Tony Judge (born in Australia) is the instigator of the Union of Imaginable Associations — following his retirement in May 2007 as Director of Communications and Research at the Union of International Associations (UIA). He had held this operational position since the 1970s in addition to his formal role as Assistant Secretary-General. Based in Brussels for the century since its founding in 1907, the UIA has been a self-financed, international, nonprofit, research clearinghouse for information on all international nonprofit organizations and their preoccupations.
His continuing responsibility, dating from 1972, had been the development of interlinked databases on: these international organizations, their meetings, their strategies, the problems on which these focus, and their values, together with associated databases on modes of human development, bibliographical data, and biographical profiles — and on the networks linking these various kinds of entity. Over that period he was specifically responsible for publication of this information in a range of reference media — including the Yearbook of International Organizations, the International Congress Calendar — and on enabling web access to their hyperlinked content. In particular, with the financial assistance of Mankind 2000 of which he became Executive Director, he developed the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential for the UIA from 1972 through to its current online integration with these other databases.
These interests, whether professional or personal, have been enriched by involvement with a wide range of international bodies and meetings, whether as organizer, speaker, panelist, contributor or facilitator.
Within the new context of the Union of Imaginable Associations and its associated initiatives, he is continuing this research — now more specifically focused on the challenges of eliciting new insights, and making more effective use of any relevant knowledge, in response to the urgent challenges of governance and meaningful lifestyles in an increasingly complex environment.
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