Participant Biographies

Haki Abazi is the program director for the Western Balkans portion of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Pivotal Place program. Prior to joining the RBF in 2007, Mr. Abazi served as director of the Kosovo office for the East West Management Institute, Inc. He developed and implemented a wide range of programs addressing critical issues in Kosovo during the transition period. He has also played an important role in the development of civil society in the region. Mr. Abazi has over nine years of experience in designing and managing development programs in Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Afghanistan, and Indonesia. These programs were designed to support overall developments and increase the level of participation of citizens in decision‐making processes. Mr. Abazi has in‐depth knowledge and work experience related to the Balkan's civil society community and the geopolitics of the region. He is chairing the steering committee for the Grantmakers East Forum and sits on the boards of several Institute for international organizations. Mr. Abazi holds a degree in computer sciences and State management, and was educated in Kosovo and the . Masood Ahmed is Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department Effectiveness at the IMF. He obtained his graduate and post-graduate degrees in Economics from the London School of Economics, where he also served on the economics faculty. Previously, Mr. Ahmed was the Director of the External Partners’ Relations Department in the IMF and served as Director General for Policy and International Development at the UK Government's Department for Consortium International Development (DFID). Between 2000-03, Mr. Ahmed was Deputy Meeting Director in the IMF's Policy Development and Review Department. Previously, Mr. Ahmed held a number of positions in the World Bank, working on country programs and projects and international economic policy relating to debt, aid New York City effectiveness, trade and global economic prospects. As Vice President for 6-7 June 2016 Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Mr. Ahmed was the senior World Bank manager responsible for the development of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper approach as well as the HIPC Debt Initiative. He also served concurrently for a year as Acting Vice President for Private Sector Development and Infrastructure.

Vincent Ashcroft graduated in Economics from the Australian National University in 2000 and then joined the Australian Department of Finance and Administration where he worked in budget coordination. After a short secondment to the Ministry of Finance in Timor-Leste in 2002-03, Vincent joined the Australian Treasury where he held various roles in budget policy including managing the Australian Government’s debt portfolio and the establishment of the sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund. Vincent was the Australian Treasury’s Senior Representative for South East Asia based in Jakarta from 2006 to 2008. Vincent joined AusAID in 2008 as the Country Economist for Indonesia based in Jakarta and upon returning to Canberra in 2010 took up global responsibility for AusAID’s programs in Economics, Rural Development and Infrastructure. He was then head of Australian Aid in Timor-Leste from 2011 to 2014. Having left the public service in early 2015, Vincent is currently working with the Government of Afghanistan as an adviser to the Minister for Finance on the government’s public financial management reform program.

Dr. Juan Carlos Botero is the World Justice Project’s Executive Director and former Director of the Rule of Law Index, where he has led the development of the Index project and co-authored the report since its inception in 2008. Dr. Botero’s previous experience as a researcher at Yale University and consultant for the World Bank focused on developing cross-country indicators and designing several indices of the World Bank’s Doing Business report. Previous experiences include service as the Director of the Colombian Government Trade Bureau in Washington D.C., Chief International Legal Counsel of the Colombian Ministry of Commerce, Deputy-Chief Negotiator of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, member of the Advisory Board of the Colombian Antitrust and Consumer Protection Agency, and Judicial Clerk at the Colombian Constitutional Court. He has been a professor or guest lecturer in several countries, and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Justice. His academic publications focus on the areas of rule of law, access to justice, and labor regulation. A national of Colombia, Dr. Botero holds a law degree from Universidad de los Andes, a Master of Laws (LLM) from , and a Doctorate of Juridical Science (SJD) from Georgetown University.

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Marc Alain Boucicault has worked in international development, operations management and macroeconomic research on Haiti at the World Bank and Inter- American Development Bank. He is a co-founder and the current Director of Support to Youth Initiatives of Groupe ECHO Haiti, an organization valorizing the potential of young adults in development in Haiti through which he lead several innovative projects 2016 including ELAN Haiti, a platform that brings together a community of young leaders and Partners’ entrepreneurs from Haiti, its diaspora and the world focused on taking joint actions in Consortium Haiti. He is also the chief external relations officer at HFund, a closed-ended micro- Meeting venture capital firm based in Haiti offering new modern and tailored financial instruments that bring capital to innovative businesses and contribute to the emergence of a new category of entrepreneurs in Haiti. Marc Alain is a Fulbright scholar. He holds a M.A in 6-7 June Financial Economic Policy from American University and a B.A in Applied Quantitative Economics from CTPEA. NYC Ambassador Reuben E. Brigety II is the dean of the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Previously, he was appointed Representative of the United States of America to the African Union and Permanent Representative of the United States to the UN Economic Commission for Africa. Ambassador Brigety was also Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of African Affairs and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. Ambassador Brigety previously served as Director of the Sustainable Security Program at the Center for American Progress and as a Special Assistant in the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance at USAID. Prior to his work in the policy arena, Ambassador Brigety was an assistant professor of government and politics at George Mason University and American University and served as an active duty U.S. naval and holds an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Henk-Jan Brinkman has been chief of the Policy, Planning and Application Branch of the Peacebuilding Support Office in the UN Secretariat since 2010. He is a past co- chair of the Working Group on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding indicators of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding and has been a member or (co-chair) of several working groups and advisory boards. Between 2006 and 2010, he was, subsequently, chief Economic Analysis and chief Food Security Policy and Markets in the Office of the Executive Director of the World Food Programme in Rome, and Senior Adviser for Economic Policy in the World Food Programme, in New York. From 2001 to 2006 he was a Senior Economic Affairs Officer in the Executive Office of the Secretary- General of the UN, where he advised Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette on economic, social and environmental issues. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in economics from the University of Groningen and a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research. He is the lead author of WFP’s World Hunger Series – Hunger and Markets (Earthscan, 2009) and the author of Explaining Prices in the Global Economy: A Post-Keynesian Model.

Betsy Campbell is the vice president for programs at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Her responsibilities include oversight of Democratic Practice, Peacebuilding, and Sustainable Development, Southern China, Western Balkans and New York City, and a special initiative to support a democratic transition in Egypt, as well as the grants management and communications departments. Ms. Campbell began her career at Save the Children working with small enterprise and credit programs in Latin America and Africa. She served for 12 years at the Ford Foundation, as a program officer in the Rural Poverty and Resources program, as director of Community and Resource Development, and as senior director and deputy to the vice president for Asset Building and Community Development. She currently chairs the board of Winrock International and serves on the boards of the European Foundation Centre and the Center for Rural Strategies. Ms. Campbell holds a MA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

Judy Cheng-Hopkins retired in 2014 after a 36-year career at the UN and is now an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. At the UN, she served as Assistant SecretaryGeneral for Peacebuilding Support, Assistant High Commissioner for Refugees, and director of the World Food Programme’s Office in New York, as well as WFP’s Asia and Europe director. She served UNDP in Africa for 10 years, in Zambia and Kenya. She was also UNDP's Deputy Assistant Administrator for Africa. Ms. Cheng-Hopkins received a Master’s of International Affairs degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs as well as diplomas and certificates from Universitè d’Haute Bretagne in Rennes, France and the Harvard Institute for International Development. In 2011, Forbes named her one of the 10 most prominent women in the UN and in 2013, she received Columbia University's (SIPA) Global Leadership Award. She served as Chair of the Conflict Prevention Council of the World Economic Forum in 2012.

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Bill Costello commenced as Minister Counsellor for the International Development Branch at the Australian Embassy in Washington, DC in January 2016. Within the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Bill was previously in charge of the Health and Water Branch in Canberra, Australia, and has also lead DFAT’s Ebola 2016 Taskforce. Prior to this he worked as Assistant Secretary of the Stabilisation and Recovery Branch, in the Humanitarian Division. Bill has been a development Partners’ professional for 28 years, and a member of AusAID's and DFAT’s Senior Executive from Consortium 2008. Recent roles include Assistant Director General, Pacific (2010-2012) and Minister Meeting Counsellor/Head of AusAID in Papua New Guinea (PNG - 2008-2010). Bill has completed overseas assignments in PNG (1992-95 and 2006-10) and Cambodia 6-7 June (1997-2000) and a secondment to the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines (2003-2006). Bill holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Australian National University and a NYC Bachelor of Science (Applied Geography) from the (then) Canberra College of Advanced Education.

Dr. Abdallah Al Dardari is deputy executive secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia after serving as chief economist and director of its Economic Development and Globalization Division. Under his leadership, the division supported Arab efforts to deepen regional economic integration and assisted member states in designing policies for inclusive growth, job creation, and human security. Dr. Al Dardari also served as Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Planning, and Chairman of the State Planning Commission. Dr. Al Dardari, a national of Syria, holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Richmond – American International University of London in 1985, a Master of Arts Degree in International Economic Relations from the University of Southern California in 1988. He undertook Post Graduate Studies towards a Master of Philosophy in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science between 1988 and 1990.

Dr. Shanta Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Middle East and North Africa Region. Since joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group, and the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network, the South Asia Region and Africa Region. He was the director of the World Development Report 2004, Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author or co-author of over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan’s research covers public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing countries. Born in Sri Lanka, Mr. Devarajan received his B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Obiageli “Oby” Ezekweseli is a leading chartered accountant who co-founded Transparency International. She is also one of the co-conveners of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign to find the 300 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in 2014. She has held several keys positions within the Nigerian government including senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on Budget Monitoring and Price Intelligence, Minister of Minerals Resources and Minister for Education. A former Vice-President of the World Bank’s Africa Region, Ms Ezekweseli was recently a Senior Advisor on Africa Economic Development Policy at the Open Society Foundation. She is now Senior Economic Adviser to a number of presidents in Africa. She has a Masters in International Law and Diplomacy from the University of Lagos, and a Master of Public Policy and Administration degree from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Ms. Ezekweseli serves on a number of global boards, including two schools of public policy in Tel Aviv University, Central European University School Of Public Policy, Budapest, and a center for global leadership at Tufts University.

Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman is the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs. As Under-Secretary-General and head of the Department of Political Affairs, Mr. Feltman advises the Secretary-General on peace and security issues globally, while overseeing "good offices" initiatives and field-based political missions carrying out peacemaking, preventive diplomacy and peace-building activities in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Central and Southeast Asia. He also oversees the United Nations electoral assistance provided to dozens of its member states each year. Mr. Feltman served for nearly thirty years in the United States Foreign Service, focused especially on the Middle East and North Africa. His last position was as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, from which he retired at the rank of Career Minister. Mr. Feltman served previously as United States Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon, and held earlier diplomatic postings in Baghdad, Erbil, Jerusalem, Tunis, Tel Aviv, Budapest, and Port-au-Prince. He received his Bachelor’s degree in History and Fine Arts from Ball State University and his Master's degree in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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Dr. Scott Guggenheim is a development anthropologist who tries to turn social theory into practical applications that can help the rural poor. Most of his professional career has been with the World Bank. He initially worked on developing their resettlement policy guidelines and improving how it was practiced. Since 1994 his main area of focus has been on different areas of community development. Mr. Guggenheim was 2016 the team leader for what became very large community programs in both Indonesia Partners’ and Afghanistan. His group also managed an interesting, multidisciplinary program of Consortium applied social research on topics that ranged from understanding corruption to Meeting structured evaluations of community leadership. Scott’s general goal in this long-term program is to find ways to give more voice to poor communities in the development process. His specialties include community development, fragile states, project design, 6-7 June team management and applied social research. NYC

Dr. Kerry Healey is President of , a worldwide leader in entrepreneurial education. Serving with distinction as the 70th lieutenant governor of from 2003 to 2007, Dr. Healey worked to lead, enact, and implement a wide range of policy and legislative initiatives for the Romney-Healey administration. She co-chaired the state’s Regional Competitiveness Councils, which focused on coordinating economic development and increasing business competitiveness throughout Massachusetts and was a key member of the leadership team that crafted Massachusetts’ first-in-the-nation health care-reform legislation. From 2009-2013 she was Founding President of the Friends of the Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan, a non-profit promoting rule of law by educating young Afghan lawyers and judges and, in 2010, created and hosted “Shining City,” a television series showcasing New England’s cutting-edge scientific and social innovation. She currently serves as a trustee of the American University of Afghanistan and is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Advisory Committee on Justice. Dr. Healey holds an AB from Harvard College, and a PhD in political science and law from Trinity College, Dublin.

Stephen Heintz is President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Before joining the RBF, he held top leadership positions in both the nonprofit and public sectors. Most recently, he was founding president of Dēmos, a public policy research and advocacy organization working to enhance the vitality of American democracy and promote more broadly shared prosperity. Prior to founding Dēmos, he served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of the EastWest Institute (EWI), where he worked on issues of economic reform, civil society development, and international security. Based in Prague, Czech Republic, from 1990 through 1997, he worked extensively throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States. He devoted the first 15 years of his career to politics and government service in Connecticut, where he served as commissioner of economic development and commissioner of social welfare. In 1988, he helped draft and secure passage by Congress of "The Family Support Act," the first major effort to reform the nation's welfare system. He currently serves on the boards of the EastWest Institute, the Rockefeller Archive Center, and The American Prospect. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2014 the Nonprofit Times named him one of the 50 most influential leaders of the nonprofit sector. In 2013, President Bronisław Komorowski of Poland granted him the Officer’s Cross - Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his contributions to building civil society and democratic institutions in Poland.

Saša Hezir is an analyst at the Institute for State Effectiveness, where she conducts research across the full range of ISE’s programs, but focuses on issues related to Afghanistan, West Asia and North Africa, and the multilateral system. Most recently, she served as the manager of strategic plans and partnerships at the Institute for the Study of War, where she created new analytical products and initiatives for the organization to reach broader audiences. While at the Institute for the Study of War, she also conducted research on Afghanistan’s security situation. Previously, she served at the United Kingdom Permanent Mission to the United Nations, where she worked on a variety of development and peace-building issues and focused on peace-building in the Central African Republic. She has also served at the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office. She holds a M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University with a focus on international security and a B.A. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Elisabeth Kvitashvili is a career Senior Foreign Service Officer who was USAID Mission Director for Sri Lanka and the Maldives before retiring with 36 years of service in 2015. She also served as Deputy Assistant Administrator in USAID’s Bureau for Middle East with oversight of the Iraq, Jordan and Yemen portfolios, Humanitarian Affairs Counselor to the U.S. Ambassador, USUN-Rome and Mission Director in Russia and Deputy 2016 Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance. Partners’ She served in Afghanistan, 2002-2003, where she led USAID’s reconstruction program Consortium and was Acting Mission Director. She was Director of the Disaster Response and Mitigation Division in the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and a project Meeting development officer in Honduras and Russia. She launched and directed USAID’s Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMM). While Director, she led the development 6-7 June of a conflict assessment framework now in use throughout the USG as well as the Fragile States Strategy. NYC She has been an adjunct at Johns Hopkins University-SAIS and most recently Georgetown University. She holds a master’s degree in Near East Studies from the University Of London School Of Oriental and African Studies and a diploma in international relations from Paris University School of Political Science.

Andrew Laing is Public Financial Management Lead, Afghanistan and ISE Senior Economist. He has worked for AusAID, as Assistant Director General of the Economics and Service Delivery Branch and Senior Public Finance Associate, and for the World Bank as a Senior Public Sector Specialist and Country Economist in Timor-Leste, Cambodia and Iraq. He started his public finance career in 1999 by developing the first accrual and outcome based and medium term budget preparation system for Australia’s immigration department before becoming a Budget Group Director within the Department of Finance. He has worked for various consulting firms on behalf of ADB, AusAID/DFAT, DFID, IMF, NZAid, SIDA, UN, UNDP, USAID and the World Bank. He specializes in team based performance management, budget support, PEFA reviews, central and sectoral fiduciary and development risk assessments, public expenditure reviews, cost-effectiveness and policy analysis, economic evaluations, reform and implementation designs, and capacity-releasing and professional development strategies. He has direct experience in: Afghanistan, Australia, Cambodia, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Ireland, Iraq, Lao PDR, Liberia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Turks and Caicos Islands, UK, US, Vietnam, West Bank, Gaza and Zambia.

Dr. Anne Le More is Special Adviser to the Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee, where she leads implementation of a strategy aimed at promoting sustained high-level engagement by governments, international institutions, and the private sector in emerging, crisis affected and post conflict countries. Prior to joining the OECD, Ms. Le More worked for nearly fifteen years at the United Nations both at headquarters in New York, in the Middle East and in Africa. She was Chief of staff and Senior Adviser to the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General and his Deputy in two peacekeeping operations, first in Cote d'Ivoire and then in Mali. In Mali, she was simultaneously acting Director of the Stability and Recovery team. Before, she worked on security, political and humanitarian affairs, including in executive offices and was directly involved in the peace mediation processes in Israel/Palestine, Sudan, Darfur and Mali. Ms. Le More holds a PhD in International Relations from Oxford University – UK. She is the author of "International Assistance to the Palestinians after Oslo - Political Guilt; Wasted Money" (Routledge, 2008, UK), and has written a number of articles on the Middle East.

Clare Lockhart is co-founder and Director of the Institute for State Effectiveness. She is co-author of “Fixing Failed States” (OUP, 2008) and author of several articles on the state, development, institution-building and citizenship. She is a regular contributor to the media, including Al Jazeera, BBC, CNN, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, New York Times, PBS, Sky News, the Times and Washington Post. She serves on a number of boards including the Asia Foundation, SOLA Afghanistan, the Women’s Regional Network for South Asia, and Equality for Peace and Democracy, and the Developmental Leadership Program.

Hayfa Matar is the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United Nations. Prior to taking up this post she served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United Kingdom. Between 2007 and 2012 she was an advisor to the Foreign Minister. Between 2006 and 2007, she held the position of counsellor to the President of the 61st Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Hayfa holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics and Economics from the University of Virginia and a Master’s Degree in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Habib Ur Rehman Mayar is Deputy General Secretary of the g7+ Secretariat. Mr. Mayar was Head of the Aid Coordination Unit in the Ministry of Finance, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, before joining the g7+ Secretariat. He has been working in the area of aid management since 2008. He was involved in discussions on the Paris Declaration, Accra Agenda for Action and the Busan Partnership, and participated in the negotiations on the 2016 New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States. Mr. Mayar holds a Masters of Management Partners’ and Policy degree from Baluchistan University of IT and Management Sciences. Consortium Meeting Stela Mocan joined the Information Technologies Solutions with the World Bank Group 6-7 June in July 2015. In 2010, Stela was appointed by the Government of Moldova as the 1st NYC Government Chief Information Officer, and during 2010-2015 led the digital transformation of government operations and public service delivery. During 20092010, she served as Moldova Prime Minister's advisor on governance and public administration reform. Previously, Stela led and managed governance and democracy building programs with UNDP, USAID, World Bank, international NGOs. Stela Mocan holds a Masters degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Masters in Political Sciences from the National School of Political and Administrative Studies. In March 2015, Stela was designated as a Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum.

Tara Moayed is a policy specialist, currently working with Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance to support the preparations of the Citizens Charter, which is a bold new vision for strengthened community empowerment and service delivery. She has worked extensively on Afghanistan's flagship community development programme, the National Solidarity Programme, while with the Aga Khan Foundation. Tara has worked in four continents in the field of social development and protection. She holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada, where she wrote her thesis on women’s voice and representation in the wider Middle East region.

Philip Munger is a long time ISE board member and a devotee of social organization, civic participation, and social entrepreneurship. He is treasurer and senior strategic advisor at Organizing For Action. He has been involved in internal deliberations and problem resolution in the Rural Support Program Network in Pakistan. He is on the board of entities that provide for greater voter U.S. registration and a board member at LMKRTS, which reduces risk in derivative portfolios, and Rhombus, which makes inverters that allow large scale deployment of energy storage.

Matthew H. Murray is a Senior Advisor on Governance and Rule of Law at the Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Previously, Mr. Murray served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at the Department of Commerce. He graduated from Tufts and holds a Masters from Columbia’s SIPA and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. In 1991, he founded Sovereign Ventures, Inc., which advised Fortune 100 companies, government agencies and multilateral organizations in Russia/Eurasia on corruption risk and dispute resolution. In 2000, Mr. Murray co-founded the Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, a non-profit dedicated to building rule- based markets in Russia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. In 2011, he was invited by the Brookings Institution to help launch the World Forum on Governance, a new platform dedicated to creating a unifying field theory for combating corruption.

Mina Al-Oraibi is an ISE Senior Fellow leading the Middle East Discourses project. She is an Iraqi-British journalist and political analyst who writes about the Middle East and U.S. and European policies toward the region. She is a contributor to several publications and a frequent guest on TV and radio, including the BBC, CNN, and Al-- Jazeera. Al-Oraibi is a former assistant editor in chief and Washington bureau chief for Asharq Alawsat, the internationally distributed, London-based Arab language newspaper. She is a special advisor to the Global Dignity Day movement and a member of both the Global Agenda Council on the Middle East and International Media Council. She is also a member of the board of trustees of the American University in Iraq and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009. Al-Oraibi earned a Bachelors of Arts and a Masters of Arts in Modern History from University College London.

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Ariadne Papagapitos is the program director for the Peacebuilding program of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Prior to joining the Fund in 2007, she helped lead a microfinance project with a nongovernmental organization in Bangalore, India. She has also worked as a researcher for a human rights lawyer in London, at the UNFPA, and at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Athens, Greece. Ms. 2016 Papagapitos was also a manager in the Media Villages department of the 2004 Athens Partners’ Olympic Committee where she helped coordinate the international press delegations’ Consortium reporting from Greece. She holds a Master of Science in human rights with a Meeting concentration in human rights law from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.A. in classics from Union College, where she studied and worked in Kenya. She currently serves on the board of Rising Tide Capital, an organization that assists 6-7 June struggling entrepreneurs in distressed urban communities to establish strong businesses and NYC create sustainable neighborhoods, and she represents the RBF on the Peace and Security Funders Group steering committee.

Stephen Peel is the founder of SMP Policy Innovation Limited, a non-for-profit organization aiming to promote, design and assist advanced government policy. Mr. Peel now spends his time on policy and philanthropic activities after recently stepping down from a 25-year career in the global private equity industry. From 1997 to 2014, Mr. Peel was a managing partner at one of the world’s largest global private investment firms, TPG Capital, most recently heading up the firm's activities across Asia and Eastern Europe. Mr. Peel received his MA from Cambridge University in 1987 and represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games in 1988. He received a Master of Advanced Studies from the Jackson Institute of Global Affairs at Yale University in 2015. He is currently a Visiting Fellow of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He serves on the boards of Lenta Limited and Global Witness, is a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Global Partners Council of the Institute of New Economic Thinking, on the advisory board for the Institute of State Effectiveness, on the advisory board of the Open Contracting Partnership, and on the Jackson Institute’s Advisory Council at Yale University.

Dr. Jago Salmon is an advisor to the United Nations and the World Bank Group on partnership in Fragile and Conflict Affected States. He joined the partnership from UNDP, where he was a lead governance specialist leading country operations and support to core government functions in the aftermath of crisis. Jago has over 15 years’ experience in research, programme design and management in fragile and conflict affected settings, with field and crisis response experience in Sudan, CAR, Somalia, Yemen, Liberia, Lebanon, Afghanistan and most recently worked as the manager of the UN's regional Payment Programme for Ebola Response Workers. Jago worked with the Small Arms Survey, International Crisis Group, the Overseas Development Institute and the UK's Department for International Development. He holds a doctorate on the formation and organisation of armed groups in civil wars.

Sujeev Shakya is the Founder CEO of beed, a Nepal-based international management consulting and financial advisory firm that works in Bhutan, Nepal and Rwanda. Prior to starting beed, he was Group President of one of Nepal’s largest business conglomerates where he spent nearly two decades of his career. He also serves as Senior Advisor – Nepal to Bower Group Asia, a Washington DC based advisory firm. He writes and speaks extensively on business, development, management and leadership. He is author of the bestseller Unleashing Nepal – Past, Present and Future of the Economy (Penguin Revised 2013). He is currently columnist with The Kathmandu Post and visiting faculty at Kathmandu University School of Management. He also Chairs the Nepal Economic Forum, which acts as a private sector interface to development. He was awarded the Humbert H Humphrey Fellowship by US Department of State.

Alan Solow is a partner at Resolute Consulting, LLC, a public affairs and strategic communications consultancy headquartered in Chicago. He was previously a partner at the international law firm, DLA Piper, LLP. A number of his work projects involve international infrastructure. From 2009 through 2011, Solow served as the Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, in which capacity he acted as the leader of the umbrella organization for organized American Jewry on issues of foreign policy. Since the completion of that term, Solow has acted as an outside advisor to the Obama Administration, most recently with respect to the approval of the Iran JCPOA. He served as a National Co‐Chair of the Obama‐Biden campaign in 2012.

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Dr. Marin Strmecki is Senior Vice President and Director of Programs of the Smith Richardson Foundation in Westport, Connecticut. The Foundation supports public policy research and writing and operates one of the country’s largest grant programs on national security and foreign policy issues. Dr. Strmecki has worked in a variety of advisory capacities in the U.S. government, serving as the Afghanistan Policy Coordinator and as a Special Advisor on Afghanistan in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, an adviser to Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad 2016 in Afghanistan and Iraq, and as a policy counselor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Previously, Dr. Partners’ Strmecki served as a professional staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as a member of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of Defense, Consortium and as a legislative assistant to Sen. Orrin Hatch. Dr. Strmecki was also a foreign policy adviser to Richard Meeting Nixon, assisting the former President with the research and writing of seven books on foreign policy and international politics. He received a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.A. in international affairs from the 6-7 June Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, a Ph.D. in government from Georgetown NYC University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Marika Theros is a London-based human rights and development analyst working at the intersection of public policy, academia and civil society. She provides strategic and programmatic advice on issues related to human rights and civil society to a range of organizations. She is currently a senior researcher at the Institute for State Effectiveness in Washington DC. Prior, she has consulted on labor rights governance for a quasi-governmental project owner in the GCC and served as a research officer at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she led their research program on Afghanistan, and continues to contribute to their Security-in-Transition program on issues of accountability, justice and conflict in the Balkans, the Middle East and Afghanistan. She also serves on the executive committee of the London Transitional Justice Network, the board of the Humanitarian Law Centre in the Balkans, and the LSE-based Human Security Study Group that provides input into the current EU strategic review of their external policy. She holds an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University and an MSc in Human Rights from the LSE, and is currently completing her Doctorate at the Department for International Development at LSE.

Kashif Zafar is co-Head of Global Distribution at Barclays, based in London. He also leads Distribution for the global Macro businesses, including FX, Rates and Commodities, and from a regional perspective leads Distribution for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is a member of the global Markets Executive Committee and the Global Diversity Council. He also serves as Co-Chair of the Embrace Network for EMEA. Prior to Barclays, Kashif worked at JP Morgan and Credit Suisse in the US. He serves on the boards of Race for Opportunity, the British Pakistan Foundation, and the American School in London, in the UK. In the US, he is on the board of International House and American Pakistan Foundation. He is an Associate Partner of Acumen and a member of the Global Advisory Council of Developments in Literacy. Kashif graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Middlebury College and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

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