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Shere Abbott Hamdi el-Morsi United States Egypt Shere Abbott is the Associate Direc- Hamdi el-Morsi is the former tor for Environment at the White chairman of Al-Fath Association House Office of Science and Tech- for Community Development in nology Policy. Before her current Al-Mansoura, Egypt and has re- position, Abbott was director of the searched the leadership role of Center for Science and Practice of boards of trustees of charitable as- Sustainability at The University of Texas at Austin and sociations and NGOs in Egypt. He is a founding board a faculty member in the College of Liberal Arts. Prior member of Mogadishu University in Somalia and the to working at The University of Texas, Abbott was chief Russian Islamic University in Kazan, Russia. Mr. el- international officer of the American Association for the Morsi received his Bachelor of Science in biology and his Advancement of Science (AAAS), responsible for the Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cairo. International Office where she established and directed the Center for Science, Innovation and Sustainable De- H.P. Goldfield velopment. Previously, she had consulted on environ- United States mental science and sustainable development for private H.P. Goldfield is Vice Chairman of foundations, the World Bank, the Brookings Institution, Stonebridge International, LLC, and other non-governmental organizations. Until 2001, where he is responsible for devel- Abbott worked at the National Academies’ National Re- oping and executing Washington- search Council over a 17-year period in several capacities, based strategies in support of the including executive director of the Board on Sustainable business goals of Stonebridge’s in- Development, where she directed the Sustainability Tran- ternational clients. He also leads the Middle East and sition Study and the Global Change Research Program. India practice groups of the company. In his prior public sector service, Mr. Goldfield served as Assistant Sandra Charles Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development. This United States experience and others have provided Mr. Goldfield Sandra Charles is President and with extensive expertise on international trade and in- CEO of C&O Resources, Inc. vestment issues. Mr. Goldfield was previously a Mem- based in Washington, D.C. She has ber of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private over 16 years of experience in the Investment Corporation and the Export-Import Bank United States Government national of the United States (ex-officio). He also served as a security and foreign policy commu- member of the White House staff under President Ford nity. Ms. Charles has previously served as Director of and as Associate Counsel to President Reagan. In ad- Near East and South Asia Affairs at the National Security dition, he served as a member of the National Finance Council and Deputy Assistant Secretary (acting) of the Committee for the Bush-Quayle ‘88 and ‘92 Presiden- Office of the Secretary of Defense, International Security tial campaigns and as Director of Congressional Liai- Affairs. She has participated in high level negotiations son for Dole/Kemp ‘96. He was a member of the Na- and policy development on security cooperation, inter- tional Finance Committee for the Bush-Cheney 2000 national agreements, foreign military sales, peace initia- Presidential campaign and was active in the 2004 cam- tives, and crisis management, including the first Bush paign. Mr. Goldfield is also a member of the Board of Administration’s policy for Operation Desert Storm. Advisors of the Middle East Institute, and a Member

2010 U.S.-ISLAMIC WORLD FORUM add e n dum W ri t i n g t h e N e x t C h a p t e r of the Board of Directors of Black and Veatch Holding Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press, as a consul- Company, the National Chamber Foundation Board tant on the Arab American community. Mr. Jaber has and the Israel Policy Forum. also taught Arabic language and culture at the Univer- sity of Michigan Dearborn. Kamal Helbawy United Kingdom Temel Karamollaoğlu Dr. Kamal Helbawy is currently Turkey the chairman of the Centre for the Temel Karamollaoğlu is currently Study of Terrorism and an advisor serving as Vice President of the Saa- at the Global Civilizations Study det party. Before his current posi- Centre, both located in the United tion, he held a number of positions Kingdom. Dr. Helbawy was born in the government. Between 1967 in Egypt in 1939 and educated and trained as a politi- and 1972, he worked as an expert cal scientist in his home country. He joined the Mus- in Turkey’s State Planning Organization and in 1975 lim Brotherhood in 1951, and later served as its official was appointed the General Director of the Incentives spokesman in the West before resigning in 1997. He and Implementation Office in the Ministry of Science has lectured at many universities, travelled worldwide, and Technology. In 1977 he was elected as a Member of and has helped establish many institutions, including Parliament from the Welfare Party (MSP) and in 1989 the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY). In ad- was elected as the Mayor of Sivas. In the 1995 and 1999 dition to founding and directing WAMY, Dr. Helbawy General Elections, he was again elected as MP from the was also chairman of the Muslim Association of Britain, Welfare Party, where he served as the Deputy Chairman founded the Muslim Council of Britain, and was a lec- of the Parliamentary Group of the Welfare Party until turer at the Institute of Policy Studies in Pakistan. He 1998. While in the Parliament, he was a member of has written and translated many books and articles on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Islam, the West, Islamic movements, and Afghanistan. (1977-1980) and later as the member of the Parliamen- tary Assembly of NATO (1995-2002). After the Consti- Hassan Jaber tutional Court banned the Welfare Party, he joined the United States Virtue Party and later the Saadet Party. Hassan Jaber is Executive Direc- tor and past CEO of the Arab Allen Keiswetter Community Center for Economic United States and Social Services (ACCESS). Allen Keiswetter, a retired Senior During his tenure, Mr. Jaber has Foreign Service Officer, is a Senior helped transform ACCESS from a Consultant at C&O Resources, a storefront organization into the largest Arab American Scholar at the Middle East Insti- organization in the country. He has been responsible tute and an Adjunct Professor at for developing various social and legal programs, and the University of Maryland. He administering the organization’s immigration and ad- served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near vocacy services. He is a major proponent for the ad- Eastern Affairs from 2000-2001, Director of Arabian vancement of ACCESS’ development in the depart- Peninsula Affairs in the Near East Bureau (1998-2000) ments of mental and community health, employment and Director of the Office of Intelligence Liaison in services and job training, and his avid support for ush- the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1996-1998) ering in the next generation has helped to expand AC- and NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Po- CESS’ youth and education services. Mr. Jaber’s roles litical Affairs (1993-1996). He also held posts at the at ACCESS vary from community and government US Embassies in Riyadh, Sanaa, Khartoum, Baghdad, relations, strategic planning and analysis, fund raising Tunis and Beirut. He was Senior Advisor to the US and developing and implementation of personnel poli- Delegation to the UN General Assembly, chaired the cies. He now manages an operating budget of more Middle East Working Group on Water Resources, and than $15 million. Mr. Jaber is frequently interviewed taught courses on Islam and on the Middle East at the by local and national media, including National Public National War College and the National Defense Intel- Radio, the BBC, Newsweek, CNN, Fox 2 News, the ligence College.

2010 U.S.-ISLAMIC WORLD FORUM add e n dum W ri t i n g t h e N e x t C h a p t e r John Kerry Nature, Scientific American, Slate, and the New Repbu- United States lic, among others. His op-eds have appeared in the New John Kerry is the senior United York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Fi- States Senator from Massachusetts nancial Times. and is the Chairman of the Sen- ate Foreign Relations Committee. Doyle McManus Before being elected to the United United States States Senate in 1984, he served as Doyle McManus, Washington Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1983 un- columnist for the Los Angeles til 1985. Since then, he has served in many capacities Times, has reported on national in the Senate, including as Chairman of the Senate Se- and international issues from lect Committee on POW/MIA Affairs from 1991 until Washington for 27 years. He has 1993. In addition to his role as Chairman of the For- been a foreign correspondent in eign Relations Committee, Mr. Kerry currently serves Europe, the Middle East and Central America, report- on three other committees: the Committee on Com- ed on wars and revolutions in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, merce, Science, and Technology; the Finance Commit- and covered six U.S. presidential elections. McManus tee; and the Committee on Small Business and Entre- is a four-time winner of the National Press Club’s Ed- preneurship. After graduating from Yale in 1966, he win Hood Award for reporting on U.S. foreign policy, served in Vietnam with the U.S. Military on two tours most recently in 2004 for articles on the U.S. occu- of duty and received a Silver Star, a Bronze Star with pation of Iraq. He has also won Georgetown Univer- Combat V, and three Purple Hearts. sity’s Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting and other awards. McManus is author or coauthor of three books Michael Levi including Landslide: The Unmaking of the President United States 1984-88, named by The New York Times as one of the Michael A. Levi is the David M. most notable books of 1988. He appears frequently on Rubenstein senior fellow for en- PBS’s ‘‘Washington Week” and other television and ergy and the environment at the radio programs, and was a panelist in presidential pri- Council on Foreign Relations mary debates in 2000 and 2008. McManus joined the (CFR). He is director of the CFR Los Angeles Times in 1978 after three years as a foreign program on energy security and correspondent for United Press International. He re- climate change and was project director for the CFR- ported for the Times in Los Angeles, the Middle East, sponsored Independent Task Force on climate change. Central America, New York and Washington, where he Dr. Levi was previously a nonresident science fellow served as a State Department correspondent and White and a science and technology fellow in foreign policy House correspondent before he was named bureau studies at the Brookings Institution. Prior to that, he chief in 1996. He has also written for Foreign Policy, was director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Time, Sports Illustrated and the London Daily Express. Strategic Security Project. His interests center on the intersection of science, technology, and foreign policy, Mazahir Osman including energy, climate, and nuclear security. He is Sudan the author of the book On Nuclear Terrorism (Harvard Mazahir Osman is Secretary Gen- University Press, 2007) and coauthor with Michael eral of the International Muslim O’Hanlon of The Future of Arms Control (Brookings Women’s Union (IMWU) and an Institution Press, 2005). His 2005 monograph with Assistant Professor at Omdurman Michael D’Arcy, Untapped Potential: U.S. Science and Islamic University in Sudan. She Technology Cooperation with the Islamic World, was the has also taught at the International first comprehensive study of science and technology in University of Africa in Khartoum, Al-Ain University in the Muslim world. Dr. Levi has been invited to testify the UAE, and Qatar University. Ms. Osman received her before Congress and to present expert scientific evi- Ph.D. in English Language from Khartoum University. dence to the National Academy of Sciences. His essays have been published in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy,

2010 U.S.-ISLAMIC WORLD FORUM add e n dum W ri t i n g t h e N e x t C h a p t e r Jane Perlez Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden, and United States a member of the Health Council. Mr. Waberi will be Jane Perlez is a foreign correspon- running for a parliamentary position in this year’s elec- dent for The New York Times. She tions, to be held in the fall. joined the newspaper in 1981, af- ter working for The New York Post, Robert Wright The New York Daily News, and United States the Soho Weekly News. Ms. Perlez Robert Wright is the co-founder served as the paper’s chief diplomatic correspondent and editor in chief of bloggingheads. from 1999 to 2001, has been bureau chief for the paper tv. Wright is also a journalist and in East Africa, Central Europe and Indonesia, and has prize-winning author of best- been posted to Africa, Poland, Austria, Indonesia, and selling books, including The Moral now Pakistan. Ms. Perlez won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize Animal: Why We Are the Way We for International Reporting for her groundbreaking Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology; Nonzero: coverage of America’s deepening military and political The Logic of Human Destiny; and The Evolution of God. challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Wright previously served as a Senior Editor at The Sciences and later at The New Republic, and as an editor at The Salman Shaikh Wilson Quarterly. He is a contributing editor at The New United Kingdom Republic, Time and Slate, and has written for The Atlantic Salman Shaikh is a nonresident Monthly, The New Yorker, and The New York Times fellow with the Brookings Doha Magazine, Foreign Policy, and the op-ed pages of The New Center, focusing on mediation York Times, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times, and conflict resolution issues fac- among other publications. His books have been translated ing the Middle East and South into more than a dozen languages, and his awards include Asia. His current focus is on the the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism. involvement of radical Islamic parties in peace-making He is also currently a Senior Research Fellow at the New and state-building efforts. He is also a Special Repre- America Foundation, where he writes on a wide range of sentative to the Muslim West Facts Initiative in Eu- issues related to technology, religion, and foreign policy, rope. Until recently, he worked as the Director for particularly the war on terrorism. Policy and Research in the Office of Her Highness, Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned. Previously, he Mohsen Youssef worked with the United Nations, primarily on Middle Egypt East policy-related and peace-making issues, including Dr. Mohsen Youssef is a Senior as the Special Assistant of the UN Special Coordinator Advisor for Special Projects and for the Middle East Peace Process (2000-2003); the an advisor to the Bibliotheca Alex- Political Adviser to the UN Personal Representative andrina’s director. He is supervis- for Lebanon (2006); the Secretary-General’s Special ing the activities of the Dialogue Adviser to the Middle East (2006-2007); and the Forum and Arab Reform forum at Special Assistant on the Middle East and Asia to two the BA. Previously, he was an Education and Human consecutive heads of the Political Department at UN Resources Specialist at the World Bank and UNESCO. Headquarters (2003-2006). His professional career included expert work in the fields of media, transparency, microfinance, education Abdirisak Waberi and partnership. He conducted several research studies Sweden on community development, labor migration, youth Abdirisak Waberi is currently the employment, access to justice, good governance, and Chairman of the Islamic Associa- information and labor markets. Mohsen Youssef re- tion of Sweden and Chairman of ceived a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Media and the Muslim Political Forum. He Mass Communication from Ain Shamas University— is also serving as a member of the Egypt in addition to a Ph.D. in Labor and Human Re- board of the Moderate Party in sources from Ohio State University.

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