipality, and Councilor of the First Bolivarian Municipality of Venezuela, thanks to an intervention process led by the National Constituent Assembly. He was also President of the House of Culture “Antonio Machado” of Guatire, and Co-founder and director of the Anona, Alicia y Estanislaa Social Foundation, a nonprofit Christian institution that fosters solidarity and effective Christian charity, through personalized scholarship programs for children. In 2004 he was candidate for mayor for the Zamora Municipality of the Miranda State (Guatire-Araira) and Territorial Delegate of the Congress of the Homeland Municipality Zamora, Edo. He was Cooperative General Coordinator of Consumption and Production Pueblo Zamorano and in 2018 became Vice President for Latin America World Constitution and Parliament Association.