About World United
In order to fulfill our mission to end war, halt climate change, and reduce the threat of artificial intelligence, World United is creating Occupy Earth, a global civil resistance movement to pressure governments around the planet to join the World Federation. Global problems require global solutions - and global institutions to implement them. We need enforceable laws, courts, and an enforcement agency to deal effectively with these global issues—a World Federation. The world's leaders need to hear directly from their citizens that they demand this essential evolution of governance.
Roger Abbiss
Roger is the founder and executive director of World United. A lifelong entrepreneur, he has created enterprises ranging from telecom to food service. Believing that business could, and should be a force for good, Roger increasingly focused his business enterprises on social and environmental concerns. He is co-founder of MRKTBOX, a business that connects consumers to small organic farms via grocery, produce, and coffee delivery. The company is a certified B Corp. and was named one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies by the Globe & Mail in 2023. While researching a political-thriller screenplay, Roger discovered the World Federation movement. In recognition of the multiple existential risks that we now face, and the inability of our current systems and institutions to adequately address them, he now spends his time urgently promoting "Occupy Earth", a global grassroots movement to establish a World Federation. Roger is a board member of The World Federalist Movement - Canada (WFM-Canada).
Marzieh Darling-Donnelly
Marzieh Darling-Donnelly is a youth activist and frequent worker/youth delegate at various NGOs aiming to better their world. Marzieh has always been particularly passionate about the need for a World Federation. She has been a speaker and researcher at COP26 and COP27 at the United Nations, has worked with organizations such as the International Environmental Forum, and attended the High-Level Political Forum in 2022. She was also a speaker at "The Justice Conference" in the Netherlands and at "Ethical Business Building the Future" in Italy. She runs a social justice community organization called “The Coffeehouse,” which has a community of over 700 people who have converse about the betterment of their communities and the role of youth in society. Marzieh is finishing her undergraduate degree in International Relations, history, and economics with a focus on global governance. Marzieh is a director at World United.
Board of Advisors
Brigid Rowan
Brigid Rowan is an energy economist with over 25 years experience in energy and regulatory economics. She is a senior energy economist at The Goodman Group, Ltd., Berkeley, California. Ms Rowan's practice is informed by evidence that an energy transition, characterized by structural transformation of our energy systems, is required to address the climate emergency. She has examined economic development and environmental impacts of large energy supply, infrastructure and transportation projects, North American and global oil, gas, coal and electricity markets, as well as regulation of natural gas, electricity and renewables. She has co-authored reports and expert testimony on the most controversial oil, gas and coal projects in North America, including crude oil pipelines (Keystone XL, Enbridge Line 9B, Trans Mountain), natural gas pipelines, and energy logistics facilities. Brigid holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs with a specialization in International Political Economy and Environment and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. From 2006-2020, she served on the Board of Greenpeace Canada and as Co-Chair from 2017 - 2020.
Dr Farsan Ghassim
Dr Ghassim is the Junior Research Fellow in Politics, Queen's College, University of Oxford . His research concentrates on global governance and survey methods with an aim to find out how people want the world to be governed, and to help other scholars conduct better public opinion research. Before joining Queen’s, Dr. Ghassim held postdoctoral fellowships at the universities of Lund and Maastricht. A former management consultant at Bain & Company, he also worked at the German Foreign Ministry, for the President of the European Parliament, and at the United Nations headquarters in New York. He holds a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford, an MA in Global Affairs from Yale University, and a BSc in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Dr. Arthur Lyon Dahl
Dr. Arthur Lyon Dahl is President of the International Environment Forum and a retired senior official of UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme. Dr. Dahl has over 50 years experience in sustainability, international environmental assessment and governance, and systems science. A biologist by training (AB, Stanford University; PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara) specializing in small islands and coral reefs, he lived and worked for many years in the Pacific Islands and Africa before settling in Geneva, Switzerland. He has participated in UN Conferences on environment, sustainable development and climate change, including Stockholm 1972, Johannesburg 2002, Copenhagen 2009, Rio 2012 and Paris 2015, and was in the secretariat for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit, Rio de Janeiro 1992). Dr. Dahl has been a frequent consultant on sustainability, environmental assessment, and indicators to the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, UNESCO and UNEP. He is also co-author of "Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century" published in 2020.
