Dr.Joseph Olander is currently serving as Chairman of CCE Board of Directors

Dr. Olander eraned his Ph.D. from Indiana University, where he was awarded an NDEA Title IV Fellowship in political science with a specialty in the comparative governments and politics of China, Korea, and Japan.

Dr. Olander has served in a broad-ranging and diverse set of administrative and academic roles within higher education in the United States, China, and Australia. He served as President of The Evergreen State College, Westmar University, and Marycrest University. At the vice presidential level, he served as Executive Vice President of Florida International University, Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas in El Paso, Provost at Golden Gate University Pacific Northwest, and Vice President for the Golden Gate University System in California. Moreover, he served as an academic department chair, an academic dean, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor. At the state level, he served as Special Assistant for Higher education in the Office of the Commissioner of Education for the State of Florida. He served as Chair of the Board of Directors of Global Education Services, actively involved in, and responsible for, strategic planning and project development and training in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Pacific Basin.

Dr. Olander has authored, co-authored, and edited 48 published books of myth, poetic literature, education, cultural studies, and one of which—Run To Starlight—was given an Outstanding Book of the Year Award by The New York Times.

Dr. Olander is a lifetime and active member of the International Association of University Presidents. He has served for eight years on the Education Council of the United States Olympic Committee.

Mr. John Mullins (right side on the photo)
is currently serving as the vice Chairman of CCE Board of Directors

The photo shows his meeting with the Lieutenant Governor of the Gansu Province Mr. Ze Bazu during his visit to China in 2008. Mr. John Mullins once served as a project Superintendent in the construction industry in 1980's. In 1990's, he served as construction coordinator / combination building and fire inspector in the city of South San Francisco, then he became a Chief Building Official and Flood Plan Administrator in the city of Hillsborough. In the meantime, Mr. Mullins teaches at the College of San Mateo in the fields of Building Code, Mechanical and Energy Codes.

Mr. Bill Cook is currently serving as a CCE Board Member

Born in Pasadena, California, Mr. Bill Cook was educated at the California Institute of the Arts, Humboldt State University and Woodbury Business College where he studied fine art, music and business.

International cultural exchange activity is one of Bill Cook's specialties. During the past years, Mr. Cook has served in diverse professional and charitable capacities. He operates a real estate business that serves the San Francisco area as well as the greater United States through a network of trusted real estate professionals. He is Director of World Service Programs for the Rotary Club of Half Moon Bay, California. In the field of International youth exchanges, he directed various Exchange Programs including Group Study Exchange for professionals between Japan and Sweden and the United States, Ambassadorial Scholarships providing deserving students with the opportunity to study in foreign countries and act as cultural ambassadors, projects providing clean water for impoverished areas in Latin America, programs providing education for orphans in Africa, and many other local and international programs such as a free medical clinic in Half Moon Bay and free wheelchairs for the needy in Mexico.

Just recently, Bill Cook served as the first Director of the San Mateo County Farm Bureau Water Quality Protection Program for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, a program developed by a coalition of twenty-seven federal, state, and local agencies, public and private groups working together with cities, harbors, businesses and the agricultural community to enhance and protect the water quality in the Sanctuary and its watersheds. Mr. Cook is an expert in environmental and water quality issues, rural land management, flood management, anadromous fishery management, wetlands and waterfowl management, endangered species protection, and healthy human coexistence and interaction within natural areas. Mr. Cook was the founding President of the Natural Heritage Foundation and also served as Director of the Cook Brothers Educational Fund. He also serves as the Director of the Pescadero Foundation’s Flood, Fisheries and Wetlands Program.

Mr. Cook conceived and created “Shopping for a Better World”, the socially responsible shopping guide which sold over a million copies, was featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, and made the New York Times best sellers list. This book has been revised and re-published annually for many years and has inspired other similar socially responsible shopping guides around the world.

One other thing worth mentioning is that Mr. Cook also serves as President of the Half Moon Bay Chapter of Business Networking International. He has over five years experience as a Club Net member of Buffini & Company, the United States largest business coaching company. Proudly speaking, Mr. Cook was the Captain of the United States All-Star Latin American Dance Team that won the bronze medal for the United States in the World Championship of Formation Dancing held in Germany !