12 th Annual Foreign Policy Conference Ten Years After 9/11 An analysis of foreign and security policy of the last decade Beletage of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Thursday, 16 and Friday, 17, June 2011 Curriculum Vitae Geneive Abdo, The Century Foundation, Washington D.C. Geneive Abdo is the director of the Iran Program at The Century Foundation, a Washington and New York-based think tank. Her current research focuses on contemporary Iran and political Islam. She is the creator and editor of the newly launched website: www.insideIRAN.org She was formerly the Liaison Officer for the Alliance of Civilizations, a U.N. initiative under Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Before joining the United Nations, Abdo was a foreign correspondent. Her 20-year career focused on coverage of the Middle East and the Muslim world. From 1998- 2001, Abdo was the Iran correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian and a regular contributor to The Economist and the International Herald Tribune . Abdo is the author of No God But God: Egypt and the Triumph of Islam (Oxford University Press, 2000), a work that documents the social and political transformation of Egypt into an Islamic society. The book is the first to detail the leading figures and events responsible for giving moderate Islamists in Egypt enormous social and political power. Abdo is the co-author of Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First Century Iran (Henry Holt, 2003), a work that explains the theological struggle in Iran among the Shiite clerics and how this struggle has caused political stagnation. Her latest book on Muslims in America, Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11 , was published in September 2006 by Oxford University Press. This book explained the changing identity among American Muslims as they struggle to keep true to their faith while deciding to what degree they will integrate into American society. Durre Ahmed, Center for the Study of Gender and Culture, Lahore Dr. Durre S. Ahmed is Chairperson and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Gender and Culture, Lahore, Pakistan. From 1976-2009 she taught at the National College of Arts, Pakistan’s premier arts institution where she was Professor of Psychology and Communication, and Director, Graduate Program in Cultural Studies. CVs Annual Foreign Policy Conference 2011 – Ten years after 9/11 - Berlin, June 16. /17. 2011 An internationally acknowledged expert on gender and Islam, her interdisciplinary interests include the social psychology of religion, particularly Islam, and she has extensively researched women’s spirituality and issues related to gender and culture in the context of Islam and Muslim societies. She is the author of Masculinity, Rationality and Religion: A Feminist Perspective , editor and contributing author of Gendering the Spirit: Women, Religion and Postcolonial Response , and a six volume series on Women and Religion . Since 1995, she has been engaged in researching and teaching socio-psychological and cultural dimensions of Islam and Muslims in Europe at various universities, educational and public institutions. Since 2009, she has served as a juror for the annual multimillion-dollar Templeton Prize for Religion. Stefanie Babst, NATO, Brussels Dr Stefanie Babst is NATO’s Acting Assistant Secretary General of the Public Diplomacy Division in Brussels, Belgium. In this capacity, she is responsible for designing the Alliance’s public diplomacy strategies, overseeing their implementation in Member nations and partner countries, and advising the NATO Secretary General on global communications trends. She is a widely known public speaker on transatlantic security issues and author of numerous articles and blogs on NATO’s political and military agenda. Stefanie received a Master (M.A.) in Political Science, International Law and Russian Studies from the Christian- Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany. Supported by various prestigious fellowships, including from the Fulbright Commission and Friedrich Naumann Foundation, she completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at the same German University and at Harvard University, Cambridge. Before she was appointed to her current post, Stefanie served four years as NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy and three years as Head of the NATO Countries Section at NATO Headquarters. From 1993 to 1998, she was Assistant Professor for Russian and East European Studies at the German Armed Forces Staff College in Hamburg. Stefanie is a staunch supporter and member of Women in International Security Studies and is actively engaged in supporting the UNSCR 1325 on “Women, Peace and Security” across the Euro-Atlantic region and particularly in Afghanistan. Following the NATO Summit in Riga/Latvia in 2004, the Latvian President awarded her with the l’Ordre de Chevalier in recognition of her dedicated work for the Summit. In 2010, she received the Danish Defence Minister’s Communication Prize. Ahmed Badawi , Transform - Centre for Conflict Analysis, Political Development and World Society Research, Berlin Ahmed Badawi worked in Egypt and the Middle East for nine years (1990-1999) as a TV journalist, group facilitator, and development project co-ordinator. After two CVs Annual Foreign Policy Conference 2011 – Ten years after 9/11 - Berlin, June 16. /17. 2011 2 years of graduate study in the UK, he joined the German Institute for International and Security Affairs as Research Associate in the framework of the project Elite Change in the Arab World (2001-2005). In 2005-2007 he was Research Associate at the Institute of Development and Peace, University of Duisburg-Essen, where he co-directed a project funded by the United States Institute of Peace called ‘Beyond Managing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Towards a New People-to- People Agenda’. In 2007-2009, he was a Project Director (Israel/Palestine) at the Oxford Research Group, and in 2010 joined the International Crisis Group as Senior Analyst in its Middle East and North Africa Programme. He co-founded Transform: Centre for Political Analysis, Conflict Transformation, Political Development, and World Society Research in 2007 and is now its Co-Executive Director. He has an MSc in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London, and a PhD in the Political Economy of Policy Change from Humboldt University, Berlin. Patrick Bahners, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt Patrick Bahners studied at the University of Bonn, at Worcester College, and at Oxford University. Among his teachers were Klaus Hildebrand, Heinz Thomas, Josef Simon, and Jonathan Clark. In 1989, he joined the arts and reviews section of the German daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1997 to 2001, he was deputy head of the arts and reviews section and editor for non-fiction reviews. Since March 1, 2001, he is editor of the arts and reviews section. In 1998, he published an essay about Helmut Kohl and historic greatness, titled Im Mantel der Geschichte (‘Cloaked in History’). Also in 1998, he and Gerd Roellecke published the volume 1848 – Die Erfahrung der Freiheit (‘1848 – The Experience of Freedom’). In 2001, he was the editor of Preußische Stile – Ein Staat als Kunststück (‘Prussian Styles – A State as a Work of Art’). His latest work, Die Panikmacher. Die deutsche Angst vor dem Islam – Eine Streitschrift (‘The Scaremongers. The German Fear of Islam – A Polemic’), was published in February 2011. In 2003/2004, he was a fellow at Berlin’s Institute for Advanced Study. During the 2011 summer semester, he is the Dahrendorf Professor at the University of Konstanz. Annegret Bendiek, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin Dr. Annegret Bendiek is the deputy head of the research unit on EU external relations at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin. Between 2003 and 2005, she was a research assistant for international relations at Bielefeld University. She is the author of a number of monographs on the role of the EU in global politics – most recently “Globale Außenpolitik der Europäischen Union. Interregionale Beziehungen und strategische Partnerschaf- ten“ (2009, with Heinz Kramer). Her most recent publication for swp is “At the CVs Annual Foreign Policy Conference 2011 – Ten years after 9/11 - Berlin, June 16. /17. 2011 3 limits of the Rule of Law: EU-US Counter-Terrorism Cooperation” (April 2011). Reinhard Bütikofer, Member of the European Parliament, Brussels Reinhard Bütikofer is a Member of the European Parliament for the German Green Party. He is a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, the Subcommittee on Security and Defence and a substitute member of the Commi- ttee on Foreign Affairs. He sits on the Delegation for Relations with the United States as well as the Delegation for Relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He is also a substitute member of the Delegation for Relations with China. Mr. Bütikofer is a vice-chair and the treasurer of his political group, The Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament. Furthermore, he is delegation speaker for the parliamentarians from the German Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). From 2002 until 2008, Mr. Bütikofer was the national party chairman of the German Green Party. He was secretary general from 1998 until 2002. Prior to that he was the state chairman of the Green Party in the state of Baden-Württemberg. He served as a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament from 1988 until 1996. His career with the Green Party began when he was elected to the city council of Heidelberg in 1984. Mr. Bütikofer is a member of the board of the Aspen Institute Berlin, the advisory board of the American Jewish Committee’s Ramer Center in Berlin, the Europe/Transatlantic advisory board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the German-Chinese Dialogue Forum, the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), and the European Green Foundation. Rolf Clement, Deutschlandfunk, Köln Rolf Clement is a journalist.