List of Participants:

 

H.E. SHEIKH HAMAD BIN JASSIM BIN JABR AL THANI

First Deputy Prime Minister

and Minister of Foreign Affairs

Qatar

 

DAVID AARON

Director, Center for Middle

East Public Policy,

RAND Corporation

United States

 

AHMED ABDALI

Producer, Felix Films

Entertainment

United Kingdom/Yemen

 

AZAMAT ABDIMOMUNOV

Deputy Minister,

Ministry of Education of

Science

Kazakhstan

 

ABDULLAH ABDULLAH

Foreign Minister,

Foreign Ministry of Afghanistan

Afghanistan

 

YUSUF BIN ALAWI BIN ABDALLAH

Foreign Minister,

Foreign Ministry of the Sultanate of Oman

Oman

 

MOHAMMED ABDUL AZIZ

Director, Faithwise

United Kingdom                     

 

AHMED ABDUL-MALIK

Member, National Council

of Culture, Arts,

and Heritage

Qatar

 

ZIAD ABU-AMR

Member,

Palestinian Legislative Council

PalestinianTerritories

 

FEISAL ABDUL RAUF

Imam, Masjid Al Farah

United States

 

SEVDA ABDULLAYEVA

Professor of Biophysics,

NationalAcademyof

Sciences

Azerbaijan

 

SALEHA ABEDIN

Vice-Dean of Academic

Affairs, Dar Al-Hekma

College

Saudi Arabia

 

ABDULLA OTHMAN ABURRAHIM

Director, Green Book

Center for Studies and

Research

Libya

 

MUNA ABUSULAYMAN

Executive Manager,

Kingdom Holding Co.

Saudi Arabia

 

KHURSHID AHMAD

Chairman, Institute of

Policy Studies

Pakistan

 

AKBAR AHMED

Ibn Khaldun Chair of

Islamic Studies, American University; Visiting Fellow, Saban Center

for Middle East Policy,

The Brookings Institution

Pakistan

 

SALMAN AHMED

Musician, Junoon

Pakistan

 

MOBASHAR JAWED AKBAR

Editor-in-Chief,

The Asian Age

India

 

ABDULHAMEED AL-ANSARI

Professor, Qatar University

Qatar

 

HASSAN M. AL ANSARI

Director, Gulf Center of

Strategic Studies

Qatar

 

ROKAYA AL AYAT

Associate Deputy

Director for Science and

Technology, Lawrence

LivermoreNational

Laboratory

United States

 

GAMAL AL-BANNA

Islamic thinker; Fawziyya

and Gamal El-Banna

Foundation for Islamic

Culture and Information

Egypt

 

S.M. HASSAN AL BANNA

Co-Founder, Awakening

Bangladesh/United

Kingdom

 

JAWAD AL BOULANI

Member, IraqParliament

Iraq

 

FAISAL AL KASIM

Host, Al Jazeera

Qatar

 

SHEIKH KHALID BIN AHMED BIN MOHAMMED AL-KHALIFA

Foreign Minister,

Foreign Ministry of Bahrain

Bahrain

 

ABDELELAH AL-KHATIB

Foreign Minister,

Foreign Ministry of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Jordan

 

NASER BIN HAMAD BIN

MUBARAK AL KHALIFA

Ambassador of Qatar to

the United States

Qatar

 

ABDULLA AL KUBAISI

Director of Her Highness’

Office, QatarFoundation

Qatar

 

SADIG AL MAHDI

President, National Umma

Party; Former Prime Minister

Sudan

 

SALAM AL MARAYATI

Executive Director, Muslim

Public Affairs Council

United States

 

SHEIKHA ABDULLA AL MISNAD

President, Qatar University

Qatar

 

TAKI AL MOUSAWI

Dean, Al Mustansiriya

University

Iraq

 

MOHAMMED ABDULLAH

MUTIB AL RUMAIHI

Assistant Foreign Minister

for Follow-Up Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Qatar

 

SHEIKHA LUBNA BINT

KHALED AL QASIMI

Minister of Planning and

Economy, United Arab

Emirates

United Arab Emirates

 

HUSAIN AL SHAHRISTANI

Deputy Speaker, Iraqi

National Assembly;

Chairman, Iraqi National

AcademyOf Science

Iraq

 

QAISER ALAM

Principal Staff Officer To

Chief Minister North West

FrontierProvince

Pakistan

 

RABIH ALAMEDINE

Author/Painter

Lebanon

 

SYED HAMID ALBAR

Minister Of Foreign Affairs,

Foreign Ministry Of Malaysia

Malaysia

 

JANE ALEXANDER

Actress; Former Director,

National Endowment

For The Arts,

United States

 

YASER ALI

Ingram Events

United Kingdom

 

MUEAN ALJABIRY

President, Group Jefferson

Family Of Companies

United Arab Emirates

 

ABDEL AZIZ ABU HAMAD

ALUWAISHEG

Minister, Economic

Integration Department;

Director, Gulf Cooperation

Council

Saudi Arabia

 

HADY AMR

Founder and Chairman,

Amr Group; Co-President, Arab

and Western Summit of Skills

United States

 

M. SYAFI ’I ANWAR

Executive Director,

InternationalCenterfor

Islam and Pluralism

Indonesia

 

MUHAMAD NURAYN

ASHAFA

Imam, Muslim-Christian

Dialogue Forum

Nigeria

 

GEORGE H. ATKINSON

Science and Technology

Advisor to the Secretary of State,

U.S.Department of State

United States

 

SARTAJ AZIZ

Vice-Chancellor,

Beacon House National

University

Pakistan

 

HOSSAM BADRAWI

Member, People’s

Assembly; Chairman, Education &

Scientific Research Committee

Egypt

 

ALAN R. BATKIN

Vice Chairman,

Kissinger Associates

United States

 

RAND BEERS

President, Coalition for

American Leadership

United States

 

BENAZIR BHUTTO

Former Prime Minister,

Pakistani People’s Party

Pakistan

 

MAX BOOT

Senior Fellow, Council

on Foreign Relations;

Columnist, Los Angeles

Times

United States

 

JOHN P. BORIGHT

Executive Director,

International Affairs, U.S.

NationalAcademyof

Sciences

United States

 

MAHMOUD BOUNEB

Executive General Manager,

Al JazeeraChildren’s

Channel

Tunisia

 

MAHDI BRAY

President, Muslim

American Society

United States

 

DAVID BROOKS

Columnist,

The New York Times

United States

 

RONALD BRUDER

Chairman,

The Brookhill Group

United States

 

MARK BRZEZINSKI

Partner,

McGuire Woods, LLP

United States

 

USMAN MUHAMED

BUGAJE

Member of Parliament,

Government of Nigeria

Nigeria

 

MUHAMMADU BUHARI

Former Head of State,

All Nigeria Peoples Party

Nigeria

 

DOROTHEA BURKE

Colonel, United StatesArmy

United States

 

ROBIN BUSH

Regional Director, Islam

and Development,

The Asia Foundation

United States

 

MUSTAFA CERIC

Grand Mufti

Islamic community of

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Bosnia– Herzegovina

 

ELIZABETH CHENEY

Deputy Assistant Secretary

for Near Eastern Affairs,

U.S.Department of State

United States

 

DEREK CHOLLET

Fellow, International

Security Program,

Center for Strategic and

International Studies

United States

 

STEPHEN COHEN

Senior Fellow, The

Brookings Institution

United States

 

STEVEN A. COOK

Douglas Dillon Fellow,

Council on Foreign

Relations

United States

 

MICHAEL B. D’ARCY

Lecturer, Department

of War Studies, King’s

College, London

United Kingdom

 

MALIK DAHLAN

Principal, Quest-MRD

Legal Group

Saudi Arabia/Qatar

 

ROBERT DAVIDSON

Training and Development

Officer, USAID/Egypt

United States

 

GENE DE LA TORRE

Counselor, Office of Science

and Technology,

U.S.Department of State

United States

 

NAVTEJ DHILLON

Senior Research Analyst,

Brookings Institution

United Kingdom

 

YORO DIA

Special Advisor for Arab

and Muslim Affairs to the

Prime Minister, Government

of Senegal; Professor,

DakarUniversity

Senegal

 

EDWARD P. DJEREJIAN

Director, James A. Baker III

Institute for Public Policy at

RiceUniversity

United States

 

JOSEPH DUFEY

Senior Vice President,

Laureate Learning Systems

United States

 

AKRAM KHAN DURANI

ChiefMinister, North West

FrontierProvince

Pakistan

 

ASAD DURRANI

Former Director-General,

Inter-Services Intelligence;

Former Ambassador to

Saudi Arabia

Pakistan

 

HANY EL-BANNA

President,

Islamic Relief

United Kingdom

 

HAKIM EL GHISSASSI

Founder and Director,

Sézame; La Médina

France

 

MOHAMED ELMENSHAWY

Editor-in-Chief,

Taqrir Washington

Egypt/United States

 

RECEP TAYIP ERDOGAN

Prime Minister,

Republicof Turkey

Turkey

 

MANSUR ESCUDERO

Secretary General, Islamic

Commission of Spain

Spain

 

BETSY FADER

Director of Strategy and

Planning, Doris Duke

Charitable Foundation

United States

 

RABAB FAYAD

Project Coordinator,

SabanCenterfor Middle

East Policy at The Brookings

Institution

United States

 

M. SHAFIK GABR

Chairman, Arab Business

Council

Egypt

 

SHAFEQ GHABRA

President, American

Universityof Kuwait

Kuwait

 

RACHED GHANOUCHI

Member, European Council

for Fatwa and Research

Tunisia/United Kingdom

 

RAFIA OBAID GHUBASH

President,

Arabian GulfUniversity

Bahrain

 

ADRIAN GODFREY

Director of Corporate

Responsibility,

Cisco Systems, Inc.

United Kingdom

 

LOUIS GOODMAN

Dean, School of

International Service,

AmericanUniversity

United States

 

VARTAN GREGORIAN

President, Carnegie

Corporation of New York

United States

 

L. MICHAEL HAGER

President, Education for

Employment Foundation

United States

 

OSAMA AL GHAZILI HARB

Chief Editor, Al-Siyassa

Al-Dawliya,

Al-Ahram Foundation

Egypt

 

MOUAFAC HARB

Executive Vice President,

Network News; Director,

Middle EastBroadcasting Network

United States

 

BAMBANG HARYMURTI

Editor-in-Chief, Tempo

Indonesia

 

MOHAMED H.A. HASSAN

Executive Director,

The Academy of Sciences

For the Developing World;

President, African Academy

of Sciences

Sudan

 

MOHAMED JAWHAR HASSAN

Chairman,

Institute of Strategic and

International Studies

Malaysia

 

BADER BEN HIRSI

Director, Felix Films

Entertainment

United Kingdom/Yemen

 

SA’AD HIJAZI

President,

Royal Scientific Society

Jordan

 

FIONA HILL

Senior Fellow, Foreign

Policy Studies,

The Brookings Institution

United States

 

BENSALEM HIMMICH

Author; Professor of

Philosophy,

Mohamed V University

Morocco

 

RIFAT HISARCIKLIOGLU

President, Union of

Chambers and Commodity

Exchanges of Turkey

Turkey

 

MUSA HITAM

Chairman, Kumpulan

Guthrie; Former Deputy

Prime Minister

Malaysia

 

KAREN HUGHES

Under Secretary for Public

Diplomacy,

U.S.Department of State

United States

 

MOHAMED IBRAHIM

Chairman,

Celtel International

Sudan

 

SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM

Chairman, Ibn Khaldun

Center for Development Studies

Egypt

 

BARBRA IBRAHIM

Regional Director for West Asia and North Africa,

Population Council

Egypt

 

SHAMIL IDRISS

Deputy Director,

Allianceof Civilizations,

United Nations

United States

 

EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU

Secretary General,

The Organization of the

Islamic Conference

Turkey

 

MARTIN INDYK

Director, Saban Center for

Middle EastPolicy at The

Brookings Institution

United States

 

MIR AHMAD JOYENDA

Member,

Afghan Parliament

Afghanistan

 

ROBERT KAGAN

Senior Associate,

Carnegie Endowment for

International Peace; Columnist,

The Washington Post

United States

 

MARVIN KALB

Senior Fellow, Shorenstein

Center on the Press,

Politics, and Public Policy

at Harvard University;

Analyst, Fox News Channel

United States

 

BERIWAN MUSLIH

KHAILANY

Deputy Minister, Iraqi

Ministry of Higher

Education

Iraq

 

PETER KHALILI

Senior Analyst,

Middle East and Africa,

Eurasia Group

Australia

 

NASER D. KHALILI

Founder, The Khalili

Collections; Chairman, The

Maimonides Foundation

United Kingdom

 

MUQTEDAR KHAN

Non-Resident Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution; Professor, University of
Delaware

United States

 

RIAZ KHOKHAR

Diplomat,

Pakistan

 

RAMI KHOURI

Editor-at-Large,

The Daily Star

Lebanon

 

SHEIKH SALAH AL-DEEN

KUFTARO

General Manager,

Sheikh Ahmad Kuftaro

Foundation

Syria

 

PATRICK LACHEM

Managing Director,

Association and

Communications Events,

Ingram Events

United Kingdom

 

JAVAID R. LAGHARI

Chief Executive Officer,

Project Director,

SZABIST

Pakistan

 

ERIC LARSON

Senior Policy Analyst,

RAND Corporation

United States

 

RON LEHMAN

Director, Center for

Global Security Research,

LawrenceLivermore

National Laboratory

United States

 

AARON LOBEL

President and Chairman,

AmericaAbroad Media

United States

 

ABDESLAM MAGHRAOUI

Director, Muslim World

Initiative, United States

Instituteof Peace

United States

 

SOUMIA BELAIDI

MALINBAUM

Chief Executive Officer,

Specimen

Algeria/France

 

ELMAR MAMMADYAROV

Minister of Foreign Affairs,

Foreign Ministry of

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

 

JENNIFER MINCIN

Executive Director,

Families of September 11

United States

 

MARWAN MUASHER

Senator, Jordanian

Parliament; Former Deputy

Prime Minister

Jordan

 

HADIA MUBARAK

Research Assistant, Islam

in the Age of Globalization

Project

United States

 

ALI SHAHEED MUHAMMAD

Musician and Producer

United States

 

ABDUL KARIM MUHAMMADAWI

Secretary General,

Iraqi Hizbollah

Iraq

 

OMAR NAIM

Film Director

United States

 

NORMAN NEUREITER

Director, Center for

Science, Technology, and

Security Policy, American

Association for the

Advancement of Science

United States

 

FARHAN NIZAMI

Director, Oxford Center for

Islamic Studies

India/United Kingdom

 

CASEY NOGA

Research Analyst,

SabanCenterfor Middle

East Policy at The Brookings

Institution

United States

 

ELINA NOOR

Research Assistant,

SabanCenterfor Middle

East Policy at The Brookings

Institution

Malaysia 

 

MICHAEL NOZIK

Founding Partner and

Producer, Serenade Films

United States

 

ÖMÜR ORHUN

Ambassador,

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Turkey

 

CARLOS PASCUAL

Vice President, Director of

Foreign Policy Studies,

The Brookings Institution

United States

 

SURIN PITSUWAN

Member, Thai Parliament;

Former Foreign Minister

Thailand

 

KENNETH M. POLLACK

Senior Fellow, Director of

Research, Saban Center for

Middle EastPolicy

at The Brookings Institution

United States

 

ARIF RAFIQ

Intern, Saban Center for

Middle EastPolicy at

Brookings Institution

United States

 

AMINA RASUL -BERNARDO

Convenor, Philippine Council

for Islam and Democracy;

Trustee, Magbassa Kita

Foundation, Inc.

Philippines

 

GUY RAZ

Correspondent, CNN

United States

 

JEFF RICHARDSON

Division Leader,

Proliferation and Terrorism

Prevention Program,

LawrenceLivermore

National Laboratory

United States

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IMRAN RIFFAT

Financial Controller,

The Synergos Institute

United States

 

IQBAL SACRANIE

Secretary General,

Muslim Council of Britain

United Kingdom

 

CAROL R. SAIVETZ

Research Associate, Davis

Center for Russian And

Eurasian Studies,

HarvardUniversity

United States

 

GÜVEN SAK

Executive Director,

TEPAV Economic Policy

Research Institute

Turkey

 

SAMER SALTY

Partner, Zouk Ventures Ltd.

United Kingdom

 

AHMED SAMERAI

Ingram Events

Iraq

 

ROBERT SATLOFF

Executive Director,

Washington Institute for

Near East Policy

United States

 

CYNTHIA P. SCHNEIDER

Distinguished Professor in

the Practice of Diplomacy,

Pfizer Medical Humanities

Initiative Scholar-in Resident,

GeorgetownUniversity

United States

 

JILLIAN SCHWEDLER

Assistant Professor,

Government and Politics,

Universityof Maryland;

Chair, Middle East Research

and Information Project

United States

 

CHRIS SEIPLE

President, Institute for

Global Engagement

United States

 

FARID SENZAI

Fellow, Institute for Social

Policy and Understanding

United States

 

CHRISTOPHER SHIELDS

President and Founder,

Shoreline Media

United States

 

RAJA NAZRIN SHAH

Crown Prince, State of Perak

Malaysia

 

KHALIL SHIKAKI

Director, Palestinian Center

for Policy and Survey Research

PalestinianTerritories

 

ZAFAR SIDDIQI

Chief Executive Officer,

CNBC Arabiya

United Arab Emirates

 

PETER W. SINGER

Senior Fellow, Foreign

Policy Studies; Director,

Project on U.S. Relations With

 the Islamic World,

SabanCenterfor Middle

East Policy at The Brookings

Institution

United States

 

EYAD SARRAJ

Medical Director and Founder,

GazaCommunity Mental Health Program; Chairman, Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights

PalestinianTerritories

 

JOAN SPERO

President, Doris Duke

Charitable Foundation

United States

 

AWAIS SUFI

Director of Business Development, International Youth Foundation

United States

 

ELIN SULEYMANOV

Consul General, Foreign

Ministry of Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

 

H.R.H. EL HASAN BIN TALAL

Prince, Hashemite Kingdom

of Jordan

Jordan

 

PUNET TALWAR

Senior Staff Member,

Committee on Foreign

Relations, U.S. Senate

United States

 

AMY TAN

Author

United States

 

SHIBLEY TELHAMI

Anwar Sadat Professor,

Universityof Maryland;

Non-Resident Senior

Fellow, Saban Center for

Middle EastPolicy at

The Brookings Institution

United States

 

CHASE UNTERMEYER

Ambassador,

U.S.Embassy to Qatar

United States

 

TONI G. VERSTANDIG

Senior Policy Advisor,

Center for Middle East

Peace and Economic

Cooperation

United States

 

AMINA WADUD

Professor of Islamic

Studies, Virginia

CommonwealthUniversity

United States

 

MARGARET WARNER

Senior Correspondent,

The Newshour with Jim

Lehrer

United States

 

LUCAS WELCH

Founder and President,

Soliya

United States  

 

ANNE WEXLER

Chairman, Wexler & Wexler

Public Policy

United States

 

TAMARA COFMAN WITTES

Research Fellow, Saban

Center for Middle East

Policy at The Brookings

Institution

United States

 

ROBIN WRIGHT

Diplomatic Correspondent,

The Washington Post; Visiting Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at

The Brookings Institution

United States

 

DANIEL YANKELOVICH

Chairman, Public Agenda;

DYG; Viewpoint

Learning, Inc.

United States

 

SAMI YUSUF

Artist/Composer,

Awakening Records

United Kingdom

 

IAN ZAIDER

President,

IZ Management Inc.

United States

 

MOHD ANNUAR BIN ZAINI

Chairman, BERNAMA

Malaysia

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