Mr. Louis J. Appignani is a successful entrepreneur from Miami, Florida. He was born in Manhattan. Founder and chairman of LouJA Realty Inc., he was the chairman and founder of Barbizon International Modeling School until 2000. After serving in the US Army, he graduated from the Baruch School, New York City and earned an MS degree from Columbia University in finance. He attended postgraduate studies in economics at Indiana University. He has served on the boards of a number of professional and civic organizations and in 2001 established the Louis J. Appignani Foundation.

The Louis J. Appignani Foundation's fundamental premise is that all mankind is part of the same family, sharing one home... planet earth, and that the root cause of the world's problems are due to differences of religion, race and nationality. Barriers created by faith based ideology must be replaced with the Foundation's "holy trinity" of Humanism, Science and Futurism if our planet is to survive.

The Foundation will therefore encourage secular activities that can result in significant, vital and measurable long term cumulative effects on our planet's population and environment. This can best be accomplished by supporting creative free thought organizations that spread humanistic values, expand creative educational opporunities, encourage long-range critical thinking and emphasize scientific reasoning.