Dr.
Mukesh Aghi
Mukesh Aghi is the first Chief Executive Officer of Universitas
21 Global, an online graduate business school based in Singapore,
and affiliated with institutions like the University of Virginia,
McGill University and the University of Edinburgh. Previously,
Dr. Aghi successfully established Ariba Corporation in the Asia
Pacific region. He also managed strategic outsourcing for IBM
out of Singapore and served as President of IBM India. Dr Aghi
spent five years with JD Edwards in Japan, most recently as
Vice President Asia Pacific. He also served as a senior fellow
in the US House of Representatives. Dr Aghi has a PhD in International
Relations from the Claremont Graduate School and an MBA in International
Marketing from Andrews University. He received his Bachelor's
degree from Middle East College in Beirut, Lebanon. He was recognised
as an Esquire magazine "Young Leader of Tomorrow"
in 1984 and has since received the Star of India and Asian Leader
awards. |
Omar
Amanat
Investor Omar S. Amanat is a major shareholder in eTrade, the
online brokerage firm. Previously he was the founder, CEO and
majority shareholder of Tradescape Corp, a brokerage and technology
firm which he sold to eTrade in 2002. Mr. Amanat co-founded
CyberBlock, the predecessor of CyberTrader, Inc., which was
acquired by Charles Schwab in 2000. Mr. Amanat is the recipient
of the Albert P. Einstein Technology award for outstanding corporate
citizenship and sits on the Board of Trustees for the Harlem
Youth Development Foundation. He was strategic advisor to Bridges
TV, the first Muslim American cable and satellite channel in
the United States, launched in the summer of 2004. Mr. Amanat
attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School
of Business and he currently sits on the Board of Advisors for
Wharton's Entrepreneurial Council. |
Caroline
J. Croft
Caroline Croft currently works as a policy advisor in the U.S.
Department of State. She has served as the executive director
of the US Mission to the United Nations, director of Arts America,
and with the White House Millennium Council in the Clinton Administration.
Prior to the White House, she worked as the executive director
of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation, the executive
director of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, director
of international programs for the Congressional Human Rights
Foundation and as an advisor in the US Senate. |
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M.
Shafik Gabr
M. Shafik Gabr is the Chairman of the Executive Board of Egypt’s
International Economic Forum, and the Chairman & Managing
Director of Artoc Group For Investment & Development, a
Cairo-based diversified business group that operates in the
Middle East, Europe and the United States. He is also the Chairman
of the ABC (Arab Business Council) and the COMESA Business Council.
Mr Gabr also serves on the Egypt- US President’s Council.
He is also a member of the Executive Board of the International
Chamber of Commerce in Paris and serves on the Council of the
World Economic Forum in Geneva. Mr Gabr received his BA in Economics
and Management from the American University in Cairo and an
MA degree in Economics from the University of London. |
Matthew
Maxwell Taylor (Max) Kennedy
Max Kennedy founded and currently co-directs the Watershed Institute
in Massachusetts, a group that engages in education and stewardship
regarding urban waterways. He was an assistant district attorney
for 3 years, and has written a book on the writings of his father
the late Robert F. Kennedy. He currently teaches in the environmental
studies program at Boston College. |
George
A. (Jay) Keyworth II, Ph.D.
George A. (Jay) Keyworth II is chairman of the Board of Directors
and senior fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation in
Washington, D.C. From 1981 to 1985, he served as Science Advisor
to President Reagan and, concurrently, Director of the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy, prior to which
he was Director of the physics division at Los Alamos National
Laboratory. He is a fellow at both the American Physical Society
and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He serves on the Board of Directors of the Hewlett Packard Company
and General Atomics, as well as several emerging high-technology
companies. |
Wendy
W. Luers
Wendy W. Luers is the founder and President of the Foundation
for a Civil Society (formerly the Charter 77 Foundation - New
York) and co-founder in 1992 of The Project on Justice in Times
of Transition. Mrs. Luers had a Presidential appointment as
a member of the National Council of the Arts, the board of the
National Endowment for the Arts, from 1988-1996. She is on the
Board of Councilors for the Annenberg School for Communication
at the University of Southern California and the Board of Visitors
of Stanford University's Institute for International Studies.
She is married to William H. Luers, President and Chairman of
the United Nations Association of the United States of America.
Mr. Luers is also the former President of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art and former U. S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1983-1986)
and Venezuela (1978-1982). |
| Fahmida
Riaz
Fahmida Riaz is an eminent Pakistani poet and author whose
work has been translated into English, French, German and
other languages. A committed feminist, she has heightened
awareness of Urdu literature and has also raised Pakistani
female consciousness. She is the president of Women and Development
Association (WADA), a Pakistan-based nonprofit organization
publishing for women and children. She received the Hellman-Hemmat
award from Human Rights Watch in New York in 1997. |
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IN MEMORIAM
Anwar A. Fancy
The late Anwar A. Fancy was a global entrepreneur who served
on corporate and nonprofit boards in many countries. He was
founder and chief executive of the Oxus Fund based in New
York. From 1999 to 2001 he was president of MidEastOnLine,
Inc, an e-business portal for B2B commerce in the Middle East,
with offices in New York and Dubai. From 1997 to 2002 he was
CEO of FEL in New York, a consultancy that worked with clients
from the U.S., Kuwait and Russia. He was CEO of the American
Russian Technology Association from 1992 to 1997, launching
projects and marketing for US companies in the former Soviet
Union. He was a graduate of Yale and The Canford School in
the U.K. |
Ahmet
Ertegun
Son of the former Turkish Ambassador to the U.S., Ahmet Ertegun
founded Atlantic Records in 1947 and made it into an independent
force in contemporary music. He now serves as Co-Chairman of
The Atlantic Group. He is also Trustee of Princeton's Institute
of Near East Studies, Chairman of the American Turkish Society
and Trustee Emeritus of Physicians for Peace. He received his
BA in Classical Philosophy from St John's College, and did masters
studies at Georgetown University. |
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