
2011 Participants
NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE
Geneive Abdo
Director, Iran Program, the Century Foundation
Dimple Abichandani
Program Officer, Proteus Fund
Odeh Aburdene
President, OAI Advisors
Aakif Ahmad
Vice President, Convergence
Akbar Ahmed
Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University
Madeleine K. Albright
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; former U.S. Secretary of State
Ala Al-Hamarneh
Senior Researcher, Center for Research on the Arab World, University of Mainz GERMANY
Maryam Al-Khawaja
Head, Foreign Relations Office, Bahrain Center for Human Rights UNITED KINGDOM
Salam al-Marayati
President, Muslim Public Affairs Council
Jon Alterman
Director, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Akram Al-Turk
Senior Research Assistant/ Program Coordinator, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings
Emad Al-Turk
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, International Museum of Muslim Cultures
Shahed Amanullah
Senior Advisor for Technology, U.S. Department of State
Hady Amr
Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Middle East, U.S. Agency for International Development
William Antholis
Managing Director, the Brookings Institution
Wadiah Atiyah
Vice President, Middle East Operations, Laureate Education
Durriya Badani
Deputy Director, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings
Manilee Bagheritari
International Affairs Consultant FRANCE
Mickey Bergman
Director, Middle East Programs, The Aspen Institute
Howard Berman
Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives
Jonah Blank
Policy Director, South and Southeast Asia, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Barbara Bodine
Diplomat in Residence, Princeton University
John Boright
Executive Director, International Affairs, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Marshall Breger
Professor, Catholic University of America Law School
Barbara Brittingham
President, Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, New England Association of Schools and Colleges
David Brooks
Columnist, The New York Times
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies; former National Security Advisor
Daniel L. Byman
Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings
J. Scott Carpenter
Keston Family Fellow, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Mustafa Ceric
Grand Mufti of Bosnia- Herzegovina
BOSNIA
Wendy Chamberlin
President, Middle East Institute
Sandra Charles
President, C&O Resources
Aysha Chowdhry
Special Assistant, Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, U.S. Agency for International Development
Stephen Cohen
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings
Juan Cole
Director, Center for South Asian Studies and Professor of History, University of Michigan
Maurice Irfan Coles
Chief Executive Officer, Curriculum Enrichment for the Common Era
UNITED KINGDOM
Steven A. Cook
Senior Fellow, Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Ernesto Cuadra
Lead Education Specialist, World Bank
Vishakha Desai
President, Asia Society
Richard Dickerson
Senior Director, Strategic Communications, U.S. Agency for International Development
Jane Dixon
Senior Advisor, Interfaith Alliance
Robert J. Einhorn
Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, U.S. Department of State
Makram Nu’Man El-Amin
Imam, Masjid An-Nur Islamic Centers of Minneapolis and St. Paul
Plemon El-Amin
Imam Emeritus, Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam
Khaled Elgindy
Visiting Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings
Keith Ellison
Congressman, U.S. House of Representatives
Jeffrey Feltman
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Robert Fersh
President, Convergence
Marc Ginsberg
Senior Vice President, APCO Worldwide
Stephen Grand
Director, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings
David Gregory
Host, Meet the Press
Anne Hagood
Managing Editor, Layalina Productions
Anwer Hasan
Chairman, Maryland Governor’s Commission on Middle Eastern American Affairs
Mohamed Hassan
Committee Member, London Somali Youth Forum
UNITED KINGDOM
Yahya Hendi
Founder and President, Clergy Beyond Borders
Fiona Hill
Director, Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings
Qamar-ul Huda
Senior Program Officer, Religion and Peacemaking Center, U.S. Institute of Peace
Rashad Hussain
Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference
David Ignatius
Columnist, The Washington Post
Martin Indyk
Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings
Ahmad Iravani
President and Executive Director, Center for the Study of Islam and the Middle East
Adel Iskandar
Professor, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
Martin Itzkow
Lead Facilitator, Canadian Muslim Leadership Institute
CANADA
Hassan Jaber
Executive Director, Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services
Lionel C. Johnson
Vice President, Middle East Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Mehrangiz Kar
Research Fellow, Dubai Initiative, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School
Theodore Kattouf
President, AMIDEAST
Brian Katulis
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
John Kerry
Senator and Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Daisy Khan
Executive Director, American Society for Muslim Advancement
Humera Khan
Founder, An-Nisa Society
UNITED KINGDOM
Humera Khan
Executive Director, Muflehun
Cheryl Kiser
Professor, Babson College
James Kitfield
National Security and Foreign Affairs Correspondent, National Journal
Joe Klein
Columnist, TIME Magazine
Andrew Kohut
President, Pew Research Center
Alex Kronemer
Executive Producer, Unity Productions Foundation
Atif Kubursi
Professor Emeritus, McMaster University
CANADA
Steven Kull
Director, Program on International Policy Attitudes
Ellen Laipson
President and Chief Executive Officer, Stimson Center
Kalsoom Lakhani
Director, Social Vision, ML Resources, LLC
Muslim Lakhani
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ML Resources, LLC and ML Private Investments, LLC
Arif Lalani
Director General, Policy Staff, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
CANADA
Joseph Evan LeBaron
Ambassador, Embassy of the U.S. in Qatar
Aaron Lobel
President, America Abroad Media
Kristin Lord
Vice President and Director of Studies, Center for a New American Security
Brie Loskota
Managing Director, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California
Marc Lynch
Associate Professor, Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
al-Husein Madhany
Chief of Staff, World Leadership Program
Mohammed Magid
President, Islamic Society of North America
Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov
Senior Researcher, Dagestan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
RUSSIA
Shahid Malik
Chief Executive Officer, Global Cooperation and Development Partnerships
UNITED KINGDOM
Robert Malley
Program Director, Middle East and North Africa Program, International Crisis Group
Suzanne Maloney
Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings
Peter Mandaville
Member, Department of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State
Radwan Masmoudi
President, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy
Daanish Masood
Head, Media Program, UN Alliance of Civilizations
Aminah (Beverly) McCloud
Professor, DePaul University
Hisham Melhem
Washington Bureau Chief, Al Arabiya News Channel
Hedieh Mirahmadi
President, World Organization for Resource Development and Education
Paul Monteiro
Associate Director, Office of Public Engagement, White House
Emile Nakhleh
Former Senior Intelligence Service Officer
Farhan Nizami
Director, Oxford Center for Islamic Studies
UNITED KINGDOM
Michael O’Hanlon
Director of Research, Foreign Policy Studies at Brookings
Martin O’Malley
Governor, State of Maryland
Manal Omar
Director, Iraq Programs, U.S. Institute of Peace
Farah Anwar Pandith
Special Representative to Muslim Communities, U.S. Department of State
Patti McGill Peterson
Senior Associate, Institute for Higher Education Policy
William Plater
Chancellor’s Professor, Indiana University
Kenneth M. Pollack
Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings
Aziz Poonawalla
Founder and Blogger, City of Brass
Saafir Rabb
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Managing Opportunity, Inc.
Pradeep Ramamurthy
Deputy Counselor for Innovation, U.S. Agency for International Development
Jason Rao
Senior Policy Advisor for Global Science Engagement, Office of Science and
Technology Policy, White House
Bruce Riedel
Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings
Dennis Ross
Senior Director for the Central Region, National Security Council, White House
Nadia Roumani
Co-Founder and Director, American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute
Joel Rubin
Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer, National Security Network
Mansoor Sabree
Resident Imam, Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam
Archana Sahgal
Program Officer, Open Society Foundations
Fatina Salaheddine
Al-Sahafa Newspaper
Maggie Mitchell Salem
Executive Director, Qatar Foundation International
David Saperstein
Director and Counsel, Religious Action Center
Cynthia Schneider
Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Senior Nonresident Fellow at Brookings
Kate Seelye
Vice President, Middle East Institute
Chris Seiple
President, Institute for Global Engagement
Leon Shahabian
Vice President, Layalina Productions
Seteney Shami
Program Director, Eurasia, Social Science Research Council
Jay Snyder
Principal, HBJ Investments, LLC
Julie Song
Staff Assistant, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings
Denise Spellberg
Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Arsalan Suleman
Deputy Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference
Fatema Sumar
Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Afeefa Syeed
Senior Culture and Development Advisor, U.S. Agency for International Development
Strobe Talbott
President, the Brookings Institution
Puneet Talwar
Senior Director for the Gulf States, Iran, and Iraq, National Security Council, White
House
C. Holland Taylor
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Libforall Foundation
Shibley Telhami
Nonresident Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings; Anwar Sadat Chair, University of Maryland
Alex Thier
Director, Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, U.S. Agency for International Development
Krista Tippett
Host, Being
Vaughan Turekian
Chief International Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Abeezar Tyebji
Chief Executive Officer, Shipcom Wireless
Toni Verstandig
Executive Director, Middle East Programs, the Aspen Institute
Margaret Warner
Senior Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
Suhaib Webb
Member, Muslim American Society
Rebecca White
Intern, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at Brookings
Hillary Wiesner
Program Director, Islam Initiative, Carnegie Corporation of New York
Quintan Wiktorowicz
Senior Director of Global Engagement, White House
Katherine Wilkens
Vice President, Communications, AMIDEAST
Jennifer L. Windsor
Associate Dean for Programs, Georgetown University
Tamara Cofman Wittes
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Nancy Yuan
Vice President, Asia Foundation
Huma Yusuf
Pakistan Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Fareed Zakaria
Contributing Editor, TIME Magazine; Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS
Shireen Zaman
Executive Director, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
James Zogby
Founder and President, Arab American Institute
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
M. Badr Aboul-Ela
Executive Director, Commission for Academic Accreditation
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Ahmed Abu-Haiba
Founder, 4shbab TV
EGYPT
Hessa Al Aali
Director, Supreme Education Council
QATAR
Hassan Mohammed Al- Ansari
Editor-in-Chief, Qatar Tribune
QATAR
Nabil Al-Arabi
Foreign Minister
EGYPT
Darwish Al-Emadi
Director, Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University
QATAR
Jaber Awad Al-Jaberi
Member, Iraqi Council of Representatives
IRAQ
Hafez Al Mirazi
Director, Adham Center for Journalism
EGYPT
Naif Al-Mutawa
Creator, THE 99
KUWAIT
Mohammed Abdullah Mutib Al-Rumaihi
Assistant Foreign Minister of Follow-up Affairs
QATAR
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani
Prime Minister and Foreign Minister
QATAR
Jasser Auda
Associate Professor of Public Policy in Islam, Qatar Foundation
QATAR
Hossam Bahgat
Founder and Director, Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
EGYPT
Abdallah Bin Bayyah
Sheikh, The University of King Abdulaziz
SAUDI ARABIA
Ahmad Dallal
Provost, American University of Beirut
LEBANON
Suheil Dawani
Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem
PALESTINIAN
Adnan El Amine
Professor, Department of Education, American University of Beirut
LEBANON
Mona El Baradei
Professor and former Dean, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University
EGYPT
Emad El Maghraby
Adjunct Professor, American University in Dubai
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Nabil Fahmy
Founding Dean, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, American University in Cairo; former Ambassador of Egypt to the U.S.
EGYPT
Mogamat Rashaad Fortune
Founder and Executive Member, Re.think Leadership
SOUTH AFRICA
Amr Gohar
Chairman, ECCO Outsourcing
EGYPT
Shadi Hamid
Director of Research and Fellow, Brookings Doha Center
QATAR
Hisham (H.A.) Hellyer
Fellow, Center for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick
EGYPT
Rima Khalaf Hunaidi
Under Secretary General and Executive Secretary, UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
LEBANON
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Visiting Professor, Center on Religion, Culture, and Conflict, Drew University
EGYPT
Fadi Ismail
General Manager, O3 Productions, MBC Group
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Nasser Judeh
Foreign Minister
JORDAN
Taher Kanaan
Managing Director, Jordan Center for Public Policy Research and Dialogue
JORDAN
Hisham Kassem
Former Publisher, Cairo Times and Al-Masry Al-Youm
EGYPT
Jamal Khashoggi
General Manager and Editor, Alwaleed News Channel
SAUDI ARABIA
Mirette Mabrouk
Director of Communications, Economic Research Forum
EGYPT
Sanaa Makhlouf
Senior Instructor, Department of Rhetoric and Composition, American University in Cairo
EGYPT
Dalia Mogahed
Senior Analyst, Executive Director, Abu Dhabi Gallup Center
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Hani Mourtada
Former Minister of Higher Education; former President, Damascus University
SYRIA
Ali Mufuruki
Executive Chairman, Infotech Investment Group LTD
TANZANIA
Abdel Moneim Osman
Director, Regional Bureau for Education in the Arab States; Representative, UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
LEBANON
Driss Ouaouicha
Professor, Al Akhawayn University
MOROCCO
Pawan Patil
Chief Economist, Silatech
QATAR
Masood Razaq
Executive Director, Goodgate
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Salman Shaikh
Director and Fellow, Brookings Doha Center
QATAR
Ibrahim Sharqieh
Deputy Director and Fellow, Brookings Doha Center
QATAR
Winfred Thompson
President, American University of Kuwait
KUWAIT
Dov Weissglas
Senior Partner, Weissglas- Almagor
ISRAEL
Michael Young
Opinion Editor, The Daily Star
LEBANON
Ahmed Younis
Senior Analyst, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies; Director of Strategic Partnerships and Communications, Silatech
QATAR
Mohamed Younis
Senior Analyst, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies
QATAR
Tarik Yousef
Dean, Dubai School of Government
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Bilkisu Yusuf
Executive Director, Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations
NIGERIA
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Abdullah Abdullah
Chairman, Coalition for Hope and Change; former Minister of Foreign Affairs
AFGHANISTAN
Salman Ahmad
Musician; UN Goodwill Ambassador
PAKISTAN 2011
Salahuddin Aminuzzaman
Professor of Public Administration, University of Dhaka
BANGLADESH
Mohammad Syafi’i Anwar
Executive Director, International Center for Islam and Pluralism
INDONESIA
Amina Rasul-Bernardo
President, Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy
PHILIPPINES
Robin Bush
Country Representative, the Asia Foundation
INDONESIA
Yasmin Busran-Lao
Executive Director, Al- Mujadilah Development Foundation
PHILIPPINES
Wajahat Habibullah
Former Chief Information Commissioner, Government of India
INDIA
Mehlam Hakimuddin
Dawat-e-Hadiyah Attalim
INDIA
Anwar Ibrahim
Parliamentary opposition leader; former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister
MALAYSIA
Palwasha Lena Kakar
Head, Women’s Rights in Islam, Asia Foundation
AFGHANISTAN
Zaid Kamaruddin
President, Congregation for Islamic Reform (JIM)
MALAYSIA
Taher Khan
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Interflow Group of Companies
PAKISTAN
Muddassar Malik
Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, BMA Capital
PAKISTAN
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
President, Center for Policy Research
INDIA
Jahid Mohseni
Co-Founder, Moby Group
AFGHANISTAN
Saad Mohseni
Co-Founder, Moby Group
AFGHANISTAN
Atta-ur Rahman
Coordinator General, Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Organization of the Islamic Conference
PAKISTAN
Sherry Rehman
Ranking Member, National Security Committee; President, Jinnah Institute
PAKISTAN
Hassina Sherjan
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Aid Afghanistan for Education
AFGHANISTAN
M. Din Syamsuddin
President, Muhammadiyah Association
INDONESIA
Muhammad Tahir-ul- Qadri
Sheikh, Minhaj-ul-Quran International
PAKISTAN
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
Secretary-General, Organization of the Islamic Conference
TURKEY






