He served as executive director of the Federation of Alberta Students from 1977-79.

During the 1980s, he became the executive director of the Canadian Federation of Independent Petroleum Marketers.

His father is the executive director of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Bedford.

On 1 January 1998 he became the new director of the Federation of Norwegian Process Industries, a position he left in 2004.

"These are the kind of people we want," said Dan Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

He chaired the Israeli Olympic Committee, and was a director of the Asian Federation for Sports.

The bridegroom's father is a regional director of the Federation for Small Businesses in London.

"This time we are going to be a little more scientific," said Rachelle Horowitz, political director of the American Federation of Teachers.

Ivan Oelrich, the director of the Federation of American Scientists' strategic security project, said he worried that the whole "cooperative" approach might be flawed.

Andrew Lipman, executive director of the Jewish Federation, is sympathetic to the survivors' gripes, but only to a point.