Brindle joined HBO as an account executive, Affiliate Sales in June 1989 and was promoted to manager in the same area in 1992.  In 1994, she became manager, Subscriber Marketing and director a year later, where she oversaw the marketing and distribution of new HBO and Cinemax channels.  In 1998, Brindle was named director, Subscriber Marketing and Business Development and promoted to vice president in 2001, responsible for the development of acquisition, marketing, and promotional campaigns for HBO and Cinemax. 

She holds a BA in Rhetoric and Communications Studies and History from the University of Virginia.

Brindle’s interests include child advocacy, politics, and current events, as well as a passion for military and veterans affairs stemming from growing up as the daughter of an Air Force pilot who was killed in Vietnam. 

Brindle resides in Westfield, NJ with her husband Kip and their three children ages 8, 6, and 2.

Stephanie Cochinos - Board Member Stephanie Cochinos is a Director with Alvarez & Marsal Business Consulting, LLC in New York. With more than eight years of experience in corporate strategic planning, marketing and business development, Ms. Cochinos has worked with clients in industries such as financial services, consumer products, energy and education.

Ms. Cochinos primarily concentrates on strategic repositioning, including market sizing, segmentation and entry; customer segmentation; business line and product portfolio re-positioning; acquisition and joint venture strategy development; strategic plan development; customer relationship management; brand building; process re-engineering and new product development.

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Cochinos served as a strategic planner for Amerada Hess Corporation. Previously, she was an investment banker in the Global Power & Energy, Energy Technology practice of Merrill Lynch; a task manager with Pace Global Energy Services; and an account manager with the Standard Register Company.

Ms. Cochinos holds a bachelor's degree in American Political Theory from Georgetown University. She received a master's degree in business administration, with a concentration in Finance, from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business.

During his time with Americans for Informed Democracy, Green built a network that includes more than 23,000 members, created partnerships with leading think tanks, NGOs, businesses and foundations, and raised over one million dollars for the organization's programming. Prior to founding AID, Green worked at The American Prospect, The Brookings Institution, Taxpayers for Common Sense, and Lazard Freres.

Green has been a featured speaker on international affairs and youth activism at the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, World Bank, United Nations, Associated Press, and other leading institutions. He served as a table facilitator at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2005 and 2006 and as a guest at the White House Summit on Malaria in 2006. For his leadership on global affairs, he received Search for Common Ground's award for International Understanding.

Green is a frequent contributor to the media, having served as a guest on C-SPAN's Washington Journal, the Montel Williams Show, CNN, and MSNBC, and written op-eds for the Christian Science Monitor and Miami Herald. Green is a core contributor to the Partnership for a Secure America's Across the Aisle blog. In addition, his work with AID has been featured by hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Marie Claire.

A Marshall scholar, Green graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and earned masters degrees in Development Studies from the London School of Economics and in Women's Studies from Oxford University. He recently completed a JD degree at Yale Law School, where he was named an Olin Fellow by the Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy.

Green currently serves on the Board of Directors of Citizens for Global Solutions and Thinking Beyond Borders, the Network Advisory Team of Connect US, and the Advisory Board of America’s Impact. Most recently, he was nominated to serve on the Board of 20/20 Vision. He previously served on a Grant Review Panel for the Tides Foundation, on the selection committee for the Asia Society and Goldman Sachs Foundation Youth Prize, and on the National Youth Council of the March of Dimes.

 Patricia Langan - Board Member Patricia Langan is a Principal at Consulting for a Better World, which advises foundations, non profits, global and local corporations, official donors and governments on pathbreaking approaches to strategy, programs and international development. She aims to empower children, youth and women worldwide through connecting them to the best knowledge and resources. From 1997 to 2007, as Director of Programs at the International Youth Foundation (IYF), Patricia designed and managed IYFís strategic expansion to and diversification of funding for Africa and the Middle East, built alliances with global corporations such as Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, and Nokia, and developed IYFís new work in HIV prevention, IT in education, and youth employment and entrepreneurship in such countries and territories as Morocco, Tanzania, South Africa, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel.  IYF is a $23M non profit that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens in nearly 70 countries. 

Prior to IYF, Patricia served as a Public Sector Management Specialist at the World Bank, where she led innovative strategies to involve citizens in improving government service delivery in such countries as Nicaragua, Russia, and Mali. She began her career in project finance and served as Assistant Vice President at The Fuji Bank and National Westminster Bank, where she led the Bankís participation in financing the largest cogeneration plant in history. She has lived in Japan and Ukraine. She also serves on the board of Students Partnership Worldwide and volunteers for local youth education and employment programs in Washington, DC, where she currently lives. Patricia holds a masterís degree in Public Policy and International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School and a bachelorís degree from Brown University with a concentration in International Relations.

 Morgan H. McKenney - Board Member Morgan McKenney is the Chief Financial Officer of Global Transaction Services (GTS) of Citigroup. GTS is a $7.8B business that offers cash management, trade, and securities and fund services for leading corporates and institutions around the world. Prior to this role she was the Chief of Staff for Robert Druskin, Chief Operating Officer of Citigroup. She started off her career at Citigroup in the Strategy group of the Corporate and Investment Banking division.

Before joining Citigroup, Morgan worked in the New York office of London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE), now part of Euronext, working with US-based banks, hedge funds and other trading firms to grow exchange volumes.

Prior to LIFFE, she traded equities and derivatives for Martin "Buzzy" Schwartz, an independent trader based in Boca Raton, Florida. Marty is author of Pit Bull: Lessons from Wall Street's Champion Day Trader, and was featured in Jack Schwager's Market Wizards.

She began her career as a Management Associate at Capital One Financial in Richmond, Virginia.

Morgan is a board member of three non-profit organizations: Reach the World, Students Partnership Worldwide and non-partisan Americans for Informed Democracy.

Morgan received a BA in Computer Science from Amherst College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Anne Richard – Board Member   Anne C. Richard is Vice President, Government Relations & Advocacy, for the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Based in Washington, D.C., she leads the organization's relations with the executive branch, Congress and the NGO community — and she also guides the IRC's global advocacy efforts. The IRC conduncts humanitarian aid programs in 25 countries, assisting people uprooted by war or presecution — and operates a network of refegee resettlement offices in the United States.

Ms. Richard served as Director of the Secretary's Office of Resources, Plans and Policy at the State Department from 1999-2001 and, as such, was Secretary Albright's top adviser for budget and planning. She previously had served in the US Office of Management and Budget, Department of State and at Peace Corps headquarters and was part of the team that created the International Crisis Group.

She is a former International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow to Germany, and a Presidential Management Intern. Ms. Richard is a graduate of Georgetown University (B.S. Foreign Service) and the University of Chicago (M.A. Public Policy).

Tim Ruckh – Board Member Tim Ruckh is currently a PhD student in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins , CO .  His research focuses on biomaterials and tissue engineering of orthopaedic cell phenotypes.  He received his BS in mechanical engineering from University of Minnesota and his MS in mechanical engineering from Colorado State University .  He became involved with AID when he attended a “Bringing the World Home” summit in Berlin after spending the Fall 2004 semester in Lancaster , England .  While at CSU, Tim organized many successful AID events including town hall discussions, film screenings, speaker tours, and a conference.  In January 2006, Tim joined the AID board of directors as a young director and currently serves on the fundraising and advocacy sub-committees.  In his free time, Tim serves on the board of a local progressive faith organization and enjoys the many outdoor activities that Colorado has to offer.

Jacob Scherr - Board Chair  S. Jacob Scherr is a Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in its Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Scherr serves as Director of NRDC's International Program and a Director of the NRDC BioGems Initiative. During his career with NRDC since 1976, he has worked extensively on a broad range of international environmental and nuclear issues.

In 1989, Mr. Scherr initiated NRDC’s work on global climate change. In 1992, he founded Earth Summit Watch to monitor national implementation of the commitments to sustainable development made at the Rio Earth Summit; and he was actively very involved in the August 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development. Mr. Scherr created the Earth Legacy campaign launched in June 2004 to seek the creation of an unprecedented Congressionally-mandated commission on the state of the global environment and the role of the United States.

Mr. Scherr also has worked extensively with indigenous peoples and environmental organizations in various countries concerned about threats posed by large-scale development projects. He was a leader of the successful campaign to stop the construction of a giant saltworks at Laguna San Ignacio, an important gray whale nursery, in Baja Calfornia, Mexico (1995-2000). Mr. Scherr now oversees NRDC’s initiative to protect such threatened special natural places – called “BioGems” – throughout the Americas. Over the last four years, more than 500,000 people have come to the BioGems website, signed up as “BioGem Defenders” e-activists, and sent more than 5 million messages to government and corporate officials.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Scherr has participated in numerous legal and administrative proceedings; testified before Congressional committees; published articles, chapters, and reports; and addressed university, professional, and public audiences. He has worked extensively with the media. Mr. Scherr produced both NRDC’s first nationally-televised presentation and advocacy advertising campaign.

Mr. Scherr also serves as President of the Herbert Scoville, Jr. Peace Fellowship and is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Center for Environmental Leadership in Business.

Mr. Scherr is a 1970 graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. In 1974, he received his JD with highest honors from the University of Maryland Law School. Prior to joining NRDC, he was a Fellow at the American Society of International Law and a lecturer in International Law at the University of Maryland School of Law.

Jon Seeber – Board Member  Jon Seeber is an Associate at Updata Partners, a Venture Capital and Private Equity firm. He supports the firm's deal sourcing and due diligence efforts, and works closely with Updata Partners portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Updata Partners, Mr. Seeber worked for IBM Global Services Business Development, where he managed acquisition, divestiture, and investment activities for IBM's largest business unit. He played a key role on several transactions, including the acquisitions of Internet Security Systems, Healthlink, and Corio, leading efforts ranging from strategy development and due diligence to negotiation and integration planning.

From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Seeber served on active duty in the US Air Force as an Intelligence Officer, first leading combat intelligence collection missions, and later managing the development of information systems for the Air Force and the Intelligence Community.

Mr. Seeber earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Computer Science and History from Duke University, where he was a member of the varsity wrestling team.

Lynne Steuerle Schofield, M.S., M. Phil.– Board Member 
Temple University, Center for Research in Human Development and Education
Lynne Steuerle Schofield is special assistant to the dean of the College of Education at Temple University. Lynne holds two master's degrees from Carnegie Mellon University: an M.S. in statistics and an M.Phil. in public policy. Lynne is working on her doctorate in statistics and public policy. Lynne Steuerle Schofield is a co-founder of Our Voices Together and a supporter of Save the Children. Daughter of Norma Steuerle, American Airlines Flight 77.

Zeeshan Suhail – Board Member  Zeeshan is a Board Member for Americans for Informed Democracy and the Muslim Consultative Network. He recently completed a Master's degree in International Relations at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was an active member of student government at his undergraduate school, Queens College-CUNY, where he was the first Pakistani and the first Muslim to be elected Vice President in the 35 years of student government history. Zeeshan has appeared on CNN and his work has been published in Q-News (Britain), The World Scholar (New York), Pakistan Post (New York) and The Nation (Pakistan). In his spare time, Zeeshan volunteers for the United Nations Association, the Foreign Policy Association, and has received advanced leadership certifications from the Institute of Student Leadership at Paper Clip Communications as well as the National Conference on Student Leadership.

Born in Allahabad, a small town on the Ganges River in what was then British India, Dr. Ahmed is a distinguished anthropologist, writer and filmmaker. He has been actively involved in inter-faith dialogue — and his work to bring understanding between Islam and the West has included three appearances on Oprah and a BBC news series called "Living Islam" — broadcast for the first time in 1993.

Dr. Ahmed first became interested in Muslim leadership and its impact on Muslim society in the 1980s — when he was Pakistani Commissioner in Baluchistan. The study of global Islam and its impact on contemporary society has been the major focus of his work since.

From 1999 to 2000, Dr. Ahmed was the Pakistani High Commissioner (Ambassador) to the United Kingdom. He has also held many other senior positions in Pakistan.

His many award-winning books include: Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society, Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise, Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World and Jinnah Quartet.

Richard Betts.  Richard Betts (Ph.D., Harvard, 1975) is a specialist on national security policy and military strategy, he was a Senior Fellow and Research Associate at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC from 1976-1990, and has taught at Harvard and the Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Betts has also served on the staff of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and as a consultant to the National Security Council and Central Intelligence Agency. In addition to numerous journal articles in International Security, World Politics, Foreign Affairs, and elsewhere he has published Military Readiness (Brookings, 1995); Soldiers, Statesmen, and Cold War Crises, 2d edition (Columbia University Press, 1991); Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance (Brookings, 1987); and Surprise Attack (Brookings, 1982). He has also co-authored or edited three other books, including The Irony of Vietnam (Brookings, 1979), which won the Woodrow Wilson Prize.

Amy Chua.  Amy Chua is author of the New York Times best-seller "World on Fire" and a professor at Yale Law School. She lectures frequently on the effects of globalization to government, business, and academic groups around the world, and has taught law at Duke, Stanford, and New York Universities.

David Devlin-Foltz.  David Devlin-Foltz, director of the Global Interdependence Initiative, has 20 years of experience in public education, international exchange, and constituency building efforts in southern Africa and the United States. Before coming to the Aspen Institute in 1993, he worked for the Institute of International Education, the School for International Training, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. A Peace Corps volunteer at the National University of Rwanda from 1979 to 1981, David has taught and managed programs in France, Spain, and Zimbabwe. His written and edited works deal with the public role of religion, education in Namibia, and US public attitudes toward global issues.

Michael Diamond. Michael Diamond is the President of World Resources Chicago, a consulting firm in Chicago, which he started to help businesses and organizations, respond to global challenges and opportunities. For the past three years he was the Executive Director of The Global Chicago Center of The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Global Chicago was created to assist Chicago’s response to globalization and received initial funding from the Macarthur Foundation and the Chicago Community Trust. For the previous 25 years, Michael worked with social and economic development programs around the world. For 10 years, he was the Division Manager of the Humanitarian Programs of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International and in that capacity he managed PolioPlus, Rotary’s global program to eradicate polio. For 15 years he worked with the international YMCA and lived in Bangladesh, Switzerland and finally came to Chicago. In this work he has visited over 45 countries and has worked with people in over 150 countries. He received his M.A. in Medical/Social Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York.

Mary Fetchet. Mary Fetchet is founding director of Voices of September 11. Her mission was clear and simple: create an organization that addresses the ongoing needs of survivors and the families of the nearly 3,000 victims and to promote awareness of prevention, preparedness and response issues related to terrorism. VOICES of September 11th is the result of that vision.

Based in New Canaan , Connecticut , the international organization serves as a clearinghouse of information on 9/11-related issues, offers links to other related resources and organizations and provides an expanding range of community-based services. These programs include support groups, lectures, forums and outreach to all those affected by the events of September 11th.

VOICES has also achieved significant local and national recognition for advocacy work that involves, among other issues, respectful recovery efforts, appropriate family notification processes, and the creation of a proper memorial at the WTC site.

A strong advocate for raising national and local preparedness, Ms. Fetchet campaigned for the creation of the independent 9/11 Commission and continues to promote the implementation of the Commission's recommendations for government reforms. She also serves on a number of critical 9/11 committees and organizations including: The Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Independent Commission; the Coalition of 9/11 Families; the Family Advisory Committee of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) and Columbia University 's WTC Evacuation Study.

Her work has brought her substantial recognition that includes being the recipient of the National Justice Award in 2003 and being presented with the 'Connecticut Hero' award by Senator Lieberman in September 2004. Most recently, she was named an ABC News Person of the Year in December, 2004.

A graduate of Columbia University with an MA degree, Ms Fetchet worked as a clinical social worker at Bridges, an outpatient mental health clinic in Milford , Connecticut . She lives in New Canaan with her husband Frank and two surviving sons, Chris, age 16, and Wes, age 24.

Timothy Garton Ash.  Timothy Garton Ash, an internationally acclaimed contemporary historian who focuses on Europe since 1945, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Garton Ash is in residence at Hoover on a part-year basis, while continuing his appointment as director of the European Studies Centre and Gerd Bucerius Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary History of St. Antony's College, Oxford University.

Among the topics his work has covered are the emancipation and eventual liberation of Central Europe from communism, the eastern policy of Germany and that country's eventual reunification, how countries deal with a difficult past, the role of intellectuals in politics, and the relationship between the European Union and the larger Europe. He is currently working on a book about Europe and America.

He is the author of seven books: History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s (1999); The File: A Personal History (1998); In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (1993); The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 1989 as Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (1990); The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (1989); The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, 1980–82 (1983); and Und Willst Du Nicht Mein Brüder Sein . . . Die DDR Heute (1981).

Garton Ash is a fellow of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts. He is a governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and a member of several prestigious editorial boards.

He has also received numerous honors and awards for distinguished scholarship including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Order of Merit from Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic, and an honorary doctorate from St. Andrew's University, the oldest University in Scotland.

He frequently writes for leading newspapers and magazines and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.

Garton Ash holds two degrees in modern history from Exeter College, Oxford, and studied at the graduate level at St. Antony's College, Oxford, at the Free University in West Berlin, and at Humboldt University in East Berlin.

Susan Graseck. Susan Graseck is the founding director of the Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, the outreach component of the Watson Institute’s programmatic structure. For the past 17 years, she has overseen the development of this program, which now reaches out to thousands of teachers and secondary-level students throughout the country through its curriculum resources, professional development programs, and Capitol Forum initiative. Before coming to the Watson Institute, Graseck was the executive director of the Topsfield Foundation, codirector of Options: A University Outreach Program on International Issues, and a founding member of the Board of Access: A Security Information Service in Washington, D.C. She also has a background in K-12 teaching. Graseck serves on the board of directors of the Paul J. Aicher Foundation (and the Study Circles Resource Center). She holds a MEd from Lesley College.

Jonathan Greenblatt. Jonathan Greenblatt is a successful social entrepreneur focused on creating profitable enterprises to change the world. Greenblatt co-founded Ethos Water in 2002 with his business partner, Peter Thum, in order to help children around the world get clean water by launching a brand of bottled water in the US whose profits directly would support humanitarian water programs in developing countries. Ethos was sold to Starbucks Coffee Company in 2005 and Greenblatt served as a vice president of global consumer products for the company, managing the bottled water business, as well as a member of the board of the Starbucks Foundation, developing the principles to guide its water-related investments. Today, Ethos is sold in more than 5,000 Starbucks locations across the US and has achieved record performance for the company in bottled water sales. Equally importantly, Ethos is projected to invest more than $10 million through 2010 to bring clean water to children and communities in need around the world.

Before founding Ethos Water, Greenblatt was an executive serving in managerial and operational roles at Move.com. Greenblatt served as vice president and general manager of the company's primary consumer products group, managing a $30 million division of the company.

Prior to entering the private sector, Greenblatt spent more than five years developing international economic policy in the Clinton Administration where he served in the White House and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Before joining the administration, Greenblatt worked in Little Rock, Arkansas on Gov. Bill Clinton?s first successful presidential campaign in 1992.

Greenblatt holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Tufts University. Jonathan serves as an advisor to numerous social ventures. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University.

Jonathan is a frequent speaker and writer on social entreprenuership and serves as a contributor to Worldchanging.com.

Husain Haqqani.  Husain Haqqani is a leading journalist, diplomat, and former advisor to Pakistani prime ministers. He is a syndicated columnist for The Indian Express, Gulf News and The Nation(Pakistan).

Haqqani's journalism career includes work as East Asian correspondent for Arabia - The Islamic World Review and Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review. He contributes to numerous international publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, The Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, and Arab News. He regularly comments on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Islamic politics and extremism on BBC, CNN, NBC, and ABC.

Haqqani also has a distinguished career in government. He served as an advisor to Pakistani prime ministers Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Nawaz Sharif, and Benazir Bhutto. From 1992 to 1993 he was Pakistan's ambassador to Sri Lanka.

Heather B. Hamilton. Heather Hamilton currently serves as Chief of Staff of Citizens for Global Solutions. She has worked with the organization for five years, during which time she served as Vice President for Programs. Heather has been quoted in national and international media, including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, and The New Republic, and has appeared on National Public Radio, Al Hurra, CNN International and BBC World News. Heather received her MA in International Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University in Washington, DC, concentrating on conflict prevention, gender and conflict, and Africa. While in Kenya with the United Nations, she conducted research with Rwandan government officials, aid agencies and women's organizations on women's roles in post-conflict reconstruction. Her findings were published as a chapter in the Journal of Humanitarian Assistance's book, The Future of the African Great Lakes Region. Heather formerly worked as Manager of the Community Education Center at OMB Watch, a public policy nonprofit in Washington, DC, on nonprofit advocacy and U.S. budget issues. She coordinated the Let America Speak! Coalition and the grassroots section of the coalition opposing the balanced budget amendment. She graduated magna cum laude from Hood College with a BA in political science and minors in French and International Economics.

Kimberly Hamilton. Kimberly A. Hamilton was appointed president of NetAid in June 2005. NetAid is a New York-based nonprofit that educates, inspires, and empowers young people to fight global poverty. Hamilton brings to NetAid a rare combination of cross-organizational expertise. Her strengths in program development, external communications and fundraising will build on NetAid's early successes to direct the energy of American youth into a unified and informed movement to end global poverty.

Hamilton is an expert on sub-Saharan Africa and international migration, has lived in Senegal and Botswana, and carries with her rich experience working on issues of international development, poverty and globalization. Prior to joining NetAid, Hamilton was director of program planning and external relations at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), where she created the highly regarded and innovative online resource, the Migration Information Source. Created to change public knowledge and discourse about international migration, "The Source" has won several awards for web-based communications. With a background in African studies and demography, she has written on a variety of poverty-related issues, including migration from Africa to Europe, Mexico-U.S. migration relations, diaspora and development, and the social and economic impact of global HIV/AIDS.

Prior to joining MPI, Hamilton was a senior program officer at Alcoa Foundation, where she oversaw global grantmaking in 25 countries and worked on corporate social responsibility efforts. She previously served as a program officer at the Howard Gilman Foundation and as associate director for social policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She developed and directed programs on global HIV/AIDS, environmental conservation, humanitarian relief, and human rights. She began her career as an education coordinator for refugees.

Hamilton holds a Ph.D. in demography from Brown University and a master's degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Her B.A. in international studies and French is from the Robert D. Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. She is a native of Maine and currently lives in New York City with her husband, Holden Basch.

Nancy Hunt. Nancy Hunt has served as president of the We Are Family Foundation since its inception in 2002. As president, Nancy is responsible for developing educational programs, forging strategic partnerships, and spearheading fundraising initiatives. Directly after 9/11 Nancy was executive producer of the We Are Family Project, which brought over 200 celebrities together to re-record "We Are Family" as a start of the healing process. She was also executive producer of the "We Are Family" children's music video PSA which brought together over 100 children's television characters for the first time in history to promote diversity and multiculturalism. Prior to the Foundation, Nancy co-founded Smock Media Inc., an art-based media company in 1999, and Notorious Entertainment, an upscale urban brand with media icon Sean "Puffy" Combs in 1996. During her tenure as Partner and Executive Vice President of both media companies, Nancy oversaw joint ventures, the publishing of Smock and Notorious magazines and the extensions of each brand that included television and website development. Nancy previously served as Director of Marketing for Revlon, Crayola, Chevrolet, JH Collectibles and Gitano eyewear divisions. She is also an award-winning photographer, directing Image Master Seminars in 18 U.S. cities, sponsored by Kodak, Polaroid, Hasselblad and Sinar-Bron. As a graduate fellow at The American University, Nancy earned her Master's degree in clinical psychology.

Juliette N. Kayyem.  Juliette N. Kayyem serves as the Acting Executive Director for Research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Since 2001, Ms. Kayyem has been a resident scholar at the Belfer Center, serving both as Executive Director of the Kennedy Schools Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness, a terrorism and homeland security research program, and as co-Director of Harvard's Long-Term Legal Strategy for Combating Terrorism. She also teaches courses on law and national security.

Tom Malinowski.  Tom Malinowski has been Washington Advocacy Director for Human Rights Watch since April 2001. He has served as Special Assistant to President Clinton and Senior Director for Foreign Policy Speechwriting at the National Security Council. He also served as speechwriter for Secretaries of State Albright and Christopher as an aide to the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

John T. McCarthy.  John T. McCarthy was ambassador to Tunisia 1991-94, during which time he carried on an official dialogue with Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. He was ambassador to Lebanon 1988-90, at the end of that country's civil war. He recently retired after a long career in government service, which began when he joined the Foreign Service in 1962. He spent the next 35 years working at the State Department in Washington D.C. or at various American embassies and consulates overseas. He currently serves on the board of Save the Children USA and continues to travel widely.

Thomas O. Melia.  Thomas O. Melia. Thomas O. Melia is Director of Research at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where he also teaches courses on "democratic change" in the School of Foreign Service.

For more than a dozen years, Melia held senior posts at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), a leading non-governmental organization engaged in the promotion of democracy worldwide. From 1998 to 2001, he was the Institute's Vice President for Programs. Earlier, he managed the Institute's programs in Central and Eastern Europe (1988 to 1993) and in the Middle East (1993 to 1998). During his time at NDI, Melia worked on democratization programs in more than 50 countries, and visited most of those.

Mr. Melia was Associate Director of the Free Trade Union Institute of the AFL-CIO (1986 to 1988). Prior to that he served for six years as Legislative Assistant for foreign and defense policy to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY).

He currently serves also as Senior Advisor to both Freedom House, the oldest human rights organziation in the United States, and the National Democratic Institute. His work for these two organizations has brought him recently to Afghanistan, Iraq and Mexico among other places.

Andrew Nagorski.  Andrew Nagorski returned to New York as a senior editor in January 2000, after serving as a foreign correspondent in several postings, most recently in Berlin. In his new job, Nagorski is developing the editorial cooperation between Newsweek International and its expanding network of foreign language editions and other joint venture partners. The most recent addition has been Newsweek Polska, which has become Poland’s leading newsmagazine since it was launched in September, 2001. Nagorski also continues to write reviews and commentaries for Newsweek International.

As Berlin bureau chief from 1996 to 1999, Nagorski provided in-depth reporting about Germany's efforts to overcome the legacy of division, the immigration debate, and German-Jewish relations. From Berlin, Nagorski also covered Central Europe, taking advantage of his long experience in the region and his knowledge of Polish, Russian, German and French.

From 1990 to 1994, he served as Newsweek’s Warsaw bureau chief, and he has served two tours of duty as Newsweek’s Moscow bureau chief, first in the early 1980s and then from 1995 to 1996. In 1982, he gained international notoriety when the Soviet government, angry about his enterprising reporting, expelled him from the country. After spending the next two and a half years as Rome bureau chief, he became Bonn bureau chief.

From 1978 to 1980, Nagorski served as the Hong Kong-based Asian regional editor for Newsweek International and then as Hong Kong Bureau Chief. After joining Newsweek International in 1973 as an associate editor, he was its assistant managing editor from 1977 to 1978.

In 1988, Nagorski took a one-year leave of absence to serve as a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. He is the author of two non-fiction books: “Reluctant Farewell: An American Reporter’s Candid Look Inside the Soviet Union” (New Republic/Henry Holt, 1985) and “The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe” (Simon & Schuster, 1993). His first novel, “Last Stop Vienna, “ about the early years of the Nazi movement, will be published by Simon & Schuster in January, 2003.

Nagorski has been honored three times by the Overseas Press Club for his reporting. His expertise has also resulted in appearances on programs such as CBS's “Face the Nation,” CNN's “International Hour,” National Public Radio, BBC-TV, Voice of America and PBS’s “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.”

Nagorski taught social studies at Wayland High School in Massachusetts before joining Newsweek. Born in Edinburgh of Polish parents (who shortly after his birth emigrated to the United States), he attended school overseas while his father was in the U.S. foreign service. He earned a B.A. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College in 1969 and studied at the University of Cracow. Nagorski and his wife, Christina, have four children.

Adil Najam. Professor Adil Najam teaches international negotiation and diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University, USA). His research and teaching focuses on issues related to international environmental negotiations, human security, trade and environment, policy roles of NGOs, global climate change; all with a particular focus on developing country concerns. He has published widely in the leading journals of these fields and his recent books include "Civic Entrepreneurship" (with Tariq Banuri, seven volumes, 2002) and "Environment, Development and Human Security: Perspectives from South Asia" (Editor, 2003). He holds two Masters and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Specialization in Negotiation from the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School. He is a past winner of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Paddock Teaching Award, the MIT Goodwin Medal for Excellence in Teaching, the Stien Rokan Award of the International Political Science Association, and the Emerging Scholar Award of the Association for Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary Association. He serves on the Boards of the Pakistan Institute for Environment-Development Action Research (PIEDAR), the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria, and the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future and is a Visiting Fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan. He also serves on the editorial boards of the journals "Ecological Economics", "Nonprofit and Voluntary Studies Quarterly" and the "Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and Development". Adil Najam is currently the convening lead author for the chapter on sustainable development in the next Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Salameh Nematt. Salameh Nematt is the Washington Bureau Chief of Al-Hayat, International Arab Daily (London) and the LBC, the Lebanon-Based Arab Satellite Channel.

He took this post in Washington in March, 2003, after setting up a newsroom in London, designed to serve the joint venture between Al-Hayat and LBC.

Salameh Nematt served as Managing Editor for the joint operation between July, 2002 and June, 2003. His responsibilities included recruiting staff, designing and implementing the editorial plan and strategy for the news integration venture between the two media entities. The ultimate purpose was to produce a multi-media operation, drawing on the human and technical resources of the two organizations, which involved training Al-Hayat correspondents in key locations throughout the world to produce television packages and reports for the LBC. Al-Hayat was to benefit from the exposure provided by the television side of the operation, while the LBC benefited from the resources of Al-Hayat's correspondents and editorial department in London.

Among his previous posts, he has been diplomatic correspondent in London for Al-Hayat, as well as the Amman Bureau Chief for Al-Hayat and freelance correspondent for the BBC Arabic Service.

For a brief period in 1999, he served as Head of the Strategy Unit at Jordan's Royal Court, an advisory post for the king. He resigned two months after taking the job due to policy differences with the government over democratic reforms . Returned shortly afterwards to Al-Hayat.

He was Chief Political correspondent of the English language "Jordan Times" daily and Al-Rai leading Arabic language Jordanian Daily.

Throughout his journalistic carreer, he has contributed to several Arabic, English- and other foreign language publications including The Economist, Middle East Magazine, Jane's Defence Weekly, Mideast Mirror, Die Zeit, dpa, Newsweek, BBC World Service (English), UPI, Oxford Analytica, as well as international broadcast media such as BBC World, ITV News, ABC news, PBS, CBC radio and TV, Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya and Al-Hurra, and numerous other media.

He also worked as regional correspondent for the BBC Arabic Service TV, in addition to his work as Bureau Chief for Al-Hayat and Correspondent for BBC Arabic Service radio.

Over the past 20 years, his work involved reporting on and analyzing developments related to the Iran-Iraq war, the 1990-1991 Iraq invasion of Kuwait and the second Gulf war, and the Arab-Israeli peace process.

Salameh Nematt is fluent in written and spoken Arabic and English, with a fair knowledge of French.

Andrew Razeghi. Andrew Razeghi is author of the book Hope: How Triumphant Leaders Create the Future (Jossey-Bass, June 2006) - hailed by Cancer Survivor and Tour de France Champion Lance Armstrong, best-selling author Ken Blanchard, and Dr. Jim Belasco - who has called HOPE "the trailblazing management book of our time." As founder of The Andrew Razeghi Companies, LLC, he works with leaders of organizations seeking growth through the creation and introduction of new ideas. His work spans industries – from consumer packaged goods to healthcare, tourism to media, and non-profit organizations to professional sports teams. Andrew is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and shortly after the fall of Communism in Central Europe, he was invited to be among the first American professors to teach free market economics at The Prague University of Economics in Prague, The Czech Republic. Andrew is a review panelist for The Wright Centers of Innovation at The National Academies of Science in Washington, D.C. and a Thought Leader with The Financial Times Knowledge Dialogue. For more information, visit www.andrewrazeghi.com.

Richard Reeves.  Richard Reeves, author of President Nixon: Alone in the White House (October 2001), is a writer and syndicated columnist who has made a number of award-winning documentary films. His ninth book, President Kennedy: Profile of Power — now considered the authoritative work on the 35th president — won several national awards and was named the Best Non-Fiction Book of 1993 by Time. His other best selling books include Convention and American Journey: Travelling with Tocqueville in Search of American Democracy.

Recipient of the 1998 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Reeves writes a twice-weekly column that appears in more than 100 newspapers. He is a former chief political correspondent for The New York Times and has written extensively for numerous magazines, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire and New York.

He is a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and the former Regents Professor of Political Science at UCLA. In 1998, he won the Carey McWilliams Award of the American Political Science Association for distinguished contributions to the understanding of American politics. He was the Goldman Lecturer on American Civilization and Government at the Library of Congress that year; the lectures were published by Harvard University Press under the title What People Know: Freedom and the Press.

Reeves, named a “literary lion” by the New York Public Library, has won a number of print journalism awards and has been a Pulitzer Prizefinalist and juror. He has made six television films and won all of television’s major documentary awards: the Emmy for “Lights, Camera … Politics!” for ABC News; the Columbia-DuPont Award for “Struggle for Birmingham” for PBS; and the George Foster Peabody Award for “Red Star over Khyber” for PBS.

He is also the author of Family Travels: Around the World in 30 Days and was a columnist for Travel and Leisure for six years. He is married to Catherine O’Neill, who is director of the United Nations office in Washington and is the founder of the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children. They have five children.

Nikki Stern. Nikki Stern is the former executive director of Families of September 11 (FOS11), a nonprofit organization founded in October 2001 by families of those who died in the September 11 terrorist attacks that seeks to support families and children by offering updated information on issues of interest and to champion domestic and international policies that respond to the threat of terrorism. Prior to her work with FOS11, she worked as a public relations and communications consultant to the architecture and design communities. Since September 11th, Nikki has also served as a facilitator and advisor to countless public processes associated with the memorializing and rebuilding efforts at Ground Zero. Ms. Stern is a member of the United Services Group Board of Directors; the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation's Families Advisory Council; and the Civic Alliance of New York City Steering Committee. Ms Stern wrote the original iteration of the WTC Memorial Mission Statement and served on the committee that drafted the version that was used as part of the final Memorial Design competition. She also served as the Director of Families of September 11th, a national families’ advocacy group, as well as the New Jersey Governor’s 9-11 Victims’ Families Liaison. Nikki Stern holds a BA in History from Washington University and an MA in Political Science from Georgetown University. View Nikki's blog at www.1womansvu.com

Mark Stoler.  Mark A. Stoler is Professor of History at the University of Vermont. He earned his B.A. at the City College of New York and his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of The Politics of the Second Front: American Military Planning and Diplomacy in Coalition Warfare, 1941-1943 (1977), George C. Marshall: Soldier-Statesman of the American Century (1989), and co-author of Explorations in American History: A Skills Approach (1987) and Major Problems in the History of World War II (2002). His most recent monograph is Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance, and U.S. Strategy in World War II (2000), which won the 2002 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History.

Since 1970, Stoler has taught at the University of Vermont, where he has been honored for his scholarship with the University Scholar Award (1993), as well as his teaching, with the George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award (1984) and the Dean's Lecture Award (1992). In addition, he has served as a visiting professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Naval War College, and at the University of Haifa in Israel under the Fulbright Program. Stoler has served on the SHAFR Council (2000-2002), the nominating committee (1991-1994), the annual conference planning committee (1989-1990), the Bernath Book Prize committee (1988-1991), and the membership committee (1974-1984). Other service includes a term on the Board of Editors for Diplomatic History (1986-1989) as well as the Army's Historical Advisory Committee (1996-2000). Stoler currently serves on the Board of Directors for the World War II Studies Association and the Board of Trustees of the Society for Military History. He is currently working on two book projects.

Lauren Thompson.  Lauren Thompson (B.A., Ethics, Politics, and Economics, Yale, 2005) is the Woodbridge Fellow at Yale University, serving as a special assistant in the Office of the President and Office of the Secretary.

An advocate for promoting global awareness among students, she became the founding director of the College Council for CARE in 2002 – an initiative that launched the first formal partnership between college students and one of the world’s leading humanitarian organizations. A native of Atlanta, where CARE has its U.S. headquarters, Lauren began organizing outreach for the organization as a high school student. From this experience, she entered college open to the potential and possibilities of U.S. youth leadership in global social change.

Lauren has previously served on the Board of Directors for the Dwight Hall Center for Public Service and Social Justice, the largest student-run public service organization in the country with over 73 service and advocacy groups providing services to 20,000 children and adults every year. Its mission is “to foster civic-minded student leaders and to promote service and activism in New Haven and around the world.” In addition to local activism with the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Project, United Way and New Haven public schools, her interests in fighting poverty have led her overseas to support programs for empowering women in Guatemala and Sierra Leone.

Lauren comes to AID with a keen interest in supporting outreach and advising the AID-CARE Fellow on international development advocacy.

Mustapha Tlili.  Sorbonne educated, Mustapha Tlili is Director of the UN Project at the World Policy Institute and Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is a former senior United Nations official having served the Organization in various capacities over a long career. In particular, he was the director of the UN Information Center for France located in Paris; chief of the Namibia, Anti-Apartheid, Palestine and Decolonization programs in the Department of Public Information at UN Headquarters in New York; and principal officer/director in charge of communications policy in the same department. An established novelist, Mustapha Tlili has published Lion Mountain (Little, Brown, 1990), also published in Chinese, French and Spanish; La Rage aux tripes; Le Bruit dort; and Gloire des sables (Gallimard, 1975, 1978, and 1982 respectively). In addition, he edited and contributed to For Nelson Mandela (Henry Holt, 1987) and published an essay on Macchiavelli’s Theory of Government in the Sorbonne’s Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale. Mustapha Tlili is a Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters.

Jason Wasfy Jason H. Wasfy, a second-year student at Harvard Medical School, is a co-founder of Americans for Informed Democracy and has served in the past as as AID's Director for U.S. Operations.

A tenacious advocate for health care at home and abroad, Mr. Wasfy is the founder of the Harvard Iraq Medical Relief Coalition and is co-director of the Harvard chapter of Physicians for Human Rights. He spent the summer of 2004 in Bosnia assessing the effects war on public health in Sarajevo. He has also published commentary on improving the relevance of clinical data to American minority groups in the New England Journal of Medicine.

As a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, he was elected by his classmates to give the address at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Marshall Scholarships in London. He received the M.Phil. in politics from Oxford. At Oxford, his graduate research applied the state-centric model of U.S. foreign policy to a study of global health care aid programs of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Mr. Wasfy received his undergraduate degree (2001) from MIT, where he achieved a perfect grade point average studying chemical and biomedical engineering. At MIT, Mr. Wasfy was the chairman of a student committee on faculty relations, and wrote over 50 reports and articles for campus publications. Mr. Wasfy was also a Burchard Scholar in the humanities and social sciences. He won the Kelly Prize for politics and the Klein prize for technical writing twice. Working on emerging issues in educational policy, he served as the student representative on several faculty committees. His commentary on MIT's OpenCourseWare project has been cited in news outlets worldwide.

As a summer intern at the National Academy of Sciences, Mr. Wasfy researched the rising tobacco epidemic in the developing world, and he has worked on extending Internet access to rural communities in the United States as an intern in the U.S. Senate. At the Association for Health and Environmental Development in Cairo, Egypt, Mr. Wasfy investigated problems in children's and women's health that exist in Cairo's urban slums.

With Americans for Informed Democracy, Mr. Wasfy organized a Town Hall meeting on U.S. foreign policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and has spearheaded many of AID's editorial writing campaigns. His work in foreign policy has been featured in many newspapers, including the New York Times.

Mr. Wasfy is a member of the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the Tau Beta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi honor societies. He is a native of Great Falls, Virginia.

Carol Welch.  Carol Welch is the US Coordinator of the Millennium Campaign. The campaign seeks to promote public understanding and awareness of the Millennium Development Goals and the role of citizens and governments in meeting these internationally agreed goals. She works with a wide range of constituencies to support their efforts to promote the MDGs, and links activities in the U.S. to global efforts to meet MDG targets. Previously, she worked for over seven years at Friends of the Earth, where her last position was Director of the International Program, overseeing FoE’s campaigns on international financial institutions, trade and corporate accountability. Carol served on the Executive Committee of the Jubilee 2000/USA debt campaign and has authored several articles and publications on World Bank/IMF reform issues. Carol has a Bachelor in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Timothy Wirth. The Honorable Timothy Wirth is the President of the United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund. These organizations were founded in 1998 through a major financial commitment from R.E. Turner to support and strengthen the work of the United Nations.

Wirth began his political career as a White House Fellow under President Lyndon Johnson and was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education in the Nixon Administration. In 1970, Wirth returned to his home state and successfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District from 1975-1987. In the House, he concentrated his efforts in the areas of communications technology and budget policy. In 1986, Wirth was elected to the U.S. Senate where he focused on environmental issues, especially global climate change and population stabilization. Wirth chose not to run for re-election.

Following those two decades of elected politics, Wirth served in the U.S. Department of State as the first Undersecretary for Global Affairs from 1993 to 1997. In this position he coordinated U.S. foreign policy in the areas of refugees, population, environment, science, human rights and narcotics.

As President of the UN Foundation since its inception in early 1998, Wirth has organized and led the formulation of the Foundation’s mission and program priorities, which include the environment, women and population, children’s health and peace, security and human rights. The Foundation also engages in extensive public advocacy, resource mobilization, and institutional strengthening efforts on behalf of the UN.

Prior to entering politics, Wirth was in private business in Colorado. He is a graduate of Harvard College and holds a PhD from Stanford University. The recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, he also served as a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers. Wirth is married to Wren Wirth, the President of the Winslow Foundation; they have two grown children and three grandchildren.

James Zogby. Dr. James J. Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a Washington, D.C.-based organization which serves as the political and policy research arm of the Arab American community. Since 1985, Dr. Zogby and AAI have led Arab American efforts to secure political empowerment in the U.S. Through voter registration, education and mobilization, AAI has moved Arab Americans into the political mainstream. For the past three decades, Dr. Zogby has been involved in a full range of Arab American issues. A co-founder and chairman of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign in the late 1970s, he later co-founded and served as the Executive Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. In 1982, he co-founded Save Lebanon, Inc., a private non-profit, humanitarian and non-sectarian relief organization which funds health care for Palestinian and Lebanese victims of war, and other social welfare projects in Lebanon. In 1985, Zogby founded AAI.

In 1993, following the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord in Washington, he was asked by Vice President Al Gore to lead Builders for Peace, a private sector committee to promote U.S. business investment in the West Bank and Gaza. In his capacity as co-president of Builders, Zogby frequently traveled to the Middle East with delegations led by Vice President Gore and late Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown. In 1994, with former U.S. Congressman Mel Levine, his colleague as co-president of Builders, Zogby led a U.S. delegation to the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian agreement in Cairo. Zogby also chaired a forum on the Palestinian economy at the Casablanca Economic Summit in 1994. After 1994, through Builders, Zogby worked with a number of US agencies to promote and support Palestinian economic development, including AID, OPIC, USTDA, and the Departments of State and Commerce.

Dr. Zogby has also been personally active in U.S. politics for many years. Most recently, Zogby was elected a co-convener of the National Democratic Ethnic Coordinating Committee (NDECC), an umbrella organization of Democratic Party leaders of European and Mediterranean descent. On September 24, 1999, the NDECC elected Dr. James Zogby as its representative to the DNC's Executive Committee.

A lecturer and scholar on Middle East issues, U.S.-Arab relations, and the history of the Arab American community, Dr. Zogby appears frequently on television and radio. He has appeared as a regular guest on all the major network news programs. After hosting the popular "A Capital View" on the Arab Network of America for several years, he now hosts "Viewpoint with James Zogby" on Abu Dhabi Television, LinkTV, Dish Network, and DirecTV [broadcast schedule].

Since 1992, Dr. Zogby has also written a weekly column on U.S. politics for the major newspapers of the Arab world. The column, Washington Watch, is currently published in 14 Arab countries. He has authored a number of books including two recent publications, "What Ethnic Americans Really Think" and "What Arabs Think: Values, Beliefs and Concerns."

Dr. Zogby has testified before U.S. House and Senate committees, has been guest speaker on a number of occasions in the Secretary's Open Forum at the U.S. Department of State, and has addressed the United Nations and other international forums. He recently received a Distinguished Public Service Award from the U.S. Department of State "in recognition of outstanding contributions to national and international affairs." Dr. Zogby is also active professionally beyond his involvement with the Arab American community. He currently serves on the Human Rights Watch Middle East Advisory Committee and on the national advisory boards of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigration Forum, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In January 2001, he was selected by the President to be a member of the Central Asian-American Enterprise Fund and serves on its Board of Directors. Additionally, he recently attained a position with polling firm Zogby International as Senior Analyst.

In 1975, Dr. Zogby received his doctorate from Temple University's Department of Religion, where he studied under the Islamic scholar Dr. Ismail al-Faruqi. He was a National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellow at Princeton University in 1976, and on several occasions was awarded grants for research and writing by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Defense Education Act, and the Mellon Foundation. Dr. Zogby received a Bachelor of Arts from Le Moyne College. In 1995, Le Moyne awarded Zogby an honorary doctoral of laws degree, and in 1997 named him the college's outstanding alumnus.

Dr. Zogby is married to Eileen Patricia McMahon and is the father of five children. Zogby's mother, Cecilia Ann, was a woman committed to religion, family, education, and service of others.