Thomas Ruddy is an American who has lived in Germany for the last 28 years. Thomas is on the faculty of the College of Applied Sciences in Olten, Switzerland, where he strives to reconcile information technology with sustainable development. He has just completed a 100-page study for the European Commission, DG XIII, on how the South mistrusts the North for the latter's insistence on ecological standards at the World Trade Organization. He is also working on the World's Fair 2000 in Germany, http://members.tripod.com/ruddyconsult/expo2.htm.

He edits a climate change newsletter, http://members.tripod.com/ruddyconsult/archive1999.htm. Thomas earned a B.A. from St.Lawrence University, Canton NY in 1969. He is married, and has two grown children, one in Stuttgart studying engineering and one in Boston MA studying product design.

http://www.ruddyconsult.de