Governance Task Force

 

Convener:

 

Shibley Telhami

Anwar Sadat Professor, University of Maryland

United States

 

Opening Speakers:

 

Al Sadig Rahman Al Mahdi

Former Prime Minister; President, Umma Party

Sudan

 

Abdullah Ahmed An-Naim

Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law, Emory University

United States

 

John J. DeGioia

President, Georgetown University

United States

 

Charles P. Henderson

Executive Director, CrossCurrents

United States

 

Bob Roberts, Jr.

Senior Pastor, Northwood Church, Texas

United States

 

Hadi Semati

Professor, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran

Iran

 

Khalil Shikaki

Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research

Palestine

 

Thomas G. Wenski

Bishop and Chairman, International Policy Committee, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

United States

 

Participants:

 

Rana Abbas

Deputy Director of the Michigan Office, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; President, AWARE

United States

 

Abdullah Abdullah

Former Foreign Minister

Afghanistan

 

Hany Abu Assad

Film Director, ParadiseNow

Palestine

 

Raja Easa Al Gurg

Managing Director, Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group

United Arab Emirates

 

Abdul Aziz Abdul Latif Al Sharikh

Director, Kuwaiti Diplomat Institute

Kuwait

 

SamarAl-Gamal

Journalist, Al Ahram Hebdo

Egypt

 

Naif A.  Al-Mutawa

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Teshkeel Media Group          

Kuwait

 

Abdalla A. Alnajjar

President, Arab Science and Technology Fund

United Arab Emirates

 

Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Head, European Council for Fatwa and Research; Host, Ash-Shariah Wal-Hayat

Egypt

 

Nora Amin

Actress, Director, Writer

Egypt

 

Abdelmadjid Amrani

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Batna Algeria

Algeria

 

Hamid Ansari

Chairman, National Commission for Minorities

India

 

Nabih Ayad

Advisory Board Chairman, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)

United States

 

Hossam Badrawi

Chairman, People’s Assembly Education, Scientific Research Committee

Egypt

 

Kamel Ayadi

President, World Federation of Engineering Organizations

Tunisia

 

Robert Ayan

Partner, Minah Ventures

United States

 

Thomas Becker

President, Chautauqua Institution

United States

 

Mohammad Reza Behzadian

Former Deputy Minister, Department of Interior; Former President, Tehran Chamber of Commerce

Iran

 

Malika  Benaouda-Zouaoui

Doctoral Program Coordinator, Universite de Blida, Algeria Law Department

Algeria

 

Maryam Bibi

Founder, Khwendo Kor

Pakistan

 

Mukhtar Bibi

Community Activist

Pakistan

 

John Boright

Executive Director, International Affairs, U.S. National Academy of Sciences

United States

 

Marshall M. Bouton

President, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

United States

 

RonaldBruder

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Education for Employment Foundation

United States

 

Michael d’Arcy

Researcher in Science and Security, King's College London

United Kingdom

 

Abdelkrim Dahmen

Member of Parliament, Parliament of Algeria

Algeria

 

Richard E. Darilek

Director, RAND-Qatar Policy Institute

United States

 

Rola Dashti

Chairperson, KuwaitEconomic Society

Kuwait

 

James A. Donahue

President, The Graduate Theological Union

United States

 

Gamal Eid

Executive Director, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information

Egypt

 

Mohamed Elmenshawy

Editor-in-Chief, Taqrir Washington

Egypt

 

Betsy Fader

Director of Strategy and Planning/Program Director for Child Abuse Prevention, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

United States

 

Mark Galli

Managing Editor, Christianity Today

United States

 

Amr Gohar

CEO and Managing Director, National Telecom Card Company (NTCC); Chairman, CELLTEK

Egypt

 

Stephen R. Grand

Fellow and Director, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, Brookings Institution

United States

 

Vartan Gregorian

President, Carnegie Corporation

United States

 

L. Michael Hager

President, Education for Employment Foundation

United States

 

Taj Hamad

Secretary General, World Association of NGOs

United States

 

Husain Haqqani

Director, Center for International Relations, Boston University; Co-Chair, Islam and Democracy Project, Hudson Institute

United States

 

Hameed Haroon

Chief Executive Officer, Dawn Group of Newspapers

Pakistan

 

Mohamed Jawhar Hassan

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia

Malaysia

 

Hisham A. Hellyer

Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick

United Kingdom

 

Katharine Rhodes Henderson

Executive Vice President, Auburn Theological Seminary

United States

 

Komaruddin Hidayat

Rector/President, State Islamic University, Jakarta

Indonesia

 

Torla Bin Hj Hassan

Dean, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization

Malaysia

 

Samir Hosny

Director, Department of African Affairs and Afro-Arab Cooperation, League of Arab States

Sudan

 

Joel C. Hunter

Senior Pastor, Northland Church

United States

 

Syeda Abida Hussain

Former Ambassador to the United States

Pakistan

 

ShamilIdriss

Acting Director, Alliance of Civilizations, United Nations

United States

 

David Ignatius

Correspondent, The Washington Post

United States

 

Teresa Ann Isaac

Former Mayor, City of Lexington, Kentucky

United States

 

Najat M. Jumaan

Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Sana'a University; Deputy General Manager for Financial Affairs, MAJ Corp

Yemen

 

Samer Khoury

Executive Vice-President of Operations, Consolidated Contractors Company

Greece

 

Alex Kronemer

Co-Founder and Executive Producer, Unity Productions Foundation

United States

 

Steven Kull

Director, Program on International Policy Attitudes

United States

 

F. Stephen Larrabee

Corporate Chair in European Security, The RAND Corporation

United States

 

Mark Lynch

Associate Professor, Williams College

United States

 

Mona Makram-Ebeid

Professor, American University in Cairo; President, Association for Advancement of Education

Egypt

 

Maggie Mitchell Salem

Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, IFES

United States

 

Dalia Mogahed           

Executive Director, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, The Gallup Organization

United States

 

Mona Mohib

Vice Chair, Asian-Pacific Islander Caucus, Democratic National Committee

United States

 

Mehbooba Mufti

Member of Parliament, Parliament of India

India

 

Ali A. Mufuruki

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Infotech Investment Group LTD

Tanzania

 

Hiam Nawas

Analyst, Rothkopf Group

United States

 

GroverNorquist

President, Americans for Tax Reform

United States

                 

Samah            Norquist

Founder and President, Global Partners, LLC

United States

 

Michael O'Hanlon

Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

United States

 

Athar Osama

Senior Executive, ANGLE Technology Group

United States

 

Abdell Nasser Ould Ethmane

Foreign Secretary, SOS Slaves

Mauritania

 

Soli Ozel

Professor, Istanbul Bilgi University

Turkey

 

CarlosPascual

Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution

United States

 

Todd G. Patkin

Founder, Todd G. Patkin Companies

United States

 

Richard Peña

Program Director, New York Film Festival

United States

 

Asad-Abdul Rahman

Executive Chairman, Palestine International Institute

Palestine

 

Richard W. Rahn

Director, European Center for Economic Growth

United States

 

Douglas E. Ramage

IndonesiaCountry Representative, The Asia Foundation

United States

 

James Reardon-Anderson

Dean, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar

United States

 

Bruce Riedel

Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

United States

 

Imran Riffat

Finance Director, The Synergos Institute

United States

 

KhaledSaffuri

Founder and President, Islamic Free Market Institute

United States

 

Carol R. Saivetz

Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

United States

 

Cynthia P. Schneider

Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown University

United States

 

Jillian Schwedler

Assistant Professor, Government and Politics, University of Maryland; Chair, Board of Directors, Middle East Research and Information Project

United States

 

Chris Seiple

President, Institute for Global Engagement

United States

 

Gamal Shahin

Correspondent, El-Akhbar

Egypt

 

RonaldSider

Founder and President, Evangelicals for Social Action

United States

 

Faouzi Skali

Director-General, Spirit of Fes Foundation

Morocco

 

Anara Tabyshalieva

Director of Research Program, Institute for Regional Studies

Kyrgyzstan

 

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Fellow,Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

United States

 

Sakena Yacoobi

Founder and President, Afghan Institute of Learning

Afghanistan

 

Michael Yaffe

Academic Dean and Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University

United States

 

Mohammed Yahya

Founder and Executive Director, Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy

United States

 

Arfa Syeda Zehra

Chairperson, National Committee on the Status of Women in Pakistan

Pakistan

 

 

Security Task Force

 

Opening Speakers:

 

Mobashar Jawed (MJ) Akbar

Editor-in-Chief, The Asian Age

Pakistan

 

Jalal Al-Din Al-Sagheer

Imam, Al-Hadarah Al-Kazimiyah Mosque; Member of Parliament, Parliament of Iraq

Iraq

 

David Belt

Assistant Professor, National Security Strategy, National Defense University

United States

 

Philip Gordon

Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution

United States

 

Rami Khouri

Editor-at-Large, Daily Star; Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

Lebanon

 

Mark Lynch

Associate Professor, Williams College

United States

 

Kenneth Pollack

Senior Fellow, Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

United States

 

Participants:

 

Riad Al Assaad

Chairman and CEO, South for Construction

Lebanon

 

Muean Al Jabiry

President, Jefferson Group of Companies

Iraq

 

Syed Hamid Bin Syed Jaafar Albar

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Malaysia

 

SamarAl-Gamal

Journalist, Al-Ahram Hebdo

Egypt

 

Hamid Ansari

Chairman, National Commission for Minorities

India

 

Robert Ayan

Partner, Minah Ventures

United States

 

Yousef bin Alawi bin Abdulla

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Oman

 

RashidBin Mubarak Al Ghilani

Ambassador to Qatar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Oman

 

Marshall M. Bouton

President, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

United States

 

RonaldBruder

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Education for Employment Foundation

United States

 

Cathleen A. Campbell

President and Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation

United States

 

CengizCandar

Journalist, The New Anatolian

Turkey

 

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Assistant Managing Editor, The Washington Post    

United States

 

Abdelkrim Dahmen

Member of Parliament, Parliament of Algeria

Algeria

 

Jerrilynn Dodds

Professor and Art Historian, School of Architecture, City University of New York

United States

 

Mohamed Elmenshawy

Editor-in-Chief, Taqrir Washington

Egypt

 

Rokhsana Fiaz

Director, The Change Institute

United Kingdom

 

Vartan Gregorian

President, Carnegie Corporation

United States

 

Fadi Haddadin

Editor, misbahalhurriya.org

Jordan

 

Rehana Hakim           

Editor-in-Chief ,Newsline

Pakistan

 

Ali Hamade

Editorialist, An-Nahar Newspaper     

Lebanon

 

RenoL. Harnish III

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Department of State

United States

 

Hameed Haroon

Chief Executive Officer, Dawn Group of Newspapers

Pakistan

 

Mohamed Jawhar Hassan

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia

Malaysia

 

Hisham A. Hellyer

Research Fellow, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick

United Kingdom

 

Samir Hosny

Director of the Department of African Affairs and Afro-Arab Cooperation, League of Arab States

Sudan

 

David Ignatius

Correspondent, The Washington Post

United States

 

Martin Indyk

Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

United States

 

David Keene

Chairman, American Conservative Union; Managing Associate, Carmen Group, Inc.

United States

 

Leyla Khaiat

Honorary World President, World Association of Women Entrepreneurs

Tunisia

 

LydiaKhalil

Counter Terrorism Analyst, New York Police Department

United States

 

Jihad B. Khazen

Director, Al Hayat Newspaper Ltd.

United Kingdom

 

Samer Khoury

Executive Vice-President, Operations, Consolidated Contractors Company

Greece

 

Mark T. Kimmitt

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of Defense

United States

 

Chris Kojm

Senior Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

United States

 

Alex Kronemer

Co-Founder and Executive Producer, Unity Productions Foundation

United States

 

Steven Kull

Director, Program on International Policy Attitudes

United States

 

F. Stephen Larrabee

Corporate Chair in European Security, The RAND Corporation

United States

 

Aaron Lobel

President and Chairman, America Abroad Media

United States

 

Kristin  Lord

Associate Dean, Elliott School of International Relations, George Washington University

United States

 

Mona Makram-Ebeid

Professor, American University in Cairo; President, Association for Advancement of Education

Egypt

 

Shahid Malik

Member of Parliament, House of Commons

United Kingdom

 

Ikhwanul Kiram Mashuri

Chief Editor, Republika

Indonesia

 

Dalia Mogahed           

Executive Director, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, The Gallup Organization

United States

 

Amre Moussa

Secretary General, League of Arab States

Egypt

 

Mehbooba Mufti

Member of Parliament, Parliament of India

India

 

Ali A. Mufuruki

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Infotech Investment Group LTD

Tanzania

 

Abdul Karim Muhammadawi

Leader, Marsh Arab Party; Member of Parliament, Parliament of Iraq

Iraq

 

Elina Noor

Analyst, Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia

Malaysia

 

GroverNorquist

President, Americans for Tax Reform

United States

 

Samah            Norquist

Founder and President, Global Partners, LLC

United States

 

Michael Nozik

Producer, Syriana      

United States

 

Michael O'Hanlon

Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

United States

 

Cory Ondrejka

Chief Technology Officer, Linden Lab

United States

 

CarlosPascual

Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution

United States

 

Todd G. Patkin

Founder, Todd G. Patkin Companies

United States

 

Ashraf Jehangir Qazi

UN Special Representative for Iraq, United Nations  

Pakistan

 

Heather Raffo

Artist

United States

 

Habib Rehman           

Executive Director, ITC India, Inc.

India

 

Bruce Riedel

Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution

United States

 

Edward M. Rogers, Jr.           

Chairman, Barbour Griffith & Rogers, LLC

United States

 

Carol R. Saivetz

Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

United States

 

David M. Satterfield

Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq, Office of the Secretary, Department of State

United States

 

Kuanshbek Sazanov

President, Economic Financial Consulting

Kazakhstan

 

Gamal Shahin

Correspondent, El-Akhbar

Egypt

 

Zafar Siddiqi

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CNBC Arabiya

United Arab Emirates

 

Peter W. Singer

Senior Fellow and Director, 21st Century Defense Initiative, Brookings Institution

United States

 

Michael Yaffe

Academic Dean and Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University

United States

 

Mohammed Yahya

Founder and Executive Director, Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy

United States

 

Ahmad Samir Younis

Independent Consultant

United States

 

Arfa Syeda Zehra

Chairperson, National Committee on the Status of Women in Pakistan

Pakistan

 

Philip D. Zelikow

White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Virginia

United States

 

 

Media Leaders Seminar

 

Opening Speakers:

 

Mohamed Elmenshawy

Editor-in-Chief, Taqrir Washington

Egypt

 

David Ignatius

Correspondent, The Washington Post

United States

 

Carol R. Saivetz

Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

United States

 

Zafar Siddiqi

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CNBC Arabiya

United Kingdom

 

Participants:

 

Mobashar Jawed (MJ) Akbar

Editor-in-Chief, The Asian Age

India

 

SamarAl-Gamal

Journalist, Al-Ahram Hebdo

Egypt

 

CengizCandar

Journalist, The New Anatolian

Turkey

 

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Assistant Managing Editor, The Washington Post

United States

 

Fadi Haddadin

Editor, misbahalhurriya.org

Jordan

 

Ali Hamade

Editorialist, An-Nahar

Lebanon

 

Hameed Haroon

Chief Executive Officer, Dawn Group of Newspapers

Pakistan

 

Jihad B. Khazen

Director, Al Hayat Newspaper Ltd.

United Kingdom

 

Rami Khouri

Editor-at-Large, Daily Star; Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs

Lebanon

 

Aaron Lobel

President and Chairman, America Abroad Media

United States

 

Ikhwanul Kiram Mashuri

Chief Editor, Republika

Indonesia

 

Dalia Mogahed           

Executive Director, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, The Gallup Organization

United States

 

Jane Perlez

Correspondent, The New York Times

United States

 

Gamal Shahin

Correspondent, El-Akhbar

Egypt

 

 

Arts & Culture Seminar

 

Opening Speakers:

 

Hany Abu Assad

Film Director, ParadiseNow

Palestine

 

RobertPinsky

Former Poet Laureate of the United States; Professor, Boston University

United States

 

Participants:

 

Reza Abedini

Artist

Iran

 

Alicia Adams

Vice President of International Programming and Dance, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

United States

 

Naif A.  Al-Mutawa

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Teshkeel Media Group          

Kuwait

 

Nora Amin

Actress, Director, Writer

Egypt

 

Thomas Becker

President, Chautauqua Institution

United States

 

Feri Daftari

Curator of Islamic Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art

United States

 

Jerrilynn Dodds

Professor and Art Historian, School of Architecture, City University of New York

United States

 

Rajae El Mouhandiz

Artist

Morocco

 

Betsy Fader

Director of Strategy and Planning/Program Director for Child Abuse Prevention, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

United States

 

Bahman Farmanara

Film Director

Iran

 

Alex Kronemer

Co-Founder and Executive Producer, Unity Productions Foundation

United States

 

LaurenLevy

Creative Executive, Miramax Films

United States

 

Mohammed Ali Naqvi

Director and Producer, Munan Pictures

United States

 

Michael Nozik

Producer, Syriana      

United States

 

Cory Ondrejka

Chief Technology Officer, Linden Lab

United States

 

Richard Peña

Program Director, New York Film Festival

United States

 

Heather Raffo

Artist

United States

 

Ali Reza Sami–Azar

Former Director, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art; Head, Iranian Visual Arts Center

Iran

 

Azhar Usman

Comedian, 9 Saints Entertainment

United States

 

Lucas Welch

President and Founder, Soliya

United States

 

GideonYago

Screenwriter

United States

 

 

Science & Technology Seminar

 

Opening Speakers:

 

Kamel Ayadi

President, World Federation of Engineering Organizations

Tunisia

 

John Boright

Executive Director, International Affairs, U.S. National Academy of Sciences

United States

 

Cathleen A. Campbell

President and Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation

United States

 

RenoL. Harnish III

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Department of State

United States

 

Ali A. Mufuruki

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Infotech Investment Group LTD

Tanzania

 

Participants:

 

Raja Easa Al Gurg

Managing Director, Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group

United Arab Emirates

 

Abdelmadjid Amrani

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Batna Algeria

Algeria

 

Robert Ayan

Partner, Minah Ventures

United States

 

Hossam Badrawi

Chairman, People's Assembly Education, Scientific Research Committee

Egypt

 

Malika  Benaouda-Zouaoui

Doctoral Program Coordinator, Universite de Blida, Algeria Law Department

Algeria

 

RonaldBruder

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Education for Employment Foundation

United States

 

Michael d’Arcy

Researcher in Science and Security, King's College London

United Kingdom

 

Gamal Eid

Executive Director, Arabic Network for Human Rights Information

Egypt

 

Vartan Gregorian

President, Carnegie Corporation

United States

 

Amr Gohar

CEO and Managing Director, National Telecom Card Company (NTCC); Chairman, CELLTEK

Egypt

 

L. Michael Hager

President, Education for Employment Foundation

United States

 

Torla Bin Hj Hassan

Dean, International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization

Malaysia

 

James Holste

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Texas A&M University at Qatar

United States

 

Najat M. Jumaan

Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Sana'a University; Deputy General Manager for Financial Affairs, MAJ Corp

Yemen

 

Leyla Khaiat

Honorary World President, World Association of Women Entrepreneurs

Tunisia

 

Kristin Lord

Associate Dean, Elliott School of International Relations, George Washington University

United States

 

Athar Osama

Senior Executive, ANGLE Technology Group

United States

 

Richard W. Rahn

Director, American Council for Capital Formation

United States

 

Imran Riffat

Finance Director, The Synergos Institute

United States

 

KhaledSaffuri

Founder and President, Islamic Free Market Institute

United States

 

Kuanshbek Sazanov

President, Economic Financial Consulting

Kazakhstan