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2010 U.S.Islamic World ForumWriting the Next Chapter

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2010 U.S.-ISLAMIC WORLD FORUM

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WELCOME

Welcome and Ahlan Wa Sahlan!On behal o the Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, housedwithin the Saban Center or Middle East Policy, we are delighted to welcome you to the2010 U.S.-Islamic World Forum. ogether with the State o Qatar, the Saban Centerannually convenes this Forum under the gracious auspices o HRH Sheikh Hamad binKhalia Al-Tani, the Emir o Qatar. We salute his vision and leadership in enabling usto come together or three days o thoughtul discussion and transormative dialogue onissues o mutual importance.Since our last Forum we have witnessed a signicant shit in the dialogue between theUnited States and global Muslim communities. A new American President has endeav-ored to set a new and positive tone or engagement, exemplied by his historic remarksin Cairo. Over the next three days we will explore how much has changed and whether

this altered discourse has been translated into substantive policy recommendations andprograms. In recognizing the need or a sustained civic inrastructure to coordinate andcomplement the activities o our partners in the non-governmental and private sectors, wehave designed a special session this year entitled Maintaining the Momentum: A StrategySession to Develop Public and Private Partnerships.Whether you are joining us as a policy maker, opinion leader, activist or under we hopeyou will nd the 2010 orum an opportunity to share your talent with other leaders likeyoursel to create impact, whether through the working group or which you were invitedor through the wider ramework o U.S. Muslim global engagement.Please also join us in taking this opportunity to recognize and thank our partners in this

endeavor. Tis includes the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister or Qatar, HE SheikhHamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Tani, and the Ministry o Foreign Aairs or their support.In particular, we also thank HE Mohammad Abdullah Mutib Al-Rumaihi, Assistant For-eign Minister or Follow-Up Aairs, and the entire Permanent Committee or OrganizingConerences sta or their support and dedication in organizing the orum.I we can be o assistance, please do not hesitate to come to our inormation desk centrallylocated in the lobby o the Sheraton.

Tank you or joining us. We look orward to meeting you, and togetherwriting thenext chapter.

Dr. Stephen R. Grand Durriya BadaniFellow and Director Project ManagerProject on U.S. Relations with the Project on U.S. Relations with theIslamic World Islamic World

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aGEnda at a GLanCE

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010

7:00pM-9:00pM regisio

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2010

9:00AM-11:00AM Welcome/regisio

11:00AM-12:30pM An Introduction to the Goals of the Islamic World Forum and anOpportunity to Meet Your Fellow Conference Participants

12:45pM-1:45pM Luch AL hUbARA ReStAURAnt, SheRAtOn hOteL

2:00pM-3:30pM Towards a More Robust U.S.-Muslim Engagement: From Concept toConcrete Outcomes*

3:45pM-4:00pM Bek

4:00pM-5:30pM Wokig Gou Sessios

5:30pM-6:00pM Bek

6:00pM die Oeig ple: Writing the Next Chapter*

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2010

9:00AM-10:45AM A Fresh Start? Has Obama Initiated a New Beginning in Relationswith Muslim Communities?*

10:45AM-11:00AM Coffee Bek

11:00AM-12:45pM Wokig Gou Sessios



2:15pM-4:15pM Maintaining the Momentum: A Strategy Session to Develop Publicand Private Parternships (Special Session)

4:30pM Offsie die Excusio

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2010

9:00AM-10:45AM Fragile States: Shared Challenges to Ensuring Regional Stability*

10:45AM-11:00AM Coffee Bek

11:00AM-12:30pM Wokig Gou Sessios



3:30pM-4:45pM Communicating the Results: Working Group Presentations*

5:00pM-7:00pM Closig remks Fewell receio

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SESSIOnS In dEtaIL

DATE/TIME SESSION LOCATIONSu11:00AM-12:30pM

An Introduction to the Goals of the Inslamic World Forum and anOpportunity to Meet Your Fellow Conference Participants

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MeetIng ROOM

Su2:00pM-3:30pM

Towards a More Robust U.S.-Muslim Engagement: From Concept toConcrete Outcomes

Tis session will highlight governmental and non-governmental eorts to buildpartnerships between the United States and Muslim communities. How do we de-ne engagement and move rom dialogue toward enduring impact, sounder policiesand sustainable programs and initiatives. What are concrete examples o this?

AL-MAhA

MeetIng ROOM

Su9:00AM-10:45AM

A Fresh Start? Has Obama Initiated a New Beginning in Relationswith Muslim Communities?

In his historic Cairo address, President Obama sought to create a new beginningin relations with the global Muslim communitya relationship based on mutualrespect and the pursuit o mutual interests. Has the President succeeded and has thesubstance o U.S. oreign policy actually changed? A centerpiece o the speech wasthat the U.S. would reengage in the Arab-Israeli peace process. Has the U.S. madeany progress toward a nal resolution o the conict? Tis session will address boththe administrations approach to the Arab-Israeli conict and broader U.S. oreignpolicy aecting global Muslim communities.

SALWAbALLROOM

Su2:15pM-4:15pM

Maintaining the Momentum: A Strategy Session to Develop Publicand Private Partnerships (Invited Participants Only)

Te goal o this special session is to catalyze ideas into action, so as to create acivic inrastructure or partnerships between U.S. and global Muslim communi-ties. Select representatives rom oundations, businesses and governemtns will cometogether to share inormation, identiy sources o nancial support and encouragecollaborations. By outlining present initiatives, activities and uture areas o em-phasis, assembled public and private stakeholders will identiy areas o strength andcomplementarities, in addition to examing the possibilities or uture partnerships.

We will also examine metrics or evaluating progress and success as we prepare orthe 2011 U.S.-Islamic Forum in Washington, D.C.

AL RAyyAn

ROOM

Mo9:00AM-10:45AM

Fragile States: Shared Challenges to Ensuring Regional Stability

Weak states pose a threat to the security and stability o many parts o the Muslim

world. Tis session will examine the causes o state weakness, its domestic and re-gional consequences and potential policy responses. How do the volatile internaldynamics o Aghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, and Yemen aect regional stabilityand unity and what can be done about it?

SALWA

bALLROOM

Mo3:30pM-4:45pM

Communicating the Results: Working Group Presentations

Tis session will allow the working group coveners to present the key ndings o theirsession with a ocus on recommendations or policymakers and private sector unders.

AL MAhA

MeetIng ROOM

Mo5:00pM-7:00pM

Closing Remarks and Farewell Reception SALWAbALLROOM


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WOrKInG GrOUpS

Role of Religious Leaders and Religious Communities in Diplomacy

COnVEnErS

Bishop John B. Chane and Reverend Canon John L. PetersonWashington National Cathedral

Recent incidents such as the Swiss reerendum, the Geert Wilders video, and the Danish cartoon controversy havedemonstrated the renewed role that religion plays in oreign policy. Religious leaders and the communities theyserve have the capacity either to temper or exacerbate disputes that arise as a result o religious or cultural dier-ences, helping determine whether they remain localized orin a world o instant communicationsspiral rapidlyinto more global oreign policy conicts. Religious leaders and networks have also played important roles in haltingethnic violence, ostering reconciliation within states and making signicant humanitarian and development con-tributions in communities. Tis working group examines both the potential and limits on the role religious leadersand communities can play in diplomacy and seeks to build partnerships among religious leaders or this purpose.

partICIpantS

The Reverend Canon John L. PetersonWashington National Cathedral

The Right Reverend John B. Chane

Episcopal Bishop o Washington

Jasser AudaFaculty o Islamic Studies at Qatar Foundation

Sheikh Abdullah Bin BayyahKing Abdul Aziz University

The Right Reverend Suheil DawaniAnglican Bishop o Jerusalem

Claudette HabeschCaritas Jerusalem

Janab Mehlam Yunus HakimuddinDawat-e-Hadiyah

Anwer HasanMaryland Governors Commission onMiddle Eastern American Aairs

Imam Yahya HendiGeorgetown University

Reverend Joel C. HunterNorthland Church

Ayatollah Ahmad Iravani

Catholic University o America

Imam Mohamed MagidIslamic Society o North America

Reverend Hady MahfouzHoly Spirit Seminary in Jerusalem

Dalia MogahedGallup Center or Muslim Studies

Theodore Cardinal McCarrickRoman Catholic Church

Rabbi David SapersteinReligious Action Center o Reorm Judaism

His Beatitude TheophilosGreek Orthodox Patriarch o Jerusalem


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Democracy and Islamic Parties: Opportunities and Challenges

COnVEnErS

Dr. Bridget WelshAssociate Proessor o Political Science at

Singapore Management University

andDr. Syed Azman Syed AhmadCentral Working Committee Member and State Assemblyman

or Kuala rengganu (Islamic Party o Malaysia)

Troughout the Muslim world, Islamic parties are playing a major role in national politics. Oten lumped togetherwith organizations that use Islam in violent struggles and mistakenly tied to terrorism and intolerance, Islamic par-ties tend to be wrongly pegged as undemocratic and extremist. Few link Islamic parties with democracy andrecognize the crucial role many o these parties play in representation, governance and the promotion o rights. Tispanel will bring together representatives rom Islamic parties and the Western world to discuss how these parties en-gage in democratic processes and the challenges they ace in doing so. Te aim o the discussion is to start a dialoguewith Islamic parties over their potential role in strengthening democracy as well as to promote a better understand-

ing o how their participation in national and international politics is evolving.

partICIpantS

Bridget WelshSingapore Management University

Syed Azman Syed AhmadIslamic Party o Malaysia

Salah Ali AbdulrahmanNational Islamic Forum (Bahrain)

Anas AltikritiIslamic Party o Iraq

Ghaffur AzizJamaat-e-Islami

Safrullah Ahmad DipatuanMoro Islamic Liberation Front

Temal Karamolloglu

Saadet Party

Joe Kleinime Magazine

Siti Mariah binti MahmudIslamic Party o Malaysia

Quinn MechamU.S. Department o State

Hamdie Morsi

Vali NasrU.S. Department o State

Nursanita NasutionProsperous Justice Party (PKS)

Abdul Aziz OmariMember o Parliament (Morocco)

Mahazir OsmanIslamic Front

Barnett RubinU.S. Department o State

Sabri SamirahMiddle East Studies Center

Abdirisak Waberi

Islamic Association o Sweden

Tamara Cofman WittesU.S. Department o State


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Transformative Partnerships in U.S.-Muslim World Relations: EmpoweringNetworks for Community Development and Social Change

COnVEnEr

Peter MandavilleGeorge Mason University

Muslim populations around the world consistently dene their chie priorities and concerns in relation to issues suchas development, justice, and economic security. Tis working group will bring together thought leaders, communityorganizers, and oundations rom the United States and the Muslim world to identiy areas o mutual interest and begindesigning actionable programs that emphasize sustainable community development and social innovation. Seeking toharness the appetite or social transormation among young people in the United States and the Muslim world, theworkshop will build a network o change leaders, allowing them to share their experiences and explore new collabora-tions. Te workshop will have two main areas o ocus: developing ways to oster greater involvement in communitydevelopment, and exploring the transormative potential o innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology to both ad-dress inequalities and support existing community networks. Concrete deliverables will include recommendations orspecic programs and initiatives as well as a set o best practice guidelines or designing transormative social networks.

partICIpantS

Peter MandavilleGeorge Mason University

Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-RashidMosque o Islamic Brotherhood

Junaid AhmadLahore University o Management Sciences

Cherif Mohamed Aly Adara

Mozdahir International Institute

Aysha AlkusayerAlwaleed bin alal Foundation

Shaykh Jihad BrownDeputy Director, abah Foundation

Asha Hagi ElmiSave Somali Women and Children

Junaid JamshedPhilanthropist

Amr KhaledRight Start Foundation

Imtiaz KhanCongress o Muslim World Philanthropists

Kalsoom LakhaniML Resources Social Vision

Kim McQuayAsia Foundation

Nicco MeleEchoDitto

Fuad NahdiRadical Middle Way

Rami Nashishibi

Inner-City Muslim Action Network

Iqbal Noor AliAga Khan Development Network

Alec RossU.S. State Department

Anas SaidiAssociation or Pesantren and Community Develop-ment (P3M)

Taleb Salhab

Rockeeller Brothers Fund

Kanwar SchahzabIqbal Academy

Sheikha Aisha bint Faleh Al ThaniQatar Supreme Education Council

Doug WilsonHoward Gilman Foundation


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Scientifc, Intellectual and Governance Cooperation onEmerging Environmental Challenges

COnVEnEr

Amit PandyaSenior Associate and Director o the Regional Voices:

ransnational Challenges project at the Henry L. Stimson Center

Te working group will bring together scientists, engineers, educators, economists and entrepreneurs, technicalsubject experts, experts in science policy and governance, and observers and analysts o politics and o philosophicaland intellectual trends. Te group will identiy the principal economic, social and natural challenges posed by envi-ronmental change, and their principal causes (demographic, economic, and social). It will consider the availabilityo scientic and other intellectual resources and institutions relevant to these, and will discuss existing and potentialcooperation, among sectors and disciplines and at the regional, inter-regional and global levels. Te workshop willidentiy, consolidate and expand existing networks, and oster creation o additional ones. We will emphasize inte-gral multi-disciplinary approaches to economic, social and environmental trends.

partICIpantSAmit PandyaHenry L. Stimson Center

Vaughan TurekianAAAS

Shere AbbottWhite House Ofce on Scienceand echnology Policy

Khursheed Ahmad

Institute o Policy Studies

Hayfaa AlmudhafKuwait Institute or ScienticResearch

Lara CampbellCenter or International Scienceand echnology Advancement

Dia El Din El QuosyEgyptian Ministry o WaterResources and Irrigation

Mohamed El-RaeyUniversity o Alexandria

Ismid HadadNational Council on ClimateChange (Indonesia)

Syed Iqbal HasnainEnergy and Resources Institute

Mohamed HassanTird World Academy o Science

Farkhonda Hassan

National Council or Women inEgypt

Asclepias IndriyantoIndonesian Institute or EnergyEconomics

Shafqat KakakhelSustainable Development PolicyInstitute

Bill LawrenceU.S. Department o State

David MichelHenry L. Stimson Center

Wael MuallaUniversity o Damascus

Norm NeuriterAAAS

Ainun NishatInternational Union orConservation o Nature

Atiq Rahman

Bangladesh Centre or AdvancedStudies

Amina Rasul-BernardoAsian Institute o Management

Youba SokonaSahara and Sahel Observatory

Moneef ZoubiIslamic Academy o Sciences


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New Media to Further Global Engagement

COnVEnEr

al-Husein MadhanyIndependent Consultant

Tis working group will explore opportunities or expanding the instruments available to oreign policy-makers toengage weak states. Fragmented and internally-conicted states can be difcult to inuence by traditional oreignpolicy means and urther can be difcult to understand through traditional media outlets. New models o civil so-ciety action enabled by new mediaand more broadly grounded civic mediashow potential or reducing internalconict and promoting social trust among tribal, ethnic, and religious groups. Bringing new media communicationstogether with model civil society programs creates more powerul opportunities to enhance understanding o theseinternal conicts and thereby address them in ways that will help accelerate social and political change. We will ac-complish this by identiying tools in any media that can oster or enhance civic engagement through case studiesthat span the globe. Tis working group will create policy recommendations on how best to employ civic media, aswell as new media inormation technology communication tools, to harness the muted voices o civil societies to beactive partners in promoting oreign policy objectives by working or economic, social, and political reorm.

partICIpantS

al-Husein N. MadhanyIndependent Consultant

Lawrence ChickeringEducate Girls Globally

Vishakha DesaiAsia Society

Shereen El FekiAmerican University in Cairo

Philip N. HowardUniversity o Washington

Safeena HusainEducate Girls Globally

Ali JaberAmerican University in Dubai

Hani KhojaElixir Marketing Consultancy

Simon MainwaringMainwaring Creative

Laurie MeadoffCancer Schmancer

Riyaad MintyAl-Jazeera Labs

Jahid MohseniMoby Group

Cory OndrejkaSecond Lie

Abdul Aziz al-Nuaimi

Saafr RabbUSC Annenberg School

Cynthia SchneiderBrookings Institution

Philip SeibUSC Center or Public Diplomacy

Abbi ShabazzMedia Gateway Dubai

Amra TareenAll Voices

Ibrahim al-Turki

Wa Corp

Huma YusufDawn.com


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LISt OF partICIpantS

Shere AbbottDeputy Science Advisor, WhiteHouse Ofce on Science andechnology Policy

Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-RashidMosque o Islamic Brotherhood

Mohammed Mahfoodh AlArdhiBoard Member, Investcorp andBrookings International AdvisoryBoard

Hady Amr

Fellow and Director, BrookingsDoha Center, Saban Center orMiddle East Policy, Te BrookingsInstitution

Durriya BadaniProject Manager, Project on U.S.Relations with the Islamic World,Saban Center or Middle EastPolicy, Te Brookings Institution

Jihad Brown

Deputy Directorabah Foundation

Lara CampbellDirector, InternationalPartnerships, Center orInternational Science andechnology Advancement

Gail ChalefDirector o Communications,Foreign Policy, Te BrookingsInstitution

John Bryson ChaneBishop o Washington,Washington National Cathedral

David Chavern

Chie Operating Ofcer andSenior Vice President,U.S. Chamber o Commerce

Lawrence ChickeringFounder, Educate Girls Globally

Aysha ChowdhryResearch Analyst and PublicationsManager, Project on U.S.Relations with the Islamic World,

Saban Center or Middle EastPolicy, Te Brookings Institution

Vishakha DesaiPresident, Asia Society

Jeffrey FeltmanAssistant Secretary or NearEastern Aairs, United StatesDepartment o State

Marc Ginsberg

President, Layalina Productions,Inc.

Stephen R. GrandFellow and Director, Project onU.S. Relations with the IslamicWorld, Saban Center or MiddleEast Policy, Te BrookingsInstitution

Mohamed HagmagidVice President, Islamic Society oNorth America (ISNA)

Shadi HamidDeputy Director, Brookings DohaCenter; Fellow, Saban Center orMiddle East Policy, Te Brook-ings Institution

Edward Jack HardinFounding Partner, Rogers andHardin LLP

Anwer HasanChairman, Maryland GovernorsCommission on Middle EasternAmerican Aairs

Yahya HendiChaplain, Georgetown University

Richard HolbrookeSpecial Representative orAghanistan and Pakistan, UnitedStates Department o State

Phil HowardAssociate Proessor, University oWashington

Joel HunterPastor, Northland Church

Rashad HussainDeputy Associate Council to thePresident, Te White House

Martin S. IndykVice President and DirectorForeign Policy StudiesTe Brookings Institution

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Benjamin JacobsManaging Member and Founder,JBG Holding Company

Imtiaz KhanCongress o Muslim WorldPhilanthropists

Joe KleinColumnist, ime Magazine

Kalsoom LakhaniDirector, ML Resources, LLC

Muslim LakhaniChairman and CEO o MLResources and ML PrivateInvestments, LLC.

Bill LawrenceAdvisor or Science Partnerships,United States Department oState

al-Husein MadhanyIndependent Consultant

Simon MainwaringPresident, Mainwaring Creative

Alan MakovskySenior Proessional Sta Member,House Committee on ForeignAairs

Peter MandavilleAssociate Proessor oGovernment & PoliticsCo-Director, Center or GlobalStudies, George Mason University

Theodore McCarrickArchbishop Emeritus oWashington, Catholic Church

Michael Kim McQuayRegional Director or Law andGovernance, Asia Foundation

Laurie MeadoffCEO, Cancer Schmancer

Quinn MechamMember, Ofce o Policy PlanningSta, United States Departmento State

Nicco MelePresident & Co-Founder,echoditto.com

David MichelSenior AssociateDirector, Environmental SecurityTe Henry L. Stimson Center

Dalia MogahedSenior Analyst and ExecutiveDirector, Gallup Center orMuslim Studies

Fuad NahdiDirector, Radical Middle WayUnItEd KInGdOM

Rami NashishibiExecutive Director, Inner-CityMuslim Action Network

Vali NasrSenior Advisor, Ofce o SpecialRepresentative or Aghanistanand Pakistan, United StatesDepartment o State

Shuja NawazDirector, South Asia Center, TeAtlantic Council

Norm NeureiterSenior Advisor, Center or Science

Diplomacy, American Associationor the Advancement o Science

Iqbal Noor AliSenior Advisor,Aga Khan Development Network

Michael E. OHanlonSenior Fellow, Foreign PolicyStudies, Te Brookings Institution

Cory OndrejkaCo-Creator, Second Lie

Farah PandithSpecial Representative or MuslimCommunities, United StatesDepartment o State

Amit PandyaSenior Associate, Te Henry L.Stimson Center

John L. PetersonCanon, Center or Global Justiceand Reconciliation, WashingtonNational Cathedral

Kenneth PollackDirector, Saban Center orMiddle East Policy, Te BrookingsInstitution

Saafr RabbSenior Advisor to the Dean,Annenberg School orCommunications and Journalism,

University o Southern Caliornia

Pradeep RamamurthySenior Director or GlobalEnagagement, Te White House

Bruce RiedelSenior Fellow, Saban Center orMiddle East Policy, Te BrookingsInstitution

Alec RossSenior Adviser on Innovation,United States Department oState

Barnett RubinDirector o Studies and SeniorFellow, Center on InternationalCooperation, New York University


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Taleb SalhabProgram Director, Peace andSecurity, Rockeeller BrothersFund

David SapersteinDirector, Religious Action Center

o Reorm Judaism

Cynthia SchneiderNonresident Senior Fellow,Te Brookings Institution;Distinguished Proessor inthe Practice o DiplomacyGeorgetown University

Philip SeibDirector, USC Center or Public

Diplomacy

Abbi Shabazz

Managing Director, Exwaze, LLC

Christal L. ShraderProject Assistant, Project on U.S.Relations with the Islamic World,Saban Center or Middle EastPolicy, Te Brookings Institution

Fatema Sumar

Proessional Sta Member, SenateCommittee on Foreign Relations

Strobe TalbottPresident, Te BrookingsInstitution

Amra TareenCEO, All Voices

Shibley TelhamiNonresident Senior Fellow, TeBrookings InstitutionAnwar Sadat Chair or Peaceand Development, University oMaryland, College Park

Vaughan TurekianChie International Ofcer,American Association or theAdvancement o Science

Abdirisak WaberiChairman, Islamic Association o

SwedenSWEdEn

Doug WilsonExecutive Vice President, TeHoward Gilman Foundation

Tamara Cofman-WittesDeputy Assistant Secretary orNear Eastern Aairs, United StatesDepartment o State

Elias ZerhouniUnited States Science Envoy,United States Department oState

Ahmed ZewailUnited States Science Envoy,United States Department oState

Salah Ali AbdulrahmanNational Islamic ForumBaHraIn

Abdul Aziz bin Ali bin RashidAl NuaimiChairman, Green BaseEnvironmental ServicesUAE

Mohammed Abdullah MutibAl-RumaihiAssistant Foreign Minister orFollow-Up AairsQatar

Aisha bint Faleh Al ThaniQatar Supreme Education CouncilQatar

Hamad bin Jassim Al-ThaniPrime Minister and ForeignMinister o State o Qatar

Qatar

Ibrahim al-TurkiWa CorpSaUdI araBIa

Aysha AlkusayerAssistant Executive Manager,Alwaleed bin alal FoundationSaUdI araBIa

Hayfaa AlmudhafDirector o the Public Relationsand Publications Division, KuwaitInstitute or Scientic ResearchKUWaIt

Anas AltikritiIslamic Party o IraqIraQ

Cherif Mohamed Aly AdaraFounder, Mozdahir International

InstituteSEnEGaL

Jasser AudaAssociate Proessor in PublicPolicy Program, Faculty o IslamicStudies, Qatar FoundationQatar

Abdallah Bin BayyahKing Abdulaziz UniversitySaUdI araBIa

Suheil DawaniAnglican Bishop in JerusalempaLEStInIan tErrItOrIES

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Shereen El FekiAmerican University o CairoAdvisor, MeedanEGypt

Dia El Din El QuosyAdvisor, Ministry o Water

Resources and IrrigationEGypt

Mohamed El RaeyProessor o EnvironmentalPhysics, University o AlexandriaEGypt

Asha Hagi ElmiChairperson, Save Somali Womenand ChildrenSOMaLIa

Recep Tayyip ErdoganPrime Minister, Republic ourkeytUrKEy

Nabil FahmyDean o the School o PublicAairs, American University inCairoEGypt

Ashraf GhaniChairman, Institute or StateEectivenessaFGHanIStan

Claudette HabeschSecretary General, CaritasJerusalempaLEStInIan tErrItOrIES

Ismid HadadChair, Working Group on Finan-cial Mechanism, National Councilon Climate Change o the Repub-lic o IndonesiaIndOnESIa

Farkhonda HassanSecretary General, NationalCouncil or Women in EgyptEGypt

Mohamed HassanPresident, Academy o Sciences

or the Developing WorldSUdan

Saad Eddin IbrahimChairman, Ibn Khaldun Centeror Development StudiesEGypt

Ahmad IravaniProessor, Catholic University oAmericaIran

Ali JaberDean o the MohammedBin Rashid School oCommunication, Te AmericanUniversity in DubaiUaE

Temel KaramollogluVice President, Saadet PartytUrKEy

Amr KhaledChairman o Right StartFoundation InternationalEGypt

Hani KhojaOwner, Elixir MarketingConsultancySaUdI araBIa

Hady MahfouzPresident, Holy Spirit SeminaryLEBanOn

Abdul Salam MajaliPresident, Islamic Academy oSciences

JOrdan

Riyaad MintySenior New Media Analyst,

Al-JazeeraQatar

Jahid MohseniDirector and CEO, Moby Group

aFGHanIStan

Hamdie MorsiEGypt

Wael MuallaPresident, University o DamascusSyrIa

Abdul Aziz OmariMember o Parliament

MOrOCCO

Mahazir OsmanIslamic FrontSUdan

Sabri SamirahDirector o the Studies Unit,Middle East Studies Center

JOrdan

Youba Sokona

Executive Secretary, Sahara andSahel ObservatorytUnISIa

TheophilosGreek Orthodox Patriarch oJerusalemJErUSaLEM

Moneef ZoubiDirector General, Islamic

Academy o SciencesJOrdan


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Junaid Ahmad

Lahore University o ManagementSciencespaKIStan

Khursheed AhmadChairman, Institute o PolicyStudiespaKIStan

Syed Azman Syed AhmadCentral Working CommitteeMember and State Assemblyman,Pan-Islamic Party o MalaysiaMaLaySIa

M.J. AkbarChairman and Director oPublications, Covert MagazineIndIa

Ghaffur AzizJamaat-e-IslamipaKIStan

Safrullah DipatuanMoro Islamic Liberation Front(MILF)pHILIppInES

Mehlum HakimuddinDirector, Attalim, Dawat-e-HadiyahIndIa

Syed Iqbal HasnainSenior Fellow, Te Energy and

Resources InstituteIndIa

Safeena HusainExecutive Director, Educate GirlsGloballyIndIa

Anwar IbrahimLeader o ParliamentaryOpposition

MaLaySIa

Asclepias IndriyantoExecutive Director, IndonesianInstitute or Energy EconomicsIndOnESIa

Junaid JamshedPhilanthropistpaKIStan

Shafqat Kakakhel

Advisor on Environment,Sustainable Development PolicyInstitutepaKIStan

Siti Mariah binti MahmudPan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS)

MaLaySIa

Nursanita NasutionProsperous Justice Party (PKS)IndOnESIa

Ainun NishatSenior Advisor, ClimateChange, International Union or

Conservation o NatureBanGLadESH

Atiq RahmanExecutive Director, BangladeshCenter or Advanced StudiesBanGLadESH

Amina RasulAsian Institute o ManagementpHILIppInES

Anas SaidiDirector, Pesantren andCommunity Development (P3M)IndOnESIa

Kunwar SchahzebDirector, Iqbal AcademypaKIStan

Bridget WelshAssociate Proessor, Singapore

Management UniversitySInGapOrE

Huma YusufFeatures Editor, DAWNnewspaperpaKIStan

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BIOGrapHIES

Salah Ali AbdulrahmanBaHraInSalah Ali Abdulrahman is theDeputy Speaker o the Islamic Na-tional Party and currently serves asa member o the Council o Rep-resentatives o the Kingdom oBahrain. He is also the President

o the National Islamic Forum and in 1992 received

his Medical Degree in Family Medicine rom the ArabBoard o Medical Specializations in Syria.

Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-RashidUnItEd StatES Al-Hajj alib Abdur-Rashid isthe religious and spiritual leader(Imam) o Te Mosque o IslamicBrotherhood Inc. He is now a VicePresident (Deputy Amir) o thatorganization. He serves nationally

as the Deputy Amir o Te Muslim Alliance in North

America. He is the co-ounder o the Arican-Arican American Muslim Commission on HIV/AIDS, anda member o the Advisory Committee o the Interna-tional Muslim Leaders Consultation on HIV/AIDS.He is the author oA Muslim Maniesto on DarurandHealing Indigenous Muslim Families in America. TeImam is the host o a monthly Harlem-based radioshow, entitled Prophetic Echoes, on WHCR (90.3 FM,or whcr.org) in New York City.

Junaid S. Ahmad

paKIStanJunaid S. Ahmad has a Juris Doc-torate rom the College o Williamand Mary, USA. He is currently aPh.D. candidate in the Depart-ment o Religious Studies at theUniversity o Cape own, and is

also a aculty member in the Faculty o Law and Policy,Lahore University o Management Sciences (LUMS).

He served as president o the U.S.-based NationalMuslim Law Students Association (NMLSA), and ison the board o the Muslim Peace Fellowship. He hasbeen a longtime human rights activist. He was on theExecutive Board o the Domestic Violence ResourceProject. His research interests include political Islam,globalization, and social movements, and he has lec-tured and written extensively on these topics.

Khursheed AhmadpaKIStanKhursheed Ahmad is a renownedscholar, economist and Islamicactivist. He is the ounding chairo the Institute o Policy Stud-ies in Pakistan. He has written,edited, and translated more than

70 books in English and Urdu. His in-depth compara-tive study o the oriental as well as occidental philoso-phies in religion, academics, economics, constitutionalmatters and his commitment to the cause o human-

ity has led him to be entrusted with key positions inthe national, as well as international organizations onthese socioeconomic and other multidimensional dis-ciplines. In addition, he has also been awarded withthree honorary degrees. He has also served as FederalMinister or Planning, Development and Statistics inthe Government o Pakistan and is a long time membero the Senate o Pakistan.

Syed Azman bin Syed AhmadMaLaySIaSyed Azman bin Syed Ahmad iscurrently a member o the State Assembly rom erengganu, Ma-laysia and Chairman o Interna-tional Aairs in the Islamic Partyo Malaysia (PAS). He received his

Bachelor o Business in Administration, his M.A. inPublic Administration and a Master o Science in Po-litical Science rom Indiana State University. He also


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holds a Ph.D. in Political Science rom the University oBirmingham, England.

M.J. AkbarIndIaMobashar Jawed (M.J.) Akbar isChairman and Director o Pub-

lications o Covert Magazine Hehas launched and edited severalimportant publications in Indiaincluding Illustrated Weekly o In-

dia and Te elegraph. Akbar has also written books onthe Indian political landscape. A renowned politicaland social commentator, Akbar is also the author oseveral articles and books, including Blood BrothersandIndia: Te Siege Within, Challenges to a Nations Unity.In addition, he served as a member o Indias Parlia-ment rom 1989-1992, and as an advisor in the Minis-try o Human Resources, helping with policy planning

in education and literacy programs. He holds a B.A. inEnglish rom Presidency College, Calcutta.

Mohammed Mahfoodh Al-ArdhiOManMohammed Al-Ardhi is a ormerChie o the Omani Air Force, hewas responsible or all the militaryand security relations betweenOman and the U.S. and Iran. He

negotiated the Border agreement between Oman andthe UAE. Following the completion o his Masters inPublic Policy rom the John F Kennedy School o Gov-ernment at Harvard University, Mohammed joined theamily business as its Chairman. Presently he serves onthe Board o Directors o Investcorp and the BrookingsInternational Advisory Board.

Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al NuaimiUaE Abdul Aziz bin Ali Al Nuaimi,who is also known as the Green

Sheikh because o his zealousinterest in the environment, is amember o the ruling amily o theEmirate o Ajman in the United

Arab Emirates. Currently Sheikh Abdul Aziz is theCEO o Al Ihsan Charity Centre, advisor or GreenAjman and the Chairman o Green-Base Environmen-tal Services. His educational background is in Chemical

and Petroleum Engineering and Environmental Man-agement. He earned his Ph.D. in Cleaner Productionand Industrial (Ecology) Eco-Systems.

Mohammed Abdullah MutibAl RumaihiQatar

Mohammed Abdullah Mutib Al-Rumaihi is assistant oreign min-ister o ollow-up aairs or theState o Qatar. In this capacity, Al-Rumaihi heads the Government

Committee or Delineating Maritime Borders and isin charge o security aairs at the Ministry o ForeignAairs. He also heads the Government Committee orCoordinating Conerences. Al-Rumaihi has had a longand distinguished career in the Qatari military whichhe entered ater his secondary school education. Heworked his way up the ranks, serving as a command-

er o several artillery regiments, eventually becomingchie o the Qatari-French deense agreement techni-cal committee, and taking charge o the internationalagreements portolio at the Ofce o the Chie o Stao the Qatari Armed Forces. He was transerred romthe Qatari Armed Forces on the directive o HRH theEmir in 2001 to the Ministry o Foreign Aairs and was eventually appointed ambassador to France andnon-resident ambassador to Belgium, the Swiss Federa-tion, Luxemburg and the European Union. Al-Rumai-hi is a graduate o Saint Cyr Military Academy French

Artillery School. He was also a candidate ofcer at theFrench Military College rom 1976 to 1980.

Aisha Bint Faleh Bin NasserAl-ThaniQatar Aisha bint Faleh bin Nasser Al-Tani is a member o the QatarSupreme Education Council. Sheis also a member o the Boardo Directors o the Zaytuna In-

stitute in the United States and sits on the Board o

Directors o Reach Out to Asia. Sheikha Aisha bintFaleh al Tani is the Chairperson o Al Faleh Group.Sheikha Aisha was a speaker at the Qatar Foundationand UNESCO joint conerence (2007) on Literacyin the Arab States: Building Partnerships and Promot-ing Innovative Approaches. She received her BA romthe University o Qatar and MBA rom the Univer-sity o Hull in the U.K. Sheikha Aisha is now a Ph.D.


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candidate at the City University in the United King-dom in the area o corporate governance.

Hamad bin Jassim bin JabrAl-ThaniQatarHamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-

Tani is Prime Minister and For-eign Minister o the State o Qatar.Previously, he served as First Dep-uty Prime Minister and Minister

o Foreign Aairs. From 1982-1989 he was the Direc-tor o the Ofce o the Minister o Municipal Aairsand Agriculture. In July 1989, Al-Tani was appointedMinister o Municipal Aairs and Agriculture and inMay 1990, served as Deputy Minister o Electricity andWater or two years. He has also served as Chairman othe Qatar Electricity and Water Company, Presidento the Central Municipal Council, Director o theSpecial Emiri Projects Ofce, member o Qatar Petro-leum Board o Directors, and member o the SupremeCouncil or Planning. Additionally, Al-Tani has heldseveral other key positions including member o theSupreme Deense Council, head o Qatars PermanentCommittee or the Support o al-Quds, member o thePermanent Constitution Committee, member o theRuling Family Council, and member o the SupremeCouncil or the Investment o the Reserves o the State.

Ibrahim Al-Turki

SaUdI araBIaIbrahim Al-urki is the CEO o Wa International, a companythat specializes in the develop-ment o non-prot organizationsand social responsibility programsacross the Gul region. Wa Inter-

national understands the social responsibility and loy-alty required by the Gul society to meet internationalstandards through a humanitarian Islamic culturewhile always seeking new avenues or sustainable de-velopment. Beore his work at Wa International, Mr.

Al-urki was a business development manager at Gart-ner, an inormation technology research and advisoryrm. Mr. Al-urki received his Bachelor o Science inMathematics rom the King Saud University in 2004.

Aysha AlkusayerSaUdI araBIa Aysha Alkusayer is the AssistantExecutive Manager o AlwaleedBin alal Foundations StrategicStudies Department, which aimsto endorse peaceul coexistence be-

tween the East and West throughinnovative dialogue and meaningul collaborationsacross the spectrum o Eastern and Western cultures.Aysha has an M.A. in screenwriting rom Portland, Or-egon, and has since collaborated on screenwriting proj-ects. Currently, she is working with the MBC networkon a comedy series.

Hayfaa AlmudhafKUWaItHayaa Almudha is Director o thePublic Relations team in the Pub-lications Division o the KuwaitInstitute or Scientic Research(KISR). An engineer by training,she has led a number o research

projects at KISR and in the past served as Director o thePolicy Research and Planning Division. In addition, shehas served on the Board o Directors o Kuwait Environ-mental Public Authority (EPA), and has authored morethan 40 publications, including technical reports, con-erence papers and journal articles. Her areas o expertiseinclude development and workorce issues in the Gul.

Anas AltikritiIraQAnas Altikriti was ormerly a PostGraduate Lecturer in ranslationand Interpreting Studies and iscurrently pursuing his PhD in Po-litical Studies at Westminster Uni-versity in London. Anas Altikriti

was President o the Muslim Association o Britain in2004, and stood down to ght the European Parlia-mentary Elections. Anas Altikriti advises a number

o Arab and Western governments on various matterspertaining to dialogue and regional issues, includingconict resolution, hostage negotiation, and general West-East relations. Anas Altikriti oten commentsin the mainstream and satellite media (both Arabicand English) and presents the weekly Politics and Be-yond program on Islam Channel as well as the weeklyJusoor (Bridges) on Al-Hiwar Satellite Channel. He


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also contributes articles to Te Guardians Commentis Free, has a column on IslamOnLine.net and con-tributes to a number o other websites including Al-Jazeera Net.

Hady AmrUnItEd StatES

Hady Amr is a ellow at the SabanCenter at Brookings and oundingdirector o the Brookings DohaCenter. Troughout his two de-cade career, he has been based ina hal-dozen Muslim-majority

countries and 11 territories rom Sub-Saharan Arica,to the Balkans, to the Middle East and traveled to 20Muslim-majority countries. He was the lead author omajor reports on subsets o the Muslim world, includ-ing the groundbreaking Te State o the Arab Child,and Te Regional Statistical Report on the Multiple

Indicator Cluster Survey 2, as well as Te Situation oChildren Youth and Women in Jordan, or UNICEF.Amr was an appointee at the Near East South Asia Cen-ter or Strategic Studies at National Deense Universityand a senior advisor to the World Economic Forum. Hewas born in Beirut, Lebanon and raised in Greece, SaudiArabia, and the United States and earned his M.A. inEconomics rom the Woodrow Wilson School o Publicand International Aairs at Princeton University.

Cherif Mohamed Aly Adara

SEnEGaLIn 2000, Cheri Mohamad Aly Adara ounded the MozdahirInternational Institute, an NGOthat works actively in Arica toght against material, mental andspiritual poverty, and or bringing

together people throughout the world.

Jasser AudaQatarJasser Auda is an Associate Proessor

in the Public Policy Program in theFaculty o Islamic Studies, a ound-ing member o the InternationalUnion o Muslim Scholars, anda ounding director o the Maqa-

sid Research Centre in the Philosophy o Islamic Law.He is the author o:Maqasid Al-Shariah as Philosophy oIslamic Law: A Systems Approach, London: III, 2008,

and a contributor to: Contextualizing Islam in Britain, apolicy report to the UK Ministry o Communities.

Abdul Ghaffar AzizpaKIStanAbdul Ghaar Aziz is currently theDirector o the Foreign Aairs De-

partment o Jamaat-e-Islami Paki-stan. Mr. Aziz received his Bach-elor o Arts in Arabic Language and Journalism rom Qatar University

and his Masters degree in Arabic Language and Literaturein Pakistan. In 1990, he was appointed as the Special As-sistant to the Ameer o Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan with thespecial responsibility o maintaining contacts in the ArabWorld. Ater serving in this capacity or many years, hewas also entrusted with Darul Uroobah, a department atJamaat headquarters meant to prepare Islamic literatureand to contact Arabic speaking masses and dignitaries.In 1998, he was appointed as the Director o the For-eign Aairs Department o Jamaat-Islami Pakistan. Tisdepartment serves as a laision ofce and establishes con-tacts with the outside world, at the public and privatelevels. Dozens o his translations rom Arabic have beenpublished in Urdu, including his translation o FiqhulAulawiyat, a amous Arabic treatise. He regularly con-tributes to the monthlyarjuman-ul-Quran, an academicjournal with the largest circulation in Urdu.

Durriya Badani

UnItEd StatESDurriya Badani is currently theProject Manager or the Projecton U.S. Relations with the Islamic World or the Brookings Insti-tution. Prior to her tenure withBrookings, Durriya was appointed

as Senior Associate or Government Aairs or Dawat-e-Hadiyah (America). As a Presidential ManagementFellow, Durriya also served as policy advisor or theNear East and South Asia or the Presidents Interagen-cy Council on Women, as a speechwriter to U.S. Secre-

tary o State Madeleine Albright, and as an EconomicOfcer at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad or the U.S.Department o State. Durriya served in the U.S. PeaceCorps in Yemen and completed her M.A. in Arabic andIslamic Studies rom the University o exas at Austin.In 2008, Durriya was appointed by Governor Mar-tin OMalley to the Commission or Middle EasternAmerican Aairs or Maryland.


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Abdallah Bin BayyahSaUdI araBIaAbdallah Bin Bayyah is an instruc-tor at King Abdul Aziz Universityin Jeddah and is the deputy heado the Union o Muslim Scholars,under Yusu al Qaradawi. Beore

coming to teach in Saudi Arabia,the Sheikh was Minister o Education, Minister o Jus-tice, and one o the rst Vice Presidents in his nativeMauritania. He is also a member o the InternationalIslamic Fiqh Academy, or Al Majma al Fiqhi, o theOrganization o the Islamic Conerence. He has also written numerous texts and his engagements drawcrowds o tens o thousands o Muslims. He has spo-ken at length about the endurance o the Islamic legaltradition and also written extensively on rulings orMuslims living as minorities in oreign lands.

Jihad BrownUnItEd StatES Jihad Hashim Brown was born inSanta Ana, Caliornia. He gradu-ated rom Rutgers University in1994 with a Bachelor o Arts degreein Psychology and a Minor in Mid-dle East Studies. Upon graduation,

he went on to pursue studies in Islamic Juristic Meth-odology, Teology and Logic with renowned scholars inDamascus, Syria. Subsequently, he continued studies o

Islamic Juristic Methodology rom the Compendium oCompendiumso al-aj al-Subki in the antique madrasahso the Southern Atlas Mountains in Morocco. JihadBrown lives in Damascus with his wie and our children.

Lara A. CampbellUnItEd StatESDr. Campbell is Manager oPartnerships and Outreach andSenior Scientist with the not-or-prot CUBRC Center or Inter-national Science and echnology

Advancement (CUBRC-CISA).Dr. Campbell recently returned to the U.S. ater tenmonths in the Middle East as a Fulbright Scholar do-ing research on the actors aecting development o avibrant innovation ecosystem in the Arab Middle East.Dr. Campbell holds a bachelors degree in Chemistryrom Rice University in Houston exas and a Ph.D. inChemistry rom the University o exas at Austin.

Gail ChalefUnItEd StatESGail Chale is the Director oCommunications or Foreign Poli-cy at Brookings and or the U.S.-Is-lamic World Forum. Chale joinedBrookings in 2007, ater a 17-

year career with CNN and CNNInternational. During her years at CNN, Chale wascentrally involved in CNNs coverage o the major newsevents o the past two decadesthe rst Gul War, theBosnian War, the election o Nelson Mandela, the rstRussian Presidential election, the 9/11 attacks, and thedeath o Pope John Paul, to name a ew. Chale receivedan Emmy Award or CNNs 9/11 coverage, a PeabodyAward or CNNs Hurricane Katrina coverage, and anEmmy nomination or Christiane Amanpours inter-view with Palestinian President Yassir Araat. In 1987and 1993 respectively, Chale received ellowships romthe National Endowment or the Arts and the RIASBerlin Commission.

John Bryson ChaneUnItEd StatESTe Rt. Rev. John Bryson Chaneserves a diverse diocese in the Dis-trict o Columbia and the State oMaryland as the Episcopal Bishopo Washington. He is Presidentand CEO o the Protestant Epis-

copal Cathedral Foundation which oversees the op-eration o Washington National Cathedral. A graduateo Boston University and the Berkeley Center at YaleDivinity School, he has received honorary doctoratesrom Virginia Teological Seminary, Berkeley Divin-ity School at Yale and Episcopal Divinity School. Priorto his election as bishop, he served as Dean o SaintPauls Cathedral, San Diego, Caliornia. Beore thathe served parishes in New Jersey, and Massachusettsand was Canon Pastor o Saint Pauls Cathedral, Erie,Pennsylvania.

David C. ChavernUnItEd StatESDavid C. Chavern is executivevice president and chie operatingofcer at the United States Cham-ber o Commerce. Chavern hasresponsibility or the day-to-dayoperations o the U.S. Chamber


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including nance, small business and Mid-Marketmembership, inormation technology, and human re-sources, and he serves as chair o the Chambers Man-agement Committee. Chavern also is responsible orthe Chambers Capital Markets and Intellectual Prop-erty policy initiatives. In addition, he has oversighto the National Chamber Litigation Center (NCLC)

and the Ofce o the General Counsel. NCLC is theChambers public policy law rm. Chavern previouslyserved as the Chambers chie o sta and vice presi-dent o its Capital Markets initiative, where he quicklybecame one o the nations leading voices on corporategovernance and on the regulation o U.S. capital mar-kets. Earlier, he served in several senior positions at theU.S. Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank, including deputygeneral counsel.

Lawrence ChickeringUnItEd StatES

Lawrence Chickering is a socialentrepreneur and writer whosework has ocused on empoweringcitizens to partner with govern-ments and help solve major pub-lic challenges. Te most powerul

example o Lawrences approach to public policy andsocial reorm may be ound in Educate Girls Globally(EGG), which he ounded in 1999 to promote girlseducation by reorming government schools in devel-oping countries. Lawrence wrote his rst maniesto

or a transpartisan politics in his 1993 bookBeyondLet and Right, which drew wide praise across the U.S.political spectrum, as did his coauthored 2008 sequel(with James S. urner), Voice o the People: Te ranspar-tisan Imperative in American Lie. He was coounder oTe International Center or Economic Growth, whichin a ten-year period helped promote major reorms inmore than ty countries; and he was a co-ounder oReuniting America, a citizen organization bringing to-gether ofcials o major conservative and liberal orga-nizations in the U.S.

Aysha ChowdhryUnItEd StatES Aysha Chowdhry is the ResearchAnalyst and Publications Manageror the Project on U.S. Relationswith the Islamic World at the Sa-ban Center or Middle East Poli-cy at the Brookings Institution.

Prior to this, Chowdhry worked in the World BanksHuman Development Network. She received a B.A.rom Northwestern University in History and Asianand Middle Eastern Studies and an M.A. in Near andMiddle Eastern Studies rom the School o Orientaland Arican Studies in London.

Suheil S. DawanipaLEStInETe Rt. Reverend Suheil S. Dawa-ni is the 14th Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem and the Bishop o theEpiscopal Diocese o Jerusalem,where he oversees 27 parishes and30 priests. He is the Chairman or

over 30 educational and health care institutions o theDiocese in Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Leba-non, and represents the Anglican Church in regional,ecumenical, interaith networks. Bishop Dawani ob-

tained an Associate Degree in Arts in 1973 rom BirZeit University and graduated rom the Near EastSchool o Teology in Beirut in 1975 with the degreeo Bachelor o Teology. He received his Masters de-gree in Teological Studies rom Virginia TeologicalSeminary in Alexandria, Virginia in 1987, and in Oc-tober, 2006, he was awarded the degree o Doctor inDivinity rom Virginia Teological Seminary.

Vishakha N. DesaiUnItEd StatES

Dr. Desai is the President and CEOo Asia Society, a leading global or-ganization committed to strength-ening partnerships among thepeople, leaders, and institutions o Asia and the United States. Prior

to assuming her current position as President, Dr. Desaiheld several positions at Asia Society, rst as Directoro its Museum, and then as Vice President or Arts andCultural Programs and as Senior Vice President o theSociety. Beore joining Asia Society in 1990, Dr. De-sai was a curator at the Museum o Fine Arts, Boston,

and the head o Public Programs and Academic Aairs.She has also taught at the University o Massachusetts,Boston University, Columbia University and WilliamsCollege. Dr. Desai holds a B.A. in Political Science romBombay University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in AsianArt History rom the University o Michigan.


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Saffrullah M. DipatuanpHILIppInESDr. Sarullah Dipatuan has beenChie o Sta in the Ofce o theVice Chairman or Military A-airs o Moro Islamic LiberationFront (MILF) since 2004. He is

Vice Chairman o the Bangsam-oro Development Agency, an organization that catersto the needs o the Muslim people in conict-aectedareas and strives to make these communities peaceul,progressive, and prosperous. As Vice Chairman, he hasbeen actively campaigning or peace and conducting ca-pability-building trainings and values-transormationssessions or Muslim communities. He is also MedicalDirector o the SMD General Hospital in Marawi Cityand School President o the SMD Foundation Acad-emy, an NGO active in health care services, education,and medical outreach programs. He also serves as Di-rector o the Action Center or Social Justice, Peace,and Development, has attended many internationalconventions, and was named Most Outstanding Physi-cian by the Philippine Medical Association in 1996.

Shereen Gwen El FekiEGyptShereen El Feki is an inauguralFellow at the Kamal Adham Cen-ter at the American University inCairo. Beore joining AUC, Sher-

een was a reporter or Al Jazeera(English), specializing in global

health. From 1998 to 2005, Shereen was HealthcareCorrespondent at Te Economist, writing on biomedicalresearch, the pharmaceutical and biotechnology indus-tries, international public health with a special ocus onreproductive health and HIV/AIDS, biomedical ethics,intellectual property rights and development. Shereenis a senior ellow at the 21st Century rust-SalzburgGlobal Seminar, the International Science and ech-nology Practice and Policy Center at the University oMinnesota, and the Royal Society or Arts and Manu-

actures (RSA). She is also an inaugural ED GlobalFellow. Shereen holds a B.Sc. rom the University ooronto, as well as an M.Phil in biochemistry and aPh.D. in molecular immunology rom the Universityo Cambridge.

Dia El Din Ahmed El QuosyEGyptDr. Dia El Din Ahmed El Quo-sy is currently an Advisor to theMinistry o Water Resources andIrrigation in Egypt. He previouslyserved as the Deputy Chairman o

the National Water Research Cen-ter in Cairo. Dr. El Quosy received his Ph.D. in CivilEngineering at Aston University in Birmingham, UK.

Mohamed El RaeyEGyptMohamed El Raey is a proes-sor o environmental physics atthe University o Alexandria inEgypt. He obtained a Ph.D. inspace physics at the University oCaliornia, Berkeley (1971). Upon

his return to Egypt he initiated and chaired the rstdepartment o environmental studies and he was deano the Institute o Graduate Studies and Research atthe University o Alexandria rom 1994 to 2004. Heis a member o the Prime Minsters National Commit-tee on Change in Egypt, chairman o the Sector Com-mittee on Environment, Supreme Council o EgyptianUniversities since 2007. He is the environment advi-sor or the Arab Academy o Science, echnology andMaritime ransport and is presently working to initiatethe Regional Arab Center or Disaster Risk Reduction.

He has received many awards including, the NationalState Award (1983), the Medal o Science and ArtsFirst Class (1985), the Prize o the Arab Ministers oEnvironment (1999) and the University o AlexandriaAppreciation Award (2006).

Asha Hagi ElmiSOMaLIaAsha Hagi Elmi is chair and ound-er o Save Somali Women andChildren (SSWC). She has man-aged to uniy women across en-

trenched clan and ethnic divides toadvocate or their rights and devel-

opment concerns in the national political processes. Atthe peace and reconciliation conerence in 2000, Hagiserved as a vice-chair on behal o the Sixth Clan. Shehas since been elected as a member o Somalias ran-sitional Federal Parliament and sworn in as a membero the Pan Arican Parliament in Johannesburg in May


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2006. She was honored or her tireless human rightsand peace-building work by receiving the AlternativeNobel Prize, oten called the worlds premier award orpersonal courage and social transormation. She is arecipient o the Right Livelihood Award 2008 by theMinistry o Foreign Aairs. Hagi holds a Laureate oArts in economics rom the Somalia National Univer-

sity, and a masters in business administration and or-ganizational development rom the U.S. InternationalUniversity Arica in Nairobi.

Recep Tayyip ErdoantUrKEyRecep ayyip Erdoan has beenthe Prime Minister o the Republico urkey since March 2003. Heis also the Chairman o the Justiceand Development Party, which hasheld the majority o seats in the Par-

liament since 2002. Since coming to power, Mr. Erdoanand his party have implemented economic reorms thathave helped increase per capita annual income and re-duce the public debt in urkey. In addition to economicreorms, many credit the Erdoan government with re-orming other aspects o the government and moderniz-ing the country. Further, Mr. Erdoan has received manyaccolades or his role in promoting peace between cul-tures and recently won the King Faisal International Prizeor service to Islam rom the King Faisal Foundation.Beore his current role as Prime Minister, Mr. Erdoan

served as the Mayor o Istanbul rom 1994 until 1998.

Ambassador Nabil FahmyEGyptAmbassador Fahmy is the ound-ing Dean o the School o Public Aairs at the American Univer-sity in Cairo. He is also the Chairo the James Martin Center orNonprolieration Studies Middle

East Project. Since September 1, 2008, he has beenAmbassador at Large at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry

ater completing his service as Ambassador o Egypt tothe United States, which began in October 1999. Heserved as Egypts Ambassador to Japan rom September1997-September 1999 and beore that as the Political Advisor to the Foreign Minister rom 1992-97 andhas held numerous posts in the Egyptian Governmentsince 1974. He received his Bachelor o Science de-gree in Physics/Mathematics and his Master o Arts in

Management, both rom the American University inCairo. He also received an honorary Doctor o Hu-mane Letters rom the Monterey Institute o Interna-tional Studies, an afliate o Middlebury College, inMay 2009.

Jeffrey D. Feltman

UnItEd StatES Ambassador Jerey Feltman wassworn in as Assistant Secretary oState or Near Eastern Aairs onAugust 18, 2009. A career mem-ber o the Foreign Service since1986, Ambassador Feltman served

as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureauo Near Eastern Aairs rom February 2008 to his pres-ent assignment, serving concurrently as Acting Assis-tant Secretary o State or the Bureau since December18, 2008. From July 2004 to January 2008, Ambassa-

dor Feltman served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Re-public o Lebanon. Prior to his assignment in Lebanonhe headed the Coalition Provisional Authoritys ofcein the Irbil province o Iraq, serving simultaneously asDeputy Regional Coordinator or the CPAs northernarea. From 2001 until 2003, Ambassador Feltmanserved at the U.S. Consulate-General in Jerusalem, rstas Deputy Principal Ofcer and then as Acting Prin-cipal Ofcer. Mr. Feltman speaks French, Arabic andHungarian. He received his Bachelors degree in historyand ne arts rom Ball State University in 1981, and

his Masters degree in Law and Diplomacy rom theFletcher School o Law and Diplomacy at uts Uni-versity in 1983.

Ashraf GhaniaFGHanIStan Ashra Ghani is currently Chair-man o the Institute or State E-ectiveness. As Adviser to the UNSecretary General, he advised onthe Bonn Agreement or Aghani-stan and then as Aghanistans Fi-

nance Minister he is credited with a series o successulreorms in Aghanistan, including reorm o the trea-sury, customs, budget and the currency. He prepared Aghanistans rst National Development Frameworkand Securing Aghanistans Future, a $28 billion re-construction program or the country. As Chancelloro Kabul University, he instituted a style o participa-tory governance to enlist the students in managing


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their universitys transormation. Dr Ghani is involvedon the advisory boards or a number o activities sup-porting the reorm o global institutions, including theCommission on the UN High-Level Panel on LegalEmpowerment o the Poor, IDEA, and Te BrookingsInstitutions project on global insecurity, the AtlanticCouncil, and the World Justice Project o the American

Bar Association. He is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow atTe Brookings Institutions Managing Global Insecuri-ty Project. He was educated at the American UniversityBeirut and Colombia University, and taught at JohnsHopkins and Berkeley Universities beore joining theWorld Bank, where or a decade he led work on coun-try strategies and policies.

Marc GinsbergUnItEd StatESMarc Ginsberg is Senior VicePresident o APCO Worldwide

and Managing Director and CEOo Northstar Equity Group, a -nancial management and con-sulting afliate o APCO World-

wide. He is also President o Layalina Arab elevisionProductionsa private, not-or-prot Arab languagetelevision production company headquartered inWashington, D.C. and Amman, Jordan. Ginsberg isFox News Channels principal global aairs commen-tator and appears regularly on all Fox News Channelprograms. Previously, Ginsberg served as the U.S. Am-

bassador to Morocco rom 1994 to 1998 and as SpecialU.S. Coordinator or Mediterranean rade, Invest-ment and Security Aairs. He also served as deputy se-nior advisor to President Carter on Middle East aairs,and was the White House liaison or Secretary o StateCyrus Vance. He was also a national security legislativeassistant to Senator Edward M. Kennedy while attend-ing undergraduate school. Ginsberg holds a B.A. romthe American University, an M.B.A. rom GeorgetownUniversity, and a J.D. rom the Georgetown UniversityLaw Center. He speaks French, Arabic and Hebrew.

Stephen R. GrandUnItEd StatESStephen R. Grand is a ellow anddirector o the Saban Center atBrookings Project on U.S. Re-lations with the Islamic World.Beore coming to Brookings, he was director o the Middle East

Strategy Group at the Aspen Institute rom 2004 to2006. Prior to that, Grand served as adjunct proes-sor at Syracuse Universitys Maxwell School and wasa scholar-in-residence at the American University inWashington, DC. From 2002 to 2003, he was an In-ternational Aairs Fellow at the Council o Foreign Re-lations. He has also served as the director o programs

at the German Marshall Fund, and a proessional stamember or the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.Grand received a B.A. rom the University o Virginiaand a Ph.D. rom Harvard University.

Claudette HabeschpaLEStInEClaudette Habesch is a ChristianPalestinian born and raised in Je-rusalem. Ms. Habesch is a mem-ber o the Pontical Council orCor Unum and the Secretary Gen-

eral o Caritas- Jerusalem. She alsoactively serves on several committees including CaritasInternationalis Executive Committee/Roma, Interna-tional Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC)/Ge-neva, and the Middle East Council o Churches. Ms.Habesch received her Bachelor o Arts in Social Workwith a minor in Child Psychology rom the Beirut Col-lege or Women.

Ismid HadadIndOnESIa

Ismid Hadad is Chair o the Work-ing Group on Financial Mecha-nism at the National Council onClimate Change o the Republico Indonesia. Beore joining thisrecently established Presidential

Council, he was Advisor to Indonesias Minister othe Environment/President o the 13th Conerenceo Parties (CoP13), the United Nations FrameworkConvention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held inBali, Indonesia, in 2007. Beore joining the govern-ment he served as Executive Director o KEHAIthe

Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation. Ismid Hadad cur-rently serves as Chair o the Governing Board o KE-HAI. He is also Chair o the Executive Board o theIndonesian Foundation or Sustainable Development(YPB) and Chair o the Association o Philanthropy In-donesia, as well as in the Supervisory Board o LP3ES,Indonesias think tank institute or socio-economic andcommunity based development. Ismid Hadad studied


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economics at the Christian University o Indonesia(UKI, 1966) in Jakarta, public administration rom theKennedy School o Harvard University (1982), andwas a Fellow in Public Policy and International Aairsat Princeton University in the U.S.

Mohamed Hagmagid

UnItEd StatESImam Mohamed Hagmagid is theVice-President o ISNA and wasormerly the Imam and ExecutiveDirector o the All Dulles AreaMuslim Society (ADAMS) Centerin Sterling, Virginia. He was born

in Sudan, the son o a leading Islamic Scholar, who wasan Azhar graduate and the Muti o Sudan. His duties,as the Imam and Executive Director o the ADAMSCenter, include giving Juma Khutbas and teachingclasses in many aspects o the Islamic Sciences.

Mehlam Yunus HakimuddinIndIaMehlam Yunus Hakimuddin isone o the grandsons o His Ho-liness Dr. Syedna MohammedBurhanuddin (US), the spiritualand temporal leader o the Da-woodi Bohra community. A grad-

uate rom the 200 year old Arabic Academy,Al-Jameatus-Saiah, in Surat, India, Mr. Hakimuddin also holds

a Bachelor o Arts Degree in Arabic Literature romDarul Uloom afliated with the University o Cairo.He currently serves as the director or al-aalim and isa consultant or preparing religious modern syllabi orover 700 educational institutes run under the admin-istration oAttalim across the world. He also closelyworks with Shaba ul-Eiddiz Zahabi, a rust involvedin the welare and empowerment o youth and is expe-rienced in the coordination and supervision o disastermanagement teams and in the rehabilitation o victimso natural calamities and communal turmoil. A poetwho has written a large number o Arabic poems, Mr.

Hakimuddin under the directives o Syedna Moham-med Burhanuddin, requently visits remote villagesand towns across the world to evaluate communityeducation institutes.

Shadi HamidUnItEd StatESShadi Hamid is Deputy Directoro the Brookings Doha Center anda Fellow at the Saban Center orMiddle East Policy at the Brook-ings Institution. Prior to join-

ing Brookings, he was Directoro Research at the Project on Middle East Democracy(POMED) and a Hewlett Fellow at Stanord Univer-sitys Center on Democracy, Development, and the Ruleo Law. He currently serves as vice-chair o POMEDsboard o directors. Hamid has conducted extensive re-search on Islamist parties in Egypt and Jordan, most re-cently as a resident ellow at the American Center orOriental Research in Amman. Previously, he served as aprogram specialist on public diplomacy at the U.S. StateDepartment and a Legislative Fellow at the Ofce oSenator Dianne Feinstein. His articles have appeared inTe Washington Post, Te Christian Science Monitor, TeNew Republic, Democracy: A Journal o Ideas, and manyother publications. Hamid writes or the National Se-curity Networks oreign aairs blog Democracy Arsenaland is a ellow o the ruman National Security Project.

Edward (Jack) HardinUnItEd StatESEdward Hardin is a oundingpartner o Rogers & HardinLLP, a corporate and commercial

law rm in Atlanta, Georgia.He has extensive experience inrepresenting public companies,

their ofcers and directors, and special committeeso their boards in corporate and securities matters,including internal investigations, corporate controland proxy contests, and investigations by state andederal regulators and national stock exchanges. As amember o the Council on Foreign Relations, he o-ten speaks on issues o United States oreign policy,including national security and democracy promotion.He is a member o the board o the United Way o

Metropolitan Atlanta, Inc., o which he is a past chair.He is the ormer Chairman o the Board o the Har-vard Center or the Study o World Religions. Mr.Hardin has also served as director o various publiccompanies and currently serves as a director o CompXInternational, Inc.


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Anwer HasanUnItEd StatESMr. Anwer Hasan has more than29 years o comprehensive experi-ence in the areas o Regional Oper-ation, Business Unit Management,Program and Project Management,

Project Controls and Engineering,and Contract Administration or large transportation,water/wastewater, school, solid waste, remediation andwater quality projects. He has been with EA Engineer-ing, Science, and echnology, Inc. or 13 years and hasassisted the City o Baltimores Departments o Pub-lic Works and ransportation and the Baltimore CityPublic School System in the organization and manage-ment o the Capital Improvement Program. Mr. Hasanactively participated in Governor Martin OMalleysransition eam in 2007 and chaired the transpor-tation transition team. He is currently serving as aChairman o Requirement Committee or Base Re-alignment Closure (BRAC) ask Forces or HowardCounty and has served or two consecutive years inthe Spending and Aordability Committee in How-ard County. He served as President o Howard CountyMuslim Council or our years and now he is the Presi-dent o the Maryland Muslim Council or the last ouryears, which is an umbrella organization or these eightcouncils. He was also very instrumental in the orma-tion o the American Muslim Business and ProessionalAssociation and the Maryland Middle Eastern Cham-

ber o Commerce. Currently he serves on their Board.

Syed Iqbal HasnainIndIaProessor Syed Iqbal Hasnain is aSenior Fellow at the Energy andResources Institute in New Delhi.He is an internationally renownedexpert in the eld o Himalayanglacier research and education. He

currently serves as chairman o the Glacier and ClimateChange Commission established by the State Govern-

ment o Sikkim. He has published research papers andbooks in peer reviewed journals likeJournal o GlaciologyandJournal o Hydrology. Proessor Hasnain was award-ed Padma Shri by the Government o India in 2009.

Farkhonda HassanEGyptDr. Farkhonda Hassan is a scien-tist, university proessor, promi-nent politician, development spe-cialist, and a womens rights activ-ist. Dr. Hassan has been on the Shu-

ra Assembly o Egypt since 1984, amember and Secretary-General o the National Councilor Women since 2000, and an honorary lie member othe International Parliamentary Union. In addition toher political career, Dr. Hassan has had a prolic scienceand technology career. She received her Bachelor o Sci-ence in Geology and Chemistry rom Cairo Universityand her Ph.D. in Geology rom the University o Pitts-burgh. She is currently Proessor Emeritus o Chemis-try and teaches Geology at the American University inCairo, where she chaired the Sciences and EngineeringDepartment rom 1975 until 1980. She has authoreda large number o scientic articles in the eld o ge-ology, and in the eld o Science and echnology orDevelopment and Environment in both internation-al and national journals. Dr. Hassan was granted themedal o Science and Art o the rst Degree in 1980.Further, as part o the advisory council o ScientistsWithout Borders which works to advance the under-standing o science, technology, and medicine, Fark-honda Hassan works to promote scientic educationand careers, particularly or women and minorities.

Mohamed H.A. HassanEGyptHassan is executive director o theAcademy o Sciences or the De-veloping World (WAS), presi-dent o the Arican Academy oSciences (AAS) and chairman othe Honorary Presidential Advi-

sory Council or S& in Nigeria. Ater obtaining hisDPhil at the University o Oxord in 1973, he returnedto Sudan as proessor and dean o the School o Math-ematical Sciences at the University o Khartoum. Since1986 he has been working in rieste, rst as execu-tive secretary and then as executive director o WAS.Since 2001, Hassan also serves as executive director othe Secretariat o the InterAcademy Panel on Interna-tional Issues (IAP), also located in rieste.


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Yahya HendiUnItEd StatESImam Yahya Hendi is the Muslimchaplain at Georgetown Universi-ty, the rst American University tohire a ull-time Muslim chaplain.Imam Hendi is also the Imam o

the Islamic Society o Frederickin Frederick, MD and is the Muslim Chaplain at theNational Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. Healso serves as a member o the Islamic JurisprudenceCouncil o North America. He has served as an ad-junct aculty member or Zanvyl Krieger School o Artsand Science and Oshers Lielong Learning Institute o Johns Hopkins University, Fordham University andHartord Seminary. Imam Hendi also teaches a verypopular course at Georgetown University, Inter-reli-gious Encounter. Mr. Hendis undergraduate educa-tion was in Islamic Studies and his Masters and Ph.D.education were in comparative religions with an inter-est in Christianity, Judaism, comparative religions andinter-religious dialogue and relations. He has writtennumerous publications on many topics, includingwomen in Islam, women and gender relations in Islam,the second coming o the Messiah, Islam and biomedi-cal ethics and religion and Islam in the United States.

Richard C. HolbrookeUnItEd StatESRichard C. Holbrooke is the U.S.

Special Representative or Aghani-stan and Pakistan. He served as theUnited States Ambassador to theUnited Nations, where he was alsoa member o President Clintons

cabinet (1999-2001). As Assistant Secretary o State orEurope (1994-1996), he was the chie architect o the1995 Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the war inBosnia. He later served as President Clintons SpecialEnvoy to Bosnia and Kosovo and Special Envoy to Cy-prus on a pro-bono basis while a private citizen. From1993-1994, he was the US. Ambassador to Germany.During the Carter Administration (1977-1981), heserved as the Assistant Secretary o State or East Asianand Pacic Aairs, and was in charge o U.S. relations with China at the time Sino-American relations werenormalized in December o 1978. Ater joining the For-eign Service in 1962, he served in Vietnam (1963-66),including a tour o duty in the Mekong Delta or AID.He worked on Vietnam issues at the Johnson White

House (1966-68); wrote one volume o the PentagonPapers; and was a member o the American delegationto the Vietnam Peace alks in Paris (1968-69). He wasPeace Corps Director in Morocco (1970-72), Manag-ing Editor oForeign Policy(1972-77), and held seniorpositions at two leading Wall Street rms, Credit SuisseFirst Boston (Vice Chairman) and Lehman Brothers

(Managing Director). He has written numerous articlesand two best-selling books: o End a War, a memoiro the Dayton negotiations, and co-author oCounselto the President, Clark Cliords memoir. He previous-ly wrote a monthly column or Te Washington Post.

Philip N. HowardUnItEd StatESPhilip N. Howard is an associateproessor in the Department oCommunication at the Univer-sity o Washington. He directsthe NSF-unded World Inorma-tion Access Project (wiaproject.

org), and his bookTe Internet and Islam: Te DigitalOrigins o Dictatorship and Democracy, is orthcom-ing rom Oxord University Press. He is the author o,New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), about howdigital inormation technologies are used to manipu-late public opinion in the United States. Tis bookwas awarded the 2007 CIASA Best Book prize romthe American Sociological Association and the 2008

Best Book prize rom the International Communica-tion Association. He has worked on several NationalScience Foundation projects, serving on the advisoryboard o the Survey2000 and Survey2001 Projects, co-managing a project about Inormation and Communi-cation echnologies in Central Asia, and directing the World Inormation Access Project. Howard has beena Fellow at the Pew Internet & American Lie Projectin Washington D.C., the Stanhope Centre or Com-munications Policy Research in London, and the Cen-ter or Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences inPalo Alto. He received his BA rom oronto, MSc rom

the London School o Economics, and his Ph.D. romNorthwestern University.


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Joel C. HunterUnItEd StatESSince June 1985, Dr. Hunter hasserved as senior pastor o North-land, A Church Distributed,a congregation o 12,000 that worships at our sites in Metro

Orlando and more than 1,000sites worldwide via interactive webcast. A bridge-builder among religious and mainstream leaders orissues that advance the common good, Dr. Hunteris on the boards o directors o the World Evangeli-cal Alliance, the National Association o Evangelicals,and Peacemaking Resources, Inc. He is on the advi-sory boards o Denver Seminarys Vernon C. GroundsInstitute o Public Ethics, Man in the Mirror Minis-tries, Floridas Faith-based and Community-basedAdvisory Council, among others. Dr. Hunter earnedhis Doctor o Ministry rom Christian TeologicalSeminary and received an Honorary Doctorate o Hu-manities rom Belhaven College. He is a guest lecturerin practical theology at Reormed Teological Semi-nary and author o several books, including A NewKind o Conservative, which outlines a non-partisan ap-proach to political involvement, and Inner State 80, aseries o daily devotionals oering inspiration towardspiritual maturity.

Safeena HusainIndIa

Saeena Husain is the CEO andounder o the India Study AbroadCenter (indiastudyabroad.org)that promotes experiential andservice learning programs. Shehas over ten years experience in

designing and executing educational programs or in-ternational students around the world. Ms. Husain isa noted expert in the eld o education, serving as theExecutive Director o Educate Girls Globally (educate-girls.org) and currently runs educational programs orgirls in 500 schools in Rajasthan, India. From 1997 to2004, Ms. Husain was the Executive Director or ChildFamily Health International (CFHI) in San Francisco,Caliornia. She was responsible or managing andsupporting a range o International Development Ex-changes (IDEX). She serves on the Advisory Councilo the Clarence Foundation and runs a ree school orunderserved rural children in the Himalayas. WithCFHI, Ms. Husain was instrumental in expanding the

programs rom Ecuador to India, South Arica, Mexicoand Bolivia. Ms. Husain holds a BS rom the LondonSchool o Economics and Political Sciences, and wasborn and raised in New Delhi, India.

Rashad HussainUnItEd StatES

Rashad Hussain is Deputy Associ-ate Counsel to President BarackObama. His work at the WhiteHouse ocuses on national secu-rity, new media, and science andtechnology issues. In addition to

his work in the Counsels Ofce, Rashad also contrib-utes to the White Houses outreach eorts to Muslimcommunities. Mr. Hussain previously served as a rialAttorney at the U.S. Department o Justice. Earlier inhis career, Mr. Hussain was a legislative assistant on theHouse Judiciary Committee, where he ocused on na-tional security-related issues. Mr. Hussain earned hisbachelors degree rom the University o North Caro-lina at Chapel Hill, Masters degrees in Public Admin-istration (Kennedy School o Government) and in Ara-bic & Islamic Studies rom Harvard University, andhis J.D. rom Yale Law School, where he served as aneditor o the Yale Law Journal. Upon graduation, heserved as a Law Clerk to Judge Damon J. Keith on theU.S. Court o Appeals.

Anwar Ibrahim

MaLaySIa Anwar Ibrahim is currently theleader o Malaysias parliamentaryopposition. He served as deputyprime minister o Malaysia rom1993-1998 and as minister o -nance rom 1991-1998. Highly

respected or his principled stance against corruptionand his skillul management o the Malaysian economyduring the turbulent period o its nancial crisis, Ibra-him is also viewed as one o the oreathers o the AsianRenaissance and a leading proponent o greater coopera-

tion among civilizations. He is an ardent supporter odemocracy and is an authoritative voice bridging the gapbetween East and West. Recently he is credited with lead-ing Malaysias opposition to unprecedented victories inthe March 2008 Malaysian elections. Ibrahim has heldlecturing positions at Oxord University, Johns Hop-kins School o Advanced International Studies, and inthe School o Foreign Service at Georgetown University.


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In March 2006 he was named honorary president o theLondon-based think tank, AccountAbility.

Saad Eddin IbrahimEGyptSaad Eddin Ibrahim is a prominentEgyptian social scientist, human

rights deender, and democracyadvocate. Saad is currently a visit-ing proessor o political science atHarvard University. He has more

than thirty authored or edited books and more than ahundred scholarly articles. Saad is the chairman o theIbn Khaldun Center or Development Studies in Cai-ro, and has ounded numerous democracy and humanrights organizations throughout the Arab World. Hehas taught at Indiana University, DePauw, UCLA, Co-lumbia, NYU, American Universities o Beirut (AUB)and in Cairo (AUC), Istanbul Kulture University.

Asclepias Rachmi SoerjonoIndriyantoIndOnESIa Asclepias Rachmi Soerjono In-driyanto has been the ExecutiveDirector o the Indonesian Insti-tute or Energy Economics (IIEE)since 2003. She leads the IIEE

team in various policy research activities and the pro-duction o a periodical entitled the Indonesian Energy

Economics Review. In the past years IIEE has been o-cusing its research in energy security and various relatedareas including renewable energy development. During2006-2009 she was an energy expert or the Board oCommissaries o P PLN (Persero), the state-ownedelectricity utility company. She is now a member othe Oil and Gas Production Improvement Monitoringeam, directly reporting to the Minister o Energy andMineral Resources. She holds both a Ph.D. and M.A.in Economics rom the University o Hawaii at Manoa,and a Bachelor in Mathematics rom the Bandung In-stitute o echnology in Indonesia.

Martin IndykUnItEd StatESMartin Indyk is the convener othe Saban Forum and was theounding Director o the SabanCenter or Middle East Policy atthe Brookings Institution. He

currently serves as the Director or Foreign Policy andVice President at the Brookings Institution. He servedas U.S. Ambassador to Israel rom 1995 to 1997 and2000 to 2001. Beore his rst posting to Israel, Indykwas Special Assistant to President William J. Clintonand Senior Director or Near East and South Asian A-airs at the National Security Council. He served as As-

sistant Secretary o State or Near Eastern Aairs rom1997 to 2000. Beore entering the U.S. Government,Indyk was ounding Executive Director o the Wash-ington Institute or Near East Policy. He currentlyserves as Chairman o the International Council o theNew Israel Fund. His book, Innocent Abroad: An In-timate Account o U.S. Peace Diplomacy in the MiddleEastwas published in January 2009 in both Hebrewand English. Most recently, Indyk contributed to thebookWhich Path to Persia? Options or a New AmericanStrategy toward Iran (2009) in conjunction with severalother Saban Center and Brookings Senior Fellows. In-

dyk received a B.Econ. (Hon.) rom Sydney Universityand a Ph.D. in International Relations rom the Aus-tralian National University.

Ahmad IravaniIranAhmad Iravani is a Director o Is-lamic Studies and Dialogues at theCenter or the Study o Cultureand Values, Catholic University oAmerica, where he teaches courses

on Islam. He is President o theCenter or the Study o Islam and the Middle East inWashington, DC. He was the Dean o the School oPhilosophy, Mod University in Qom, Iran beore go-ing to the United States. He is also a senior advisor tothe International Center or Religion and Diplomacyin Washington, D.C.

Ali M. JaberUnItEd araB EMIratESBorn in Lebanon in 1961, Mr. Jabercompleted his Bachelors in Busi-

ness Administration at the Ameri-can University o Beirut in 1984beore going on to earn his Mastersdegree in Communications at Syr-

acuse University in the U.S. in 1986. Upon returningto Beirut, Ali joined the Fine Arts aculty o Beirut Uni-versity College. Tere he helped set up their Broadcast-ing Department and or eight years taught a range o


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courses in television production. Concurrently, Aliworked as a journalist covering the war in Lebanon andIraq between the years 1987 to 1999. He was a corre-spondent or Te New York imesand Te imes o Lon-don between 1989 and 1994, and Chie Correspondentor Lebanon and Syria or the German Press Agency(GPA) rom 1987 to 1999. Ali ounded and managed

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