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

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