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Adrian, Melanie Merkx, Gilbert W. Akıncı, Özgül Napoli, Grace Anderson, Lisa Noorda, Sijbolt Axworthy, Lloyd Picq, Manuela L. Becker, Jonathan Prewitt, Kenneth Buess, Matthias Provost, René Campbell, Bonnie Quinn, Robert Catoni, Karolina Rafiee, Maryam Cheung, Alvin Riseth, Inga Marie Nymo Cukier, Wendy Rumbley, Laura E. DeBrabander, Firmin Sarmento, Simone Dejonckheere, Kris Shahin, Emad de Lange, Ella Sharom, Azmi Des Rosiers, Nathalie Shattuck, John du Pont, Yannick Sheldon, Barbara Egner, Marit Stewart, Penni Epstein, Irving Stimpson, Catharine R. Gonzo, Farai Stone, Geoffrey R. Guldvog, Ragnhild Oien Tokuzlu, Lami Bertan Haberkorn, Tyrell Valentini Di Girolamo, Fabio Luigi Habib, Adam Webster, Ben Hartmann, Pamela Wilson, John K. Himbara, David Winichakul, Thongchai Jowi, James Otieno Wong-Arthichart, Rackchart Lewis, Shaundra Wordsworth, Stephen Mathur, Chandana Yenigün, Halil İbrahim Martel, Émile Ziadeh, Radwan Mégret, Frédéric

Melanie Adrian’s work critically examines the tensions which arise when a general religious right is applied in a specific context and what this application signifies for national identity and cultural norms. She looks in her writing at minority rights and their manifestation in relationship to international and national human rights norms and respect for national values. Her book, Religious Freedom at Risk: The EU, French schools, and Why the Veil was Banned, takes up these issues in France and the wider European context. Dr. Adrian holds her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology and the Study of Religion from (USA), an M.A from Essex University (U.K), an A.M from Harvard University (USA), and a B.A from the . (Canada). Dr. Adrian is currently on faculty in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at in Ottawa.

Özgül Akıncı received her BA in Psychology from Bogazici University (2006) and MA in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University (2010). Currently lives in İstanbul and working on the completion of her PhD dissertation which she pursued in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program at the University of British Columbia. Her research areas are performance studies, feminist theatre practice, labour, women's theatre in Turkey and sex work studies.

Lisa Anderson is an American political scientist and the former President of the in Cairo (AUC). A specialist on Middle Eastern and North African politics, Anderson served as the President of AUC from 2011 to 2016 and as Provost from 2008 to 2010. Prior to joining AUC, Anderson served as the James T. Shotwell Professor of at , the dean of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, the chair of the political science department and the director of the Middle East Institute. She is member emerita of the board of Human Rights Watch, where she served as co-chair of Human Rights Watch/Middle East, and serves on the Boards of the School of Public Affairs of in and the of in , as well as the International Advisory Council of the World Congress for Middle East Studies. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Lloyd Axworthy is a Canadian politician, statesman, and academic. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Following his retirement from parliament, he served as president and vice- of the University of Winnipeg from 2004 to 2014 and is currently chancellor of St. Paul's University College, an affiliated institution of the University of Waterloo. Axworthy is Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch, serves on the advisory council of USC Center on Public

Diplomacy and of Fair Vote Canada, and is an endorser of the Genocide Intervention Network and International Student Exchange, Ontario. He is the President of the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global , and serves as the Chair of the Scholars at Risk Ambassadors Council. In December 30, 2015, Axworthy was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada, the highest grade of the honour

Jonathan Becker is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Director, Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College. He is also an associate professor of political studies specializing in Russian and eastern European politics, media and politics, and education reform. Jonathan arrived at Bard in 1997. For a decade, Jonathan has overseen the academic development of Bard’s international partnerships, including those in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and the West Bank. He also played a central role in founding Bard’s Globalization and International Affairs Program in ; Bard’s debate and Model United Nations teams; and election.bard.edu, which registers students to vote, facilitates student internships with local officials, and has fought voter suppression efforts in Dutchess County. Prior to coming to Bard, he served as assistant vice president of the Central European University in Budapest and as the European director of the Civic Education Project.

Matthias Buess was born in Basel, Switzerland. After having lived in several places throughout the country, he enrolled at the for 4 years of Law studies. He then moved to Geneva in order to get his MA of Arts in Political Science. Following his graduation, he did an internship at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (conflict prevention department), worked as a teacher and translator and later joined the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (human security department). For 8 years, he has been working at the the International Relations Office of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), where he is in charge of bilateral agreements for Europe, North and South America and Africa, strategic partnerships, SAR and research projects with specific countries. He also represents the University at Conferences (NAFSA, EAIE, UNICA).

Bonnie Campbell is a professor of political economy at the Department of Political Science at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) where she is Director of the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en développement international et société (CIRDIS) and also the Director of the Research Group on Mining Activities in Africa (Groupe de recherche sur les activités minières en Afrique). She was a member of the Advisory Group named by the federal government for the National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Canadian Extractive Sector in Developing Countries (2006-2007) and from 2007 to 2011 was a member of the International Study Group of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on the revision of mining

regimes in Africa. Professor Campbell has written extensively on issues related to international development, development assistance, governance and mining and is the author of many journal articles, and author, editor or co-editor of fourteen volumes including, Regulating Mining in Africa: For whose Benefit? (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (NAI), Uppsala, Sweden, 2004) ; Mining in Africa. Regulation and Development (Pluto, London, IDRC, Ottawa and NAI, Uppsala, 2009) ; Pouvoir et régulation dans le secteur minier : leçons à partir de l’expérience canadienne (Presses de l’Université du Québec (PUQ), Quebec, 2012); and Modes of Governance and Revenue Flows in African Mining (International Political Economy Series, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, 2013). Professor Campbell is a Member of the Royal Society of Canada since 2012.

Karolina Catoni is the coordinator for the Scholars at Risk Network- Sweden Section. She has been working in various fields of internationalization of higher education for the past 13 years. She currently holds a position as International Relations Officer at the University of Gothenburg and is the project manager for Scholars at Risk within the University of Gothenburg. Karolina has a master of philosophy in political science from Lund University, Sweden.

Alvin Y.H. Cheung will be starting his JSD studies at NYU, focusing on the use of law by authoritarian regimes, in September 2016. Alvin holds degrees from NYU (LL.M. in International Legal Studies, 2014) and Cambridge (M.A. 2011), and has worked in Hong Kong as a barrister and as a lecturer in Law & Public Affairs at Hong Kong Baptist University. Alvin has written and presented extensively about constitutional developments in Hong Kong for academic, specialist, and lay audiences. His writing has appeared in publications such as the Brooklyn Journal of International Law, ChinaFile, and the South China Morning Post. He has also been quoted by media organizations such as Al-Jazeera and the Associated Press.

Wendy Cukier is currently the Vice President of Research and Innovation Ryerson University leading the effort to become Canada’s first Ashoka Changemaker Campus and a range of initiatives aimed at advancing UN Millenium Development Goals, and is a collaborator on the European Union’s Social Innovation Driving Force of Social Change (SI-DRIVE) research project which brings together researchers from 26 countries. Wendy has recently been named the incoming President and Vice Chancellor of Brock University in St. Catharines. She is a co-founder of Lifeline Syria, a citizens group committed to

advancing the private sponsorship of 1000 Syrian Refugees in the Greater Toronto Area. She also led the development of the Ryerson University Lifeline Syria Challenge which was established to mobilize the University Community to sponsor 10 families.

Firmin DeBrabander is professor of philosophy at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. He is author of the book Do Guns Make us Free? ( Press, 2015), which offers a critique of the gun rights movement in America, an analysis, and a new line of attack against the powerful gun lobby. DeBrabander has written extensively on the gun rights movement and America's gun culture, as well as on other social and political topics, in a variety of publications, including , the Baltimore Sun, , the Atlantic, the New Republic, Salon, and Common Dreams.

Kris Dejonckheere assumed the position of UNICA Secretary General in 2001. As head of the General Secretariat of an international network of 46 universities, she has a profound understanding of the processes taking place in the European Higher Education Area and extensive knowledge of higher education policy consulting, team leadership and management of European projects. Kris represents UNICA at the senior level in contacts with European Union institutions, HE organisations, networks and non-governmental organisations from and outside Europe. Together with the UNICA Board, she develops UNICA strategic and annual work plans and takes a key role in designing programmes and content of UNICA seminars and workshops. Kris holds degrees in Law and Ethics from Ghent University. She spent her early career as Law and Ethics teacher at several HEIs and assumed the role of Political Advisor for University matters to the Flemish Minister for Education.

Ella de Lange works at the Foundation for Refugee Students UAF in The Netherlands as the program coordinator Scholars at Risk. She is responsible for the daily coordination of the SAR network in the Netherlands and Belgium. Prior to that she was a career coach for higher educated refugees who want to pursue a career in the Netherlands. Before joining UAF in 2007, Ella was working as re-integration advisor with a commercial organization. She holds a Msc in Anthropology and a Bsc in .

Nathalie Des Rosiers is a well known professor of constitutional law expert. She served as the General Counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, (CCLA) a national organization that acts as a watchdog for the protection of human rights and civil liberties in Canada, from 2009 to 2013. Prior to her appointment to the CCLA, Professor Des Rosiers was Interim Vice-President - Governance for the University of Ottawa (2008-2009), Dean of the Civil Law Section, University of Ottawa (2004-2008), President of the Law Commission of Canada (2000-2004). She also served as the President of the Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities, President of the Council of Law Deans, President of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers and of the Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario. She has received many honours, including the Order of Canada in 2013 and the Order of Ontario in 2012.

Yannick du Pont is Director of SPARK, an international not-for-profit organization working on Youth Entrepreneurship and SME development in fifteen developing countries emerging from conflict in Africa, South- Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Through job creation, entrepreneurship promotion and the advocacy for an enabling business environment, SPARK aims to diminish the potential for conflict. SPARK gives special attention to youth, women and marginalised communities in its programming. Mr. Du Pont holds degrees in Political Science and Sociology and has been working with states in conflict and emerging from it since 1994. He is primarily responsible for programme development. He is also a board member of the Foundation Max van der Stoel (FMS), member of the advisory board of the Centre for Theory of Change in New York and sit on the steering committee of the Knowledge platform Security & Rule of Law.

Marit Egner has been part of the elected leadership of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) since 2008, first as chair of the Expert Community for Educational Cooperation with Developing Countries, and since 2014 as member of the Board of the EAIE. Marit Egner is a Senior Adviser in the Office for International Relations and Research Support at the University of Oslo (UiO) in Norway, where her responsibilities are within international research cooperation outside Europe. She is the UiO contact person for Scholars at Risk and member of the SAR Norway steering committee. Before joining UiO in 2007, she worked for nine years at the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT) as credential evaluator. In that position, she developed the first version of the Norwegian system for recognition of refugee qualifications, which has later on been refined by NOKUT. She holds a Masters degree in Human Geography.

Irving Epstein is the Ben and Susan Rhodes Professor of Peace and Social Justice at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he directs the Center for Human Rights and Social Justice and serves as Chair of the Department of Educational Studies. He has strong interests in comparative and international education, globalization, youth studies and children’s rights issues, having taught in Los Angeles, Australia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He has published four books and over fifty journal articles and book chapters, including the six volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children’s Issues Worldwide, for which he served as general editor, and most recently, The Whole World is Texting: Youth Protest in the Information Age (Pittsburgh Studies in Comparative and International Education, Rotterdam: Sense Publishing, 2015). He is most proud of his affiliation with the Scholars at Risk Network, with which he has been involved since its inception. He currently serves on the SAR Advisory Board, where he chairs its Program and Policy Committee.

Farai Gonzo is a journalist and academic, currently serving as a fellow at Massey College while pursuing a PhD at OISE, . She holds a MS in International Relations and a BS in Sociology from the University of Zimbabwe, and a Diploma in Journalism. She has more than 10 years of experience in radio, television, print and online media. She has received numerous awards for her radio and television journalism, which focused primarily on health, human rights, and gender equality issues. Farai was also a part- time lecturer at the Zimbabwe Open University in the Media Department. She has worked with a variety of NGOs, including as the volunteer On-Line Editor of Africa Files, and served as a media consultant for a many organizations, including UNIFEM, UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, Plan International, and Save The Children (UK).

Ragnhild Oien Guldvog, is Chair of the Norwegian Section of Scholars at Risk. SAR Norway has 18 members; all the Norwegian universities and a number of university colleges, as well as The Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions (UHR) and Norwegian Students’; and Academics’; International Assistance Fund (SAIH). She is Senior Adviser at the Department of Research and Development, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences.

Tyrell Haberkorn is a Fellow in Political and Social Change at the Australian National University. She writes about state violence, human rights, and dissident cultural politics in Thailand. She is the author of Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law, and Violence in Northern Thailand (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), Voices of a Free Media: The First Ten Years of Prachatai (Bangkok: FCEM and Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2014), and one of the editors of a Reflections of the Past: Selected Poems from Sattrisan Magazine, 1970-1976 (Silkworm Books, 2013). She has just completed a book manuscript about the history of impunity for state violence since the end of the absolute monarchy in Thailand. In addition to her academic work, she is a frequent contributor of translations from Thai to English of writing by political prisoners, cultural commentary, and poetry to the online newspaper Prachatai.

Adam Habib is the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand, and has served in this position as from the 1st of June 2013. He is an academic, an activist, an administrator, and a renowned political media commentator and columnist. A Professor of Political Science, Habib has more than 30 years of academic, research, institutional and administration expertise. His experience spans five universities and multiple local and international institutions, boards and task teams. His professional involvement in institutions has always been defined by three distinct engagements: the contest of ideas; their translation into actionable initiatives; and the building of institutions. Transformation, democracy and development are fundamental themes of Habib’s research. He is well-published and renowned as a key leader in higher education and political studies in South Africa and around the world.

Pamela Hartmann spent eight years in international research and university-level teaching at the University of Cologne’s (UoC) Institute of Geography (Germany) before joining UoC's International Office in August 2015. As Head 'International Networks and Research Cooperation’ within the Department 'International Science', she works with faculty and university leaders to enable the assignment of threatened scholars. So far she has facilitated the placement of four refugee scholars at UoC. Her other missions include designing a study program for international students and the development of a human resources strategy for researchers. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from UoC where she continues her academic work (part-time) as a lecturer, speaker, author and research consultant in her preferred thematic fields such as ‘Asian megacities’, ‘working conditions of Chinese migrant workers’ and ‘socioeconomic development in Europe’.

David Himbara is an educator and development strategist as well as an author. He has worked in several countries, including Canada where he studied, the United States, South Africa, Kenya, and Rwanda. He is currently a scholar at risk based at Centennial College in Toronto, Canada. One of his major accomplishments was coaching governments in eastern and southern Africa in evidence-based policy making as part of Knowledge Management Africa, which was supported by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). He taught and performed strategic work at Wits with periodic sabbaticals from 1994 until 2013 when he returned to Canada. Himbara holds a PhD in political economy from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. He is widely published in a number of major journals and magazines and online. He is also the author of Kenyan Capitalists, the State, and Development.

James Otieno Jowi teaches Comparative and International Education in the School of Education, Moi University, Kenya. He is also currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente, Netherlands, and was a student leader at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Moi University, Kenya. Jowi is the founding executive director and secretary-general of the African Network for International-isation of Education (ANIE). He has published on the internationalisation of higher education in Africa, as well as on matters of student leadership, management and governance in higher education.

Shaundra Lewis is an Associate Professor of Law at Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern in Houston, Texas, who is an expert on campus carry firearm legislation. She has published multiple articles on mass shootings and firearm laws, including: Bullets and Books by Legislative Fiat: Why Academic Freedom and Permit Higher Education Institutions to Say No to Guns. Recently, she presented her research at a symposium on Texas Gun Law hosted by the Thurgood Marshall Law Review, and her co-authored article stemming from that presentation, The Fatal Flaws in Texas’s Campus Carry Laws, will be published this summer. She served on Texas Southern University’s Campus Carry Committee, which was responsible for advising the University’s President on proposed gun-free zones and reasonable regulations for the safe carrying of concealed weapons on campus.

Chandana Mathur teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She was educated at the University of Delhi and the New School for Social Research, New York. Her research is primarily in the areas of anthropological political economy and ecological anthropology, and her published work has appeared in international journals such as the American Anthropologist, Critique of Anthropology, Solar Energy, etc. She has jointly edited, with historian Deana Heath, a volume of essays titled Communalism and Globalization in South Asia and Its Diaspora (Routledge: 2011). She is currently the Chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations, a network of over fifty national, regional and international anthropological associations from all continents. She is a trustee of the Bhopal Medical Appeal, a UK-based charity focused on the survivors of the 1984 gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide factory in the city of Bhopal, India

Émile Martel is a poet and literary translator. Born in 1941 in Amos, Québec, he holds a doctorado en filofofía y letras from the University of Salamanca, Spain. As a diplomat he was Minister (Cultural Affairs) at the Canadian Embassy in France from 1994 to 1998. He had previously served in San José (Costa Rica), Madrid and Mexico. He has published 17 books of poetry, and, in collaboration with Nicole Perron-Martel, 30 translations from Spanish and 16 from English to French. He received the 1995 Governor General’s award for poetry in French and the Jaime- Sabines – Gatien Lapointe prize in 2010. He is a member and president of the Académie des lettres du Québec since 2012. He was president of the Centre québécois du P.E.N. international from 1999 to 2016 and hosted the 81st International PEN Congress in Quebec City in October, 2015. He lives in Montréal and Saint-Jean-Port-Joli.

Frédéric Mégret is an Associate Professor of Law. In March 2015, he was made a William Dawson Scholar by McGill University. He held the Canada Research Chair on the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism from 2006 to 2015. Before joining the University of McGill, Professor Mégret was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto, a Boulton fellow at McGill University and a research associate at the European University Institute in Florence. Professor Mégret publishes on international law, human rights, the laws of war, and international criminal justice.

Gilbert W. Merkx was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela. He received his A.B. from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Yale University. He has taught on the faculties of Yale University, Göteborgs Universität and the University of New Mexico. His research interests include sociology of religion, social dynamics, globalization, international migration, international education policy and social theory.

Grace Napoli grew up in Port Jefferson New York and is currently pursuing a Bachelors degree in Legal Studies and Creative Writing at Roger Williams University. For the summer she is interning in Washington DC as a legislative intern for Senator Paul Strauss. Her biggest passion is using the written word as an advocacy tool for anyone in need.

Sijbolt Noorda is President of Magna Charta Observatory (Bologna), president emeritus of the University of Amsterdam, past president of the Association of Dutch Research Universities and a former board member of the European University Association. He has served or serves on various executive and non-executive boards in the domains of Higher Education & Research, Public Radio & Television, Performing Arts & Moving Image, Health Service, High Performance Computing, Not-for- profit Publishing and Social Services. At present he chairs the Academic Cooperation Association (Brussels), is an expert in the IEP (Institutional Evaluation Program) of EUA and is an advisor to various Austrian, Dutch, German, Rumenian and Turkish universities. His academic field is cultural history of religions in Europe.

Manuela L. Picq is an activist academic and a journalist. She has been a professor of International Relations at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), Ecuador, since 2004 and has held research positions at Freie Universität in Berlin (2015), the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2013), Amherst College (2011), and the Woodrow Wilson Center (2005). Her work explores Indigeneity, sexuality, and extractivism in Latin America and international relations. She has published in scholarly journals like Latin American Politics and Society, Cahiers du Genre and International Political Science Review and is co- editor of Sexualities in World Politics (with Markus Thiel, Routledge 2015) and Queering Narratives of Modernity (with Maria Amelia Viteri, Peter Lang 2016). She contributes opinions to media venues worldwide including , Folha de São Paulo. She is currently writing for International Cry, an Indigenous news platform, with the support of the Program Defenders At Risk at the European Parliament.

Kenneth Prewitt Kenneth Prewitt is the Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs and the Vice-President for Global Centers. He taught Political Science at the University of Chicago from 1965-1982, and for shorter stints was on the faculty of , Washington University, the University of Nairobi, Makerere University and the Graduate Faculty at the New School University (where he was also Dean). Prewitt's professional career also includes: Director of the United States

Census Bureau, Director of the National Opinion Research Center, President of the Social Science Research Council, and Senior Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Russell-Sage Foundation, and member of other professional associations, including the Council on Foreign Relations.

René Provost teaches and conducts research in public international law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, legal theory and legal anthropology. He is particularly interested in human rights, international criminal law, the law of armed conflict, and the intersection of law and culture. In September 2015, he was awarded a fellowship by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation for his research project that aims to explore the possibility of convincing armed, non- state groups to apply justice by respecting minimum standards of international humanitarian law in conflict zones. Professor Provost was the founding Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism from 2005 to 2010.Professor Provost is currently the principal investigator for the Centaur Jurisprudence Project, an interdisciplinary research team in law and anthropology that explores the ways in which the concept of culture is transformed by its consideration through different legal processes.

Robert Quinn is the founding Executive Director of the Scholars at Risk Network, based at . Mr. Quinn currently serves on the Council of the Magna Charta Observatory, based in Bologna, Italy; the Scientific Committee of Pax Academica, an online journal on academic freedom in Africa published by CODESRIA from Dakar, Senegal; and as a fellow with the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program in Washington, DC. He received an A.B. cum laude from Princeton in 1988, a J.D. cum laude from Fordham in 1994, and an honorary from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2010.

Maryam Rafiee is a cultural heritage specialist who has been advocating for her father’s freedom since June 2015. Maryam’s father, Hossein Rafiee, is a retired professor of chemistry at University of Tehran and a political activist. He was among the few scholars in Iran who publicly supported president Rouhani’s diplomatic approach to resolving the nuclear issue. Arrested in 2015 because of his writings and speeches, Prof. Rafiee was accused of “Membership in an illegal group” and “distributing propaganda against the regime” and was sentenced to six years in prison. After his arrest, Maryam became her father’s voice, writing letters to Iranian authorities, raising awareness of his situation with human rights organizations, and writing articles and participating in interviews about her father’s situation.

Her activities resulted in the writing of many appeal letters and hundreds of petition signatures demanding his release.

Inga Marie Nymo Riseth is political vice president and incoming president of the Norwegian Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH). SAIH is the solidarity organisation of students and academics in Norway. The organisation focuses on higher education in development cooperation, as well as information work and political advocacy in Norway. SAIH was the initiator of Students at Risk, a pilot program that gives students, who has been politically persecuted and deprived of their right to study because of their political engagement for promoting democracy and human rights, the opportunity to finish their education in Norway. In addition to many years in SAIH, Riseth also has experience from other organizations. In 2015, she was a youth delegate included in Norway’s official delegation to the UN General Assembly. She holds a bachelor degree in International Environment and Development Studies, and has completed one year of her Master Degree in Human Rights at the University of Oslo.

Laura E. Rumbley is Associate Director of the Boston College Center for International Higher Education (CIHE). She was previously Deputy Director of the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA), a Brussels- based think tank focused on issues of internationalization and innovation in European higher education. Laura has (co)authored and (co)edited a number of publications, including the foundational document for the 2009 UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education, Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution; a series of International Briefs for Higher Education Leaders (co-published by CIHE and the American Council on Education); and numerous books, chapters, and reports focused primarily on different aspects of the internationalization of higher education and issues affecting the academic profession in comparative perspective. A former US Foreign Service Officer, Laura currently serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Studies in International Education and is chair of the Publications Committee for the European Association for International Education.

Simone Sarmento is a Professor at the Department of Modern Languages at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil. She was the vice president of Language without Borders from the Ministry of Education (Brazil) in 2014-2015. Simone holds a Master’s in Applied Linguistics from Lancaster University/UK and a PhD in Language Studies from UFRGS/Brazil. Her main research interests lie in the areas of Internationalization and Language . She is especially interested in how additional language proficiency issues affect the internationalization of higher education. Currently, she is a visiting scholar at the Department of Educational Studies at UBC. She is

member of the FAUBAI's Working Group on Foreign Languages.

Emad Shahin Emad Shahin is Visiting Professor at the School of Foreign Service at , and the editor-in-chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics. He is professor of public policy, The American University in Cairo (on leave) and has taught in leading universities in the United States including Harvard and Notre Dame. His research interests include Comparative Politics, Democracy and Political Reform in Muslim societies, Islam and Politics, and Political Economy of the Middle East, subjects on which he has authored, co-authored and co-edited six books and more than 50 scholarly publications.

Azmi Sharom, LLB (Sheffield), LLM (Nottingham), PhD (SOAS), is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya where he has taught since 1990. He currently teaches Private International law, International Environmental Law and Human Rights Law. He is Head of the Human Rights Research Group in his faculty and President of the Academic Staff Union in his University. He is Chief Editor of the Human Rights in Southeast Asia Series by the Southeast Asian Human Rights Scholars Network based in Bangkok. Azmi writes regular newspaper columns and a compilation of his articles was published last year in a book entitled Brave New World: Greatest Hits. In September 2014 he was charged with sedition for giving an opinion on a constitutional crisis in the state of Selangor to a newspaper. The charge was dropped in February this year. He would much rather spend his time watching football.

John Shattuck is president and rector of Central European University and professor of legal studies and international affairs. From 2001 to 2009, Shattuck served as the chief executive officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. He was also senior fellow and lecturer on human rights and international relations at the College of Citizenship and Public Service at . Shattuck served as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic (1998–2000) and assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor (1993–1998). Previously, he was vice president for government, community, and public affairs at Harvard University. Shattuck’s career began at the American Civil Liberties Union, where he was executive director of the Washington office and national staff counsel from 1971 to 1984. He is the author of Freedom on Fire, a study of the U.S. response to genocide in the 1990s; Rights of Privacy; and many articles on international security and human rights.

Barbara Sheldon is Head of Division for Strategic Planning at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) and is responsible for the development and implementation of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative for supporting threatened scholars. She has worked in the field of research management for nearly twenty years, fifteen of them at AvH in various positions. Her responsibilities have included the development of a program for implementing “Welcome Centres for internationally mobile researchers” at universities in Germany, creating a German network of Welcome Centres and linking it to a European network of similar institutions (EURAXESS), as well as a program for promoting “research alumni relations”. Previously Dr. Sheldon worked as a fundraiser for the German Academic Exchange Service and as personal assistant to the President of the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Sheldon holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Erlangen, Germany.

Penni Stewart served as President of the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) from 2008-2011. She is currently a member of CAUT’s Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee and a member of the Board of the Harry Crowe Foundation, a foundation established to carry out education and research on the contemporary role of post-secondary education. She is an Associate Professor in the department of sociology at York University where her current research interests include academic freedom, respectful workplaces and equity and inclusivity. Penni has served in multiple capacities at her academic staff association including President. She is currently a Chief Steward.

Catharine R. Stimpson is University Professor and dean (emerita) of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University, and Chair of the Scholars at Risk Board. From 1986 to 1992, Stimpson was dean of the graduate school and vice provost for graduate education at Rutgers University. While on leave from Rutgers from 1994 to 1997, she directed the Fellows Program at the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago. She has chaired the New York State Council for the Humanities, the National Council for Research on Women, and the Ms. Magazine Board of Scholars. Stimpson has also served as president of the Modern Language Association and the Association of Graduate Schools and is a member of the board of directors of several educational and cultural organizations. Her writings include a novel and over 150 monographs, essays, stories, and reviews. Stimpson was educated at Bryn Mawr College, Cambridge University, and Columbia University. She has also won Fulbright and Rockefeller Humanities Fellowships.

Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Stone joined the faculty in 1973 after serving as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. He later served as Dean of the Law School from 1987 to 1994 and Provost of the University of Chicago from 1994 to 2002. Stone is the author of many books on constitutional law, including Speaking Out: Reflections of Law, Liberty and Justice (2010); Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (2007); War and Liberty: An American Dilemma (2007); Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime (2004); and Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era (Chicago 2002). Stone is currently chief editor of a 20-volume series, Inalienable Rights, which is being published by the . He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the America Law Institute, the National Advisory Council of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. Stone's next book, Sex and the Constitution, will be published next spring.

Lami Bertan Tokuzlu was educated at the Istanbul University (Law School), Lund University (Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Sweden) and Marmara University (European Union Institute). After receiving his Ph. D. degree with his work titled “Non- Refoulement Principle in a Changing European Legal Environment: With Particular Emphasis on Turkey, a Candidate Country at the External Borders of the EU” Tokuzlu pursued his academic career as a Jean Monnet Post-doctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in Florence, Italy. He returned to Turkey in 2009 and was appointed as an assistant professor at Istanbul Bilgi University, Law School. Tokuzlu also gave lectures at the Viadrina University (Frankfurt (Oder)) in Germany, holding the Aziz Nesin Chair Professor position and conducted research at the Bucerious Law School in Hamburg, as a visiting researcher. His fields of expertise comprise International Protection Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights Law and European Union Law.

Fabio Luigi Valentini Di Girolamo, is a student of the 8th Semester of Economics at the Andres Bello Catholic University (UCAB), Venezuela. He is a Student Representative and college counselor at the Andres Bello Catholic University (UCAB), Venezuela; elected by the students for the period 2015-2016. He is a leader of the Venezuelan Student Movement involved in the 2014 pacific demonstrations against Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, which called for freedom of expression, academic freedom, student demands, security, the recovery of democratic values and Human Rights. He is also one of the founders of the local Student Movement in his hometown, “Los Salias,” and helps other students to formalize their student movements in universities, cities and other regions.

Ben Webster is the Founder and Director of the Jamiya Project, Ben worked for International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Jordan on the Syria refugee crisis until 2015. He is part of the OuiShare UK network and has previously led workshops on using peer-to-peer technology in humanitarian aid, as well as being a researcher on peer-to- peer platforms for the UK Government. Prior to IOM, Ben at the UK Foreign Office, UK Trade & Investment, and Transparency International.

John K. Wilson is the author of seven books, including Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest, The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education, Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies, and The Most Dangerous Man in America: Rush Limbaugh's Assault on Reason. He is the co-editor of the AAUP's AcademeBlog.org and the editor of Illinois Academe for the Illinois AAUP. He has a Ph.D. in education from Illinois State University, and is the co-organizer of the Chicago Book Expo and the Evanston Literary Festival. His eighth book, a critique of Donald Trump, will be published in the fall of 2016 by OR Books.

Thongchai Winichakul is Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His book, Siam Mapped (1994) was awarded the Harry J Benda Prize from the Association for Asian Studies (AAS, USA) and the Grand Prize from the Asian Affairs Research Council (Japan). He was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Award in 1994 and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. He was elected the President of the AAS in 2013/14. His research interests are in cultural and intellectual history of Siam including nationalism, modern geography, cartography, and historical knowledge. He currently works on a book on the memories of the 1976 massacre in Bangkok. He also publishes three books and several articles in Thai, including many political and social commentaries. He was a political prisoner for two years during 1976-78 when he was a student in Thailand.

Rackchart Wong-Arthichart (Oh), is a graduate student in political science, Thammasat University. He is also a writer, translator, and political activist based in Bangkok. His former roles include Vice president of Thammasat Student Union, Deputy secretary general of Student Federation of Thailand. Currently he is an active member of New Democracy Movement(NDM) and Citizen Resistant, two political activist groups that are campaigning against the Junta government. NDM is a youth political activist group that try to bridge youth movement together. Their aim is to call for a democracy society and end Thai authoritarian regime. While Citizen Resistant is a group consisting of academics,

artists, and various people aiming to encourage people to express their political ideas through satirical campaigns.

Stephen Wordsworth Stephen Wordsworth has been Executive Director of the Council for At-Risk Academics since 2012. He is also Deputy Chair of the New York-based Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA), a grouping of UN agencies and NGOs which works to protect schoolchildren, university students and teachers from conflict, instability and repression; and a Trustee of the British and Foreign School Society (BFSS), a UK educational charity which funds projects worldwide. Before joining Cara, Stephen was a career member of the UK Diplomatic Service, where his last two posts were as Deputy Head of Mission in Moscow (2003-2005) and British Ambassador in Belgrade (2006-2010).

Halil İbrahim Yenigün is from Istanbul, Turkey. He received his doctorate in 2013 from the University of Virginia’s political theory program. Until January 2016, he taught as an assistant professor at Istanbul Commerce University. He was terminated in February 2016 due to his signature on Academics for Peace's petition. Both as a scholar and public intellectual, Yenigün is involved in several NGOs that work on human rights, social justice issues and free circulation of ideas. He has served as a founding member at Istanbul Think-House (Istanbul Düşünce Evi- IDE), and he is currently the deputy secretary general at MAZLUMDER Human Rights Association.

Radwan Ziadeh is a senior analyst at the Arab Center – Washington D.C. Also he is the founder and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria (www.dchrs.org) and co-founder and executive director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C (www.scpss.org). He is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, and Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) in Washington D.C. He wrote more than twenty books in English and Arabic, his most recent book is Syria’s Role in a Changing Middle East: The Syrian-Israeli Peace Talks (2016) from I.B.Tauris. His op-ed appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New Republic and New Yorker; and he is a frequent political commentator on several U.S., European, and Middle Eastern media outlets , and he writes a bi-monthly op-ed for the leading Arab daily, Al-Hayat.