Jim MacLellan

Jim participated in the 2017 and 2018 Assisi and Rome Spirituality and Sustainability Conferences as well as the 2023 Gathering II at Thomas Berry Place in New York. While working in the UK and Europe in the 1970’s, on his personal time, he was involved with the animal rights movement and formation of the Green Party in England. He contributed to the European Green Parties’ policy platform coordinating committee in Brussels for the European Parliamentary elections.

He worked in the international shipping business since 1970 and retired in 2018. He taught shipping and transportation for the international MBA program at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate Business School. For several years he conducted an annual course on trade and shipping at the Monterey Graduate School of International Policy Studies. He was a Director of the U.S. – Mexico Chamber of Commerce (Southern California), the Foreign Trade Association and the Southern California District Export Council of the U.S. Department of Commerce. He received the Stanley T. Olafson Lifetime Achievement at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce World Trade Week in 2018.