
2010 Participants
UNITED STATES & EUROPE
Shere Abbott
Deputy Science Advisor, White
House Office on Science and
Technology Policy
Al-Hajj Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid
Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood
Mohammed Mahfoodh Al
Ardhi
Board Member, Investcorp and
Brookings International Advisory
Board
Hady Amr
Fellow and Director, Brookings
Doha Center, Saban Center for
Middle East Policy, The Brookings
Institution
Durriya Badani
Project Manager, Project on U.S.
Relations with the Islamic World,
Saban Center for Middle East
Policy, The Brookings Institution
Jihad Brown
Deputy Director
Tabah Foundation
Lara Campbell
Director, International
Partnerships, Center for
International Science and
Technology Advancement
Gail Chalef
Director of Communications,
Foreign Policy, The Brookings
Institution
John Bryson Chane
Bishop of Washington,
Washington National Cathedral
David Chavern
Chief Operating Officer and
Senior Vice President,
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence Chickering
Founder, Educate Girls Globally
Aysha Chowdhry
Research Analyst and Publications
Manager, Project on U.S.
Relations with the Islamic World,
Saban Center for Middle East
Policy, The Brookings Institution
Vishakha Desai
President, Asia Society
Jeffrey Feltman
Assistant Secretary for Near
Eastern Affairs, United States
Department of State
Marc Ginsberg
President, Layalina Productions,
Inc.
Stephen R. Grand
Fellow and Director, Project on
U.S. Relations with the Islamic
World, Saban Center for Middle
East Policy, The Brookings
Institution
Mohamed Hagmagid
Vice President, Islamic Society of
North America (ISNA)
Shadi Hamid
Deputy Director, Brookings Doha
Center; Fellow, Saban Center for
Middle East Policy, The Brookings
Institution
Edward Jack Hardin
Founding Partner, Rogers and
Hardin LLP
Anwer Hasan
Chairman, Maryland Governor’s
Commission on Middle Eastern
American Affairs
Yahya Hendi
Chaplain, Georgetown University
Richard Holbrooke
Special Representative for
Afghanistan and Pakistan, United
States Department of State
Phil Howard
Associate Professor, University of
Washington
Joel Hunter
Pastor, Northland Church
Rashad Hussain
Deputy Associate Council to the
President, The White House
Martin S. Indyk
Vice President and Director
Foreign Policy Studies
The Brookings Institution
Benjamin Jacobs
Managing Member and Founder,
JBG Holding Company
Imtiaz Khan
Congress of Muslim World
Philanthropists
Joe Klein
Columnist, Time Magazine
Kalsoom Lakhani
Director, ML Resources, LLC
Muslim Lakhani
Chairman and CEO of ML
Resources and ML Private
Investments, LLC.
Bill Lawrence
Advisor for Science Partnerships,
United States Department of
State
al-Husein Madhany
Independent Consultant
Simon Mainwaring
President, Mainwaring Creative
Alan Makovsky
Senior Professional Staff Member,
House Committee on Foreign
Affairs
Peter Mandaville
Associate Professor of
Government & Politics
Co-Director, Center for Global
Studies, George Mason University
Theodore McCarrick
Archbishop Emeritus of
Washington, Catholic Church
Michael Kim McQuay
Regional Director for Law and
Governance, Asia Foundation
Laurie Meadoff
CEO, Cancer Schmancer
Quinn Mecham
Member, Office of Policy Planning
Staff, United States Department
of State
Nicco Mele
President & Co-Founder,
echoditto.com
David Michel
Senior Associate
Director, Environmental Security
The Henry L. Stimson Center
Dalia Mogahed
Senior Analyst and Executive
Director, Gallup Center for
Muslim Studies
Fuad Nahdi
Director, Radical Middle Way
United Kingdom
Rami Nashishibi
Executive Director, Inner-City
Muslim Action Network
Vali Nasr
Senior Advisor, Office of Special
Representative for Afghanistan
and Pakistan, United States
Department of State
Shuja Nawaz
Director, South Asia Center, The
Atlantic Council
Norm Neureiter
Senior Advisor, Center for Science
Diplomacy, American Association
for the Advancement of Science
Iqbal Noor Ali
Senior Advisor,
Aga Khan Development Network
Michael E. O’Hanlon
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy
Studies, The Brookings Institution
Cory Ondrejka
Co-Creator, Second Life
Farah Pandith
Special Representative for Muslim
Communities, United States
Department of State
Amit Pandya
Senior Associate, The Henry L.
Stimson Center
John L. Peterson
Canon, Center for Global Justice
and Reconciliation, Washington
National Cathedral
Kenneth Pollack
Director, Saban Center for
Middle East Policy, The Brookings
Institution
Saafir Rabb
Senior Advisor to the Dean,
Annenberg School for
Communications and Journalism,
University of Southern California
Pradeep Ramamurthy
Senior Director for Global
Enagagement, The White House
Bruce Riedel
Senior Fellow, Saban Center for
Middle East Policy, The Brookings
Institution
Alec Ross
Senior Adviser on Innovation,
United States Department of
State
Barnett Rubin
Director of Studies and Senior
Fellow, Center on International
Cooperation, New York University
Taleb Salhab
Program Director, Peace and
Security, Rockefeller Brothers
Fund
David Saperstein
Director, Religious Action Center
of Reform Judaism
Cynthia Schneider
Nonresident Senior Fellow,
The Brookings Institution;
Distinguished Professor in
the Practice of Diplomacy
Georgetown University
Philip Seib
Director, USC Center for Public
Diplomacy
Abbi Shabazz
Managing Director, Exwaze, LLC
Christal L. Shrader
Project Assistant, Project on U.S.
Relations with the Islamic World,
Saban Center for Middle East
Policy, The Brookings Institution
Fatema Sumar
Professional Staff Member, Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations
Strobe Talbott
President, The Brookings
Institution
Amra Tareen
CEO, All Voices
Shibley Telhami
Nonresident Senior Fellow, The
Brookings Institution
Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace
and Development, University of
Maryland, College Park
Vaughan Turekian
Chief International Officer,
American Association for the
Advancement of Science
Abdirisak Waberi
Chairman, Islamic Association of
Sweden
Sweden
Doug Wilson
Executive Vice President, The
Howard Gilman Foundation
Tamara Cofman-Wittes
Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Near Eastern Affairs, United States
Department of State
Elias Zerhouni
United States Science Envoy,
United States Department of
State
Ahmed Zewail
United States Science Envoy,
United States Department of
State
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
Salah Ali Abdulrahman
National Islamic Forum
Bahrain
Abdul Aziz bin Ali bin Rashid
Al Nuaimi
Chairman, Green Base
Environmental Services
UAE
Mohammed Abdullah Mutib
Al-Rumaihi
Assistant Foreign Minister for
Follow-Up Affairs
Qatar
Aisha bint Faleh Al Thani
Qatar Supreme Education Council
Qatar
Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani
Prime Minister and Foreign
Minister of State of Qatar
Qatar
Ibrahim al-Turki
Wafi Corp
Saudi Arabia
Aysha Alkusayer
Assistant Executive Manager,
Alwaleed bin Talal Foundation
Saudi Arabia
Hayfaa Almudhaf
Director of the Public Relations
and Publications Division, Kuwait
Institute for Scientific Research
Kuwait
Anas Altikriti
Islamic Party of Iraq
Iraq
Cherif Mohamed Aly Aïdara
Founder, Mozdahir International
Institute
Senegal
Jasser Auda
Associate Professor in Public
Policy Program, Faculty of Islamic
Studies, Qatar Foundation
Qatar
Abdallah Bin Bayyah
King Abdulaziz University
Saudi Arabia
Suheil Dawani
Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem
Palestinian Territories
Shereen El Feki
American University of Cairo
Advisor, Meedan
Egypt
Dia El Din El Quosy
Advisor, Ministry of Water
Resources and Irrigation
Egypt
Mohamed El Raey
Professor of Environmental
Physics, University of Alexandria
Egypt
Asha Hagi Elmi
Chairperson, Save Somali Women
and Children
Somalia
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Prime Minister, Republic of
Turkey
Turkey
Nabil Fahmy
Dean of the School of Public
Affairs, American University in
Cairo
Egypt
Ashraf Ghani
Chairman, Institute for State
Effectiveness
Afghanistan
Claudette Habesch
Secretary General, Caritas
Jerusalem
Palestinian Territories
Ismid Hadad
Chair, Working Group on Financial
Mechanism, National Council
on Climate Change of the Republic
of Indonesia
Indonesia
Farkhonda Hassan
Secretary General, National
Council for Women in Egypt
Egypt
Mohamed Hassan
President, Academy of Sciences
for the Developing World
Sudan
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Chairman, Ibn Khaldun Center
for Development Studies
Egypt
Ahmad Iravani
Professor, Catholic University of
America
IRAN
Ali Jaber
Dean of the Mohammed
Bin Rashid School of
Communication, The American
University in Dubai
UAE
Temel Karamolloglu
Vice President, Saadet Party
Turkey
Amr Khaled
Chairman of Right Start
Foundation International
Egypt
Hani Khoja
Owner, Elixir Marketing
Consultancy
Saudi Arabia
Hady Mahfouz
President, Holy Spirit Seminary
Lebanon
Abdul Salam Majali
President, Islamic Academy of
Sciences
JordAn
Riyaad Minty
Senior New Media Analyst,
Al-Jazeera
Qatar
Jahid Mohseni
Director and CEO, Moby Group
Afghanistan
Hamdie Morsi
Egypt
Wael Mua’lla
President, University of Damascus
Syria
Abdul Aziz Omari
Member of Parliament
Morocco
Mahazir Osman
Islamic Front
Sudan
Sabri Samirah
Director of the Studies’ Unit,
Middle East Studies Center
Jordan
Youba Sokona
Executive Secretary, Sahara and
Sahel Observatory
Tunisia
Theophilos
Greek Orthodox Patriarch of
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
Moneef Zou’bi
Director General, Islamic
Academy of Sciences
Jordan
SOUTH & SOUTHEAST ASIA
Junaid Ahmad
Lahore University of Management
Sciences
Pakistan
Khursheed Ahmad
Chairman, Institute of Policy
Studies
Pakistan
Syed Azman Syed Ahmad
Central Working Committee
Member and State Assemblyman,
Pan-Islamic Party of Malaysia
Malaysia
M.J. Akbar
Chairman and Director of
Publications, Covert Magazine
India
Ghaffur Aziz
Jamaat-e-Islami
Pakistan
Safrullah Dipatuan
Moro Islamic Liberation Front
(MILF)
Philippines
Mehlum Hakimuddin
Director, Attalim, Dawat-e-
Hadiyah
India
Syed Iqbal Hasnain
Senior Fellow, The Energy and
Resources Institute
India
Safeena Husain
Executive Director, Educate Girls
Globally
India
Anwar Ibrahim
Leader of Parliamentary
Opposition
Malaysia
Asclepias Indriyanto
Executive Director, Indonesian
Institute for Energy Economics
Indonesia
Junaid Jamshed
Philanthropist
Pakistan
Shafqat Kakakhel
Advisor on Environment,
Sustainable Development Policy
Institute
Pakistan
Siti Mariah binti Mahmud
Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS)
Malaysia
Nursanita Nasution
Prosperous Justice Party (PKS)
Indonesia
Ainun Nishat
Senior Advisor, Climate
Change, International Union for
Conservation of Nature
Bangladesh
Atiq Rahman
Executive Director, Bangladesh
Center for Advanced Studies
Bangladesh
Amina Rasul
Asian Institute of Management
Philippines
Anas Saidi
Director, Pesantren and
Community Development (P3M)
Indonesia
Kunwar Schahzeb
Director, Iqbal Academy
Pakistan
Bridget Welsh
Associate Professor, Singapore
Management University
Singapore
Huma Yusuf
Features Editor, DAWN
newspaper
Pakistan






