Allan Matthews' wide-ranging career included stints as Geologist, U. S. Department of the Interior; Program officer and desk officer for several nations in the State Department's Agency for International Development; and Editor and Publisher of the "Developing Country Courier" newsletter, and paperback books on U. S. budget and political federation.

Allan created the www.unitedpeople.org website seeking signatures, before the U. S. election in 2000, on a petition for a national initiative and referendum system. He wrote "Sovereigns - Peacefully - Take Charge," a book urging amendments to the U. S. Constitution including provisions for initiative and referendum systems, and initiated a citizens convention in 1998 at The Hague, Netherlands, where an illustrative transnational constitution was drafted that include provisions for initiative democracy. Matthews also chaired an Alliance for Democracy committee urging constitutional amendments.

Among his other achievements, Allan was Editor and Chief, Minerals Yearbook Section, U. S. Department of the Interior; Director of the Association to Unite the Democracies; Assistant Director, Staff of President's Materials Policy Commission; Materials Consultant to National Security Resources Board and the Global 2000 Report to the President; Delegate to United Nations Global Modelling Conference; and founder of the Reston (Virginia) Forum and Northern Virginia chapter of 20/20 Vision.

Allan Matthews received his B.A. from Carleton College and his M.S. from Antioch College. He completed post-graduate study in geology at Johns Hopkins University and in naval operations at Destroyer School, Norfolk, Va.