Mayer Award Recipients

The Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, between September 2017 and September 2018, H. E. Miroslav Lajčák served as the President of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly. He is also serving his fourth term as the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic. Mr. Lajčák has dedicated his professional life to diplomatic service, representing both the Slovak Re- public and the international community. He joined the foreign service in 1988 and has held various diplomatic positions since, including Slovak Ambassador to Japan, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Albania and Executive Assistant to the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Balkans. A key gure in the mediation of the post-con ict crises in the Western Balkans, Mr. Lajčák negotiated, organized and supervised on behalf of the European Union the 2006 referendum on the independence of Montenegro. From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Lajčák served as High Representative of the International Community and European Union Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Between 2010 and 2012, he helped to shape the newly formed diplomatic service of the European Union, the European External Action Service, as its Manag- ing Director for Europe and Central Asia. From April 2012 to March 2016, Mr. Lajčák served as Slovakia’s Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister and was reappointed for his third and fourth term as the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic in 2016 and 2018 respectively. Mr. Lajčák is a graduate of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations and has a law degree from the Comenius University in Bratislava. He has received several state honors, including the Order of the Yugoslav Star, 1st Class (2005, the Order of Honor of the Republic of Moldova (2014), and the Order of the Montenegrin Great Star (2016).

Richard Haass is in his fourteenth year as president of the Council on Foreign Relations, the preeminent independent, nonpartisan organization in the United States devoted to issues of foreign policy and international relations. He has served as the senior Middle East advisor to President George H.W. Bush and as a principal advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell. He was also U.S. coordinator for policy toward the future of Afghanistan and the U.S. envoy to both the Cyprus and Northern Ireland peace talks. A recipient of the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award, the Presidential Citizens Medal, and the Tipperary International Peace Award, Dr. Haass is also the author or editor of thirteen books on U.S. foreign policy and one book on management. His latest book is A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order, published in 2017 by Penguin Press.

Nikos Passas is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, and co-Director of the Institute for Security and Public Policy. He is also Visiting Professor at the Basel Institute on Governance; Visiting Professor at Vienna University of Applied Sciences for Management & Communication’s Center for Corporate Governance & Business Ethics; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University; Professor, Distinguished Practitioner in Financial Integrity and Senior Fellow of the Financial Integrity Institute at Case Western Reserve Law School; Head of UN Sanctions Implementation Legal Review Services at Compliance Capacity and Skills International (CCSI) and Chair of the Academic Council of the Anti-Corruption Academy in India. He specializes in the study of corruption, illicit financial/trade flows, sanctions, informal fund transfers, remittances, terrorism, white-collar crime, financial regulation, organized crime and international crimes. He has published more than 220 articles, book chapters, reports and books in 14 languages. His next book is entitled Trade-Based Financial Crime and Illicit Flows. He is a co-author of United Nations Non-Proliferation Sanctions on Iran and North Korea (2016), the author of Informal Value Transfer Systems (IVTS) and Criminal Activities (2004), Legislative Guide for the Implementation of the UN Convention against Corruption, Legislative Guide for the Implementation of the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (2003), IVTS and Criminal Organizations (1999) and editor of Transnational Financial Crimes (2013), The United Nations Convention against Corruption as a Way of Life (2007), International Crimes (2003), It’s Legal but It Ain’t Right: Harmful Social Consequences of Legal Industries 2004); Upperworld and Underworld in Cross-Border Crime (2002); Transnational Crime (1999), The Future of Anomie Theory (1997), and Organized Crime (1995). In addition, he has contributed to the United Nations Non-Proliferation Sanctions on Iran and North Korea: Practitioner's Compliance Handbook (2015), edited a volume on the Regulation of Informal remittance Systems for the IMF, co-authored a World Bank study into Migrant Labor Remittances in the South Asia Region, authored two reports to FinCEN on the trade in precious stones and metals and completed numerous studies on terrorism finance, procurement fraud, corruption asset recovery, anti-corruption authorities, as well as on governance, development and corruption international policy. He serves as editor-in-chief of the international journal Crime, Law and Social Change and associate editor in a number of journals. He served as Chair of the Am. Soc. of Criminology International Division and as ASC’s liaison to the United Nations. He also served on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Criminology. He served as Team Leader for a European Union Commission project on the control of proliferation/WMD finance.

John Bowen is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts and Sciences, Sociocultural Anthropology, at The Washington University of St. Louis. His research focuses on comparative social studies of Islam across the world. His own ethnographic studies take place in Indonesia, France, and England, but he works with students and colleagues in field sites across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. He analyzes how Muslims (judges and scholars, public figures, ordinary people) work across plural sources of norms and values, including diverse interpretations of the Islamic tradition, law codes and decisions, and local social norms. His publications include On British Islam: Religion, Law, and Everyday Practice in Shari’a Councils; “France after Charlie Hebdo”, and European States and Their Muslim Citizens: The Impact of Institutions on Perceptions and Boundaries (co-editor).

Combatants for Peace is a group of Palestinians and Israelis who have taken an active part in the cycle of violence in their region: Israeli soldiers serving in the IDF and Palestinians as combatants fighting to free their country, Palestine, from Israeli occupation. Working for peace at the local level in both communities, Combatants for Peace believes that the conflict cannot be resolved, through military means, by either of the parties.

Uwe Kitzinger CBE. In 1951, Uwe Kitzinger was appointed the first British economist of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, where he became Secretary of the Economic Committee. In 1956, he was elected a Fellow and in 1962 Investment Bursar of Nuffield College, Oxford, posts he held until 1976. He took various sabbaticals during his time at Nuffield: first in 1964/5 to the University of the West Indies as Visiting Professor of International Relations and consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation to advise on training diplomats and economists for the newly independent countries of the Caribbean; in 1969/70 to Harvard as Visiting Professor of Government taking over the seminar on European Politics from Henry Kissinger who had been called to the White House; then in 1970-73 as Visiting Professor at the University of Paris. During these years Kitzinger, became a very public champion of British accession to the European Community and when Britain did join in January 1973 he was appointed political Counsellor to the first British Vice-President of the European Commission, Sir Christopher Soames, who carried the chief responsibility for the Community’s external relations. In 1976, he was appointed Dean of the Management School INSEAD in Fontainebleau, and in 1983 became founding President of Templeton College Oxford. He returned to Harvard as Visiting Scholar from 1993 to 2003. Uwe Kitzinger was active in various other spheres: in 1967-70 he founded and chaired the Committee on Atlantic Studies; from 1982 to 1987 he was founding Chairman of the Major Projects Association of (now 80) leading international finance and engineering companies engaged on macro-projects like the Channel tunnel; he served on the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) 1973-84, the National Council of the European Movement 1974-76 and the Council of Oxfam 1983-91. With his wife Sheila, he founded “Lentils for Dubrovnik” in 1991, a charity to deliver essential supplies to refugees in Croatia. He founded the Journal of Common Market Studies in 1962. He is a member of the IGL External Advisory Board.

Padraig O'Malley is the John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has spent his career helping to resolve conflicts around the world and has written extensively on the subject, including the books Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa, Biting at the Grave: The Irish Hunger Strikes, and The Politics of Despair, one of the New York Times' best books of 1990. O'Malley is the founder of the Forum for Cities in Transition, an international network of divided cities that work together to promote reconciliation, civic participation, and economic development. His new book is The Two-State Delusion: Israel and Palestine, A Tale of Two Narratives.

In September 2007, O’Malley, in collaboration with Nobel Prize winner Marti Ahtisaari’s Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) and the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) at Tufts University, assembled senior negotiators from Northern Ireland and South Africa to meet in Helsinki with their counterparts from Iraq. The partnership was known as “The Iraq Project”; the meeting became known as “Helsinki I.” O’Malley spent six months in Baghdad meeting with members of the Iraqi parliament to arrange meetings in Helsinki. There was a second round of talks in April 2008 (Helsinki II), and in July 2008, 36 leaders from all political parties in Iraq met with the same Northern Ireland and South African facilitators and negotiators. This last session resulted in the “Helsinki Agreement,” a series of principles that became the basis for exploring political reconciliation in Iraq in 2009.

General the Lord David Julian Richards of Herstmonceux GCB, CBE, DSO, DL, is a retired senior British Army officer who was formerly the Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces and military strategic adviser to the British government as well as a member of the National Security Council. Richards served with NATO as a major general, and he commanded the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan as a lieutenant general in 2006/7. Richards became Commander-in-Chief Land Forces of the British Army in 2008 and held this role until 2009 when he was appointed Chief of the General Staff, the head of the British Army. He was appointed Chief of the Defence Staff the following year, retiring finally in July 2013. In 2014, Richards was created a Life Peer taking the title Baron Richards of Herstmonceux. He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. His memoir Taking Command was published to considerable acclaim in October 2014.

Co-Founder Innocence International

Exoneree and Co-Defendant with Rubin “Hurricane” Carter; former Counselor, Timber Ridge Residential Center for Boys; former Correctional Officer, White Post Detention Center

John Artis received the Dr. Jean Mayer Award for Global Citizenship on November 19, 2014.

Posthumous Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award

After being wrongly convicted twice for a triple murder and imprisoned for nearly two decades, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was exonerated in 1985 and we remember him for his incredibly admirable activist work in helping the wrongly convicted.

(May 6, 1937 to April 20, 2014)

Shiv Khemka, Vice Chairman of the SUN Group, is a leading principal investor and private equity fund manager in Russia, India and other emerging and transforming markets. A “Global Leader for Tomorrow” and member of the Global Agenda Council on Education of the World Economic Forumin Davos, he is also member of the Forum’s “Foreign Business Leaders’ Council” for Russia. He is the chairman of the Russia Country Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry, and also a Co-Founder of the Council of the Moscow School of Management, “Skolkovo.” He serves on the Boards of The Wharton School, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, the Eurasia Group in New York, and the International Advisory Council at the International Crisis Group.

Suzanne Massie has been involved in many aspects of study and work in the Soviet Union/Russia for 38 years. Her ability as an interpreter of Russian culture and bridge builder between the Russian and American people has been acknowledged by both countries. In Russia she has been the subject of a documentary film, is the winner of a prestigious literary prize and is an active participant in the cultural and social concerns of the city of St. Petersburg. In the United States her books: Land of the Firebird, Pavlovsk, The Living Mirror, Journey and Nicholas and Alexandra, on which she worked with her former husband Robert K. Massie, have been read by millions. She has worked in the development of art exhibitions with many of the foremost art museums of both the United States and Russia including the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, the National Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum. She has lectured widely in the United States before academic, military, business, government, religious, public affairs, civic and cultural groups. She has been consulted by many members of Congress and the Senate, and from 1984-88 advised President Ronald Reagan, meeting with him 21 times during the critical years of the ending of the Cold War. A fellow of the Harvard Russian Research Center (now the Davis Center) from 1985-97, she has also served on the Board of the International League for Human Rights. In 1991 she was appointed as the only lay member of the Permanent Episcopal-Orthodox Coordinating Committee which has involved bi-annual discussions in Russia and the United States with hierarchs of the church.

Memorial--Accepted by Kirill Koroteev, the senior lawyer with Memorial Human Rights Centre (Moscow). He has worked with the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre on numerous cases lodged against the Russian Federation with the European Court of Human Rights. He was also a charge de mission for the International Federation for Human Rights (Paris) on Belarus and Armenia. He is currently an allocataire de recherche at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.

Ambassador Thomas Pickering is vice chairman of Hills & Company, an international consulting firm providing advice to U.S. businesses on investment, trade, and risk assessment issues abroad, particularly in emerging market economies. He retired in 2006 as senior vice president international relations for Boeing. He has had a career spanning five decades as a U.S. diplomat, serving as under secretary of state for political affairs, ambassador to the United Nations, ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, Jordan and El Salvador. He also served on assignments in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the U.S. Foreign Service. He has held numerous other positions at the State Department, including executive secretary and special assistant to Secretaries Rogers and Kissinger and assistant secretary for the bureau of oceans, environmental and scientific affairs.

Hannah Ashwari is a Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar. She was a protégée and later colleague and close friend of Edward Said. Ashrawi was an important leader during the First Intifada, served as the official spokesperson for the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East peace process, and has been elected numerous times to the Palestinian Legislative Council. Ashrawi is a member of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's Third Way party. She is the first woman elected to the Palestinian National Council.

Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2005 to 2008, he was the lead U.S. negotiator on Iran’s nuclear program; Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University

Founder and Executive Director, Wasatiyya, Moderate Islamic Movement in Palestine; Founding Director, American Studies Institute, Al Quds University

The International Crisis Group (ICG) is a conflict-prevention non-profit, non-governmental organization that carries out field research on violent conflict and advances policies to prevent, mitigate or resolve conflict. It advocates policies directly with governments, multilateral organisations and other political actors as well as the media.

Special Representative for the Southern Mediterranean Region, European Union; former Secretary-General and Foreign Policy Adviser, Office of the Prime Minister, Spain

Founder and International Director, Questscope; Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the Middle East and North Africa, Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship

Jason Clay is the senior vice president of market transformation for the World Wildlife Fund. His goal is to create global standards for producing and using raw materials, particularly in terms of carbon and water. His ideas are changing the way governments, foundations, researchers, and NGOs identify and address risks and opportunities for their work. He brings people together to improve environmentally sensitive practices in agriculture and aquaculture. He has convened industry roundtables of retailers, buyers, producers and environmentalists to reduce the key impacts of producing soy, cotton, sugarcane, salmon, shrimp, mollusks, catfish and tilapia. Prior to joining WWF in 1999, he ran a family farm, taught at Harvard and Yale, worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and spent more than 25 years working with human rights and environmental organizations. Jason, in addition to authoring numerous books on subjects including World Agriculture and the Environment (2004) and Exploring the Links Between International Business and Poverty Reduction (2005), is Founder and Editor of Cultural Survival Quarterly, winner of UTNE reader award for best publication with circulation of less than 30,000, best publication for international news and analysis, and best coverage of international cultural issues.

Since 2004, Laurie Garrett has been a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York. Ms. Garrett is the only writer ever to have been awarded all three of the Big "Ps" of journalism: the Peabody, the Polk, and the Pulitzer. Her expertise includes global health systems, chronic and infectious diseases, and bioterrorism. Ms. Garrett is the best-selling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994) and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Hyperion Press, 2000). During her PhD studies, she started reporting on science news at KPFA, a local radio station.  At KPFA, Ms. Garrett worked on a documentary, coproduced with Adi Gevins, that won the 1977 George Foster Peabody Award. After leaving KPFA, Ms. Garrett worked briefly in the California Department of Food and Agriculture, assessing the human health impacts of pesticide use. In 1980, she joined National Public Radio, working out of the network's San Francisco and, later, Los Angeles bureaus as a science correspondent. In 1988, Ms. Garrett left NPR to join the science writing staff of Newsday. Her Newsday reporting has earned several awards, including the Newsday Publisher's Award (Best Beat Reporter, 1990), Award of Excellence from the National Association of Black Journalists (for "AIDS in Africa," 1989), Deadline Club of New York (Best Beat Reporter, 1993), First Place from the Society of Silurians (for "Breast Cancer," 1994), and the Bob Considine Award of the Overseas Press Club of America (for "AIDS in India," 1995).

Ambassador Jenkins, the State Department Coordinator for Threat Reduction Programs, served as the Chair of the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction in 2012 and 2013. She is the Department of State lead on the Nuclear Security Summit, and she coordinates the Department of State’s activities related to the four-year effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material. Ambassador Jenkins coordinates Department of State Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs and helps to ensure a coordinated approach when promoting these programs internationally. Ambassador Jenkins also promotes international dialogue among the public health and security communities in the area of Global Health Security, including the enhancement of global preparedness and intersectoral partnerships to prevent, reduce and respond to high-impact biological threats. Ambassador Jenkins has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law School. She was a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. During her years at Belfer, she served as an advisor at Harvard Law School’s Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising. Ambassador Jenkins has a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Virginia; an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from the Georgetown University Law Center; an M.P.A. from the State University of New York at Albany; a J.D. from Albany Law School; and a B.A. from Amherst College. She also attended The Hague Academy for International Law.

Dr. Bernard Lown is Professor of Cardiology Emeritus at the Harvard School of Public Health, Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and the Founder of the Lown Cardiovascular Center and Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Dr. Lown developed the direct current defibrillator for resuscitating the arrested heart as well as the cardioverter for correcting disordered heart rhythms. In 1962, he cofounded the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and became its first president. From 1974 to 1975, he presided over the USA-China Physicians Friendship Association, and served as coordinator of collaborative studies with the USSR on cardiovascular disease on behalf of the National Heart and Lung Institute. In 1980, he cofounded the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). Drs. Lown and Chazov served as IPPNW’s first Co-Presidents, and in 1985, they were co-recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of IPPNW. Dr. Lown is also the recipient of the UNESCO Peace Education Prize (with Dr. Chazov), the George F. Kennan Award, the Ghandi Peace Prize, and the first Cardinal Medeiros Peace Award, as well as 20 honorary degrees from leading universities both in the USA and abroad. Dr. Lown is the founder and emeritus Chairman of SATELLIFE, an international non-profit organization that uses satellite and Internet technologies to serve the health communication and information needs of developing countries. Dr. Lown is the founder of ProCor, an ongoing, worldwide, e-mail- and web-based electronic conference that addresses the emerging epidemic of cardiovascular diseases in the developing world.

Peter Piot MD, PhD is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Professor of Global Health. He was the founding Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 until 2008. Professor Piot co- discovered the Ebola virus in Zaire in 1976, and led research on AIDS, women’s health, and public health in Africa. He was a Scholar in Residence at the Ford Foundation and a Se- nior Fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He held the 2009 chair “Knowledge against poverty” at the College de France in Paris.

Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie is an Iraqi politician and was appointed as a member of the 25 member Iraqi Governing Council by the Coalition Provisional Authority in July 2003. In April 2004, in recognition of his astute understanding of the risks and challenges faced by Iraq, he was appointed as National Security Advisor (NSA) by the Coalition Provisional Authority. He held this post for its full five-year term until April 2009, when he was appointed as an MP in Iraq's Council of Representatives (Iraq's Parliament), a role he held until Parliament's dissolution in March 2010.

Susan Bissell, Chief of Child Protection at UNICEF, first joined the organization in 1987 working with the Division of Information and Public Affairs. She holds a Master’s degree from the University of Toronto in law, economics and education and a PhD in public health at medical anthropology at the WHO Key Center for Women’s Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne. She returned to UNICEF in 2001 as the Chief of Child Protection in India then in 2004 she transferred to the Innocenti Research Center where she managed the Implementing International Standards Unit. As member of the Editorial Board of the report of the UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children which was released in 2006, Susan has also been involved in follow-up activities that will advance the implementation of the recommendations of the UN Study.

Jonathan D. Moreno is a Senior Fellow at American Progress, where he edits the magazine, Science Progress. He is one of 13 Penn Integrates Knowledge university professors at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also professor of medical ethics and health policy, of history and sociology of science, and of philosophy. In 2008-09 he served as a member of President Barack Obama’s transition team. Moreno is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences and is a national associate of the National Research Council. He has served as a senior staff member for three presidential advisory commissions, including the current bioethics commission under President Obama, and has given invited testimony for both houses of Congress.  He is a member of the Governing Board of the International Neuroethics Society, a faculty affiliate of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, a fellow of the Hastings Center and the New York Academy of Medicine, and a past president of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He advises various science, health, and national security agencies and serves as a member of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s TIGER committee on potentially disruptive novel technologies.

Steven Pinker, a Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author, is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of many awards for his research, teaching and books, he has been named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World Today and Foreign Policy’s 100 Global Thinkers. Pinker is the Chair of the Usage Panel of The American Heritage Dictionary and has served as editor or advisor for numerous scientific, scholarly, media, and humanist organizations, including the American Association the Advancement of Science, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Psychological Association, and the Linguistics Society of America. He is also a Humanist Laureate, the 2006 Humanist of the Year, recipient of the 2008 Innovations for Humanity Award from La Ciudad de las Ideas in Mexico, the 2008 Honorary President of the Canadian Psychological Association, and the recipient of six honorary doctorates. His most recent book is entitled The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011).

Zainab Salbi is the founder of Women for Women International and served as the organization's CEO from 1993 to 2011. Women for Women International is a grassroots humanitarian and development organization helping women survivors of wars rebuild their lives. Since 1993, the organization has helped 316,000 women survivors of wars access social and economic opportunities through a program of rights awareness training, vocational skills education and access to income generating opportunities, thereby ultimately contributing to the political and economic health of their communities. In its 18-year history, the organization has distributed more than $103 million in direct aid, micro credit loans, and has impacted more than 1.7 million family members. Zainab Salbi is the author of two books; a national bestseller "Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam” (with Laurie Becklund) that documents her life under Saddam Hussein’s rule and “The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival and Hope." Her work has been featured in major media outlets, including 8 appearances on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.

Abiodun Williams is acting senior vice president of the Center for Conflict Management (CCM). Williams leads USIP’s work in major conflict zones such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, the Middle East and North Africa. Previously, Williams served as vice president of CCM, and had primary responsibility for USIP’s work on conflict prevention, Iran, and Northeast Asia. Prior to joining USIP, he served as associate dean of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. From 2001 to 2007, he served as director of strategic planning in the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General. In that capacity, he advised Secretaries-General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon on a full range of strategic issues including U.N. reform, conflict prevention, peace building and international migration.

Amb. Stephen Bosworth is the Dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University, a position he assumed in February 2001. Prior to his appointment at the Fletcher School, he served as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Korea from November 1997 to February 2001. From 1995-1997, Bosworth was the Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization [KEDO], an inter-governmental organization established by the United States, the Republic of Korea, and Japan. KEDO is responsible for financing and building two 1,000 megawatt light water nuclear reactors and annually shipping 500,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, in exchange for North Korea's agreement to freeze and eventually dismantle its nuclear weapons program. Earlier, Bosworth had a distinguished career in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1961 to 1988, including service as Ambassador to Tunisia from 1979-1981 and Ambassador to the Philippines from 1984-1987. Bosworth also served in a number of policy level positions in Washington, including Director of Policy Planning, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs.

Chairman of the International Nuclear Safety Group chartered by the International Atomic Energy Agency and of the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering

Martin Sherwin is Professor Emeritus of History at Tufts University and co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Pulitzer Prize).

Sarah Chayes spent 2010 as special advisor to the command of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, under Generals McKiernan and McChrystal. She has contributed an intimate knowledge of Afghanistan, especially the Pashtun south, to strategic decision-making. In May 2005, she launched an agribusiness in downtown Kandahar , where she has lived since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Its objective is to expand the market for licit local agriculture. Chayes initially arrived in Afghanistan as a correspondent for National Public Radio, covering the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Prior to that, from her base in Paris, she reported on European affairs, Algeria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and the Balkans. She first served in Kandahar as Field Director for Afghans for Civil Society, a non-profit group founded by Qayum Karzai. Under Ms. Chayes’s leadership, ACS rebuilt a village destroyed during the anti-Taliban conflict, launched a successful income-generation project for Kandahar women and the most popular radio station in southern Afghanistan, and conducted a number of policy studies. In 2004, she left ACS to focus on economic development. Chayes’s book, The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban, focuses on events in the Afghan south, from the fall of the Taliban through summer 2005. She has participated in pre-deployment training and military colloquia for numerous NATO, US, UK, Canadian, and French commands.

Sanjoy Hazarika is Saifuddin Kichelew Chair and Professor at the Centre for North East Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, and Managing Trustee, Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) in the NE of India. He has developed a flagship health intervention that runs boat clinics on the Brahmaputra river which reaches a quarter million people on islands in the area. He serves on various expert committees in India’s Planning Commission and has extensively contributed to national and state (Assam) policy formation and literature on dealing with floods and water management. He is an award wining former correspondent of The New York Times and launched and edited The North East Page at the Statesman newspaper between 2002 and January 2007. He also writes columns for other newspapers and journals and is a frequent speaker in India and abroad, as well as at radio and television discussions, on issues related to the North-east. He was a member of the National Security Advisory Board, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) review committee, of an advisory panel for the NE in the National Commission to Review the Working of the Constitution and has held fellowships at Harvard University, Tufts University and the University of Kentucky. In 2006, he was a “Practitioner in Residence” at the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University, which honored his innovation, research and policy advocacy.

Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy is professor of nuclear and high energy physics, as well as chairman, at the department of physics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. He received his BS, MS, and Ph.D degrees from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, and remains an active physicist who often lectures at US and European research laboratories and universities. Dr. Hoodbhoy received the Baker Award for Electronics and the Abdus Salam Prize for Mathematics. Over a period of 25 years, Dr. Hoodbhoy created and anchored a series of television programs that dissected the problems of Pakistan’s education system, and two other series that aimed at bringing scientific concepts to ordinary members of the public. As the head of Mashal Books in Lahore, he leads a major translation effort to produce books in Urdu that promote modern thought, human rights, and emancipation of women. In 2003 he was awarded UNESCO’s Kalinga Prize for the popularization of science. Also in 2003, Dr. Hoodbhoy was invited to the Pugwash Council. He is a sponsor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and a member of the Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists. Over the years, he produced and directed several documentary films that have been widely viewed on national television which deal with political, nuclear, and scientific matters.

Irene Khan joined Amnesty International as Secretary General in August 2001; she is the first female, first Asian, and first Muslim to head this organization. Irene reformed Amnesty International's response to crisis situations, personally leading high level missions to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Israel/Occupied Territories, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Spain, Thailand, the Darfur region of Sudan and Nepal. Irene helped to found the development organization, Concern Universal, in 1977, and began her work as a human rights activist with the International Commission of Jurists in 1979. Irene joined the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1980, and worked in a variety of positions at Headquarters and in field operations to promote the international protection of refugees. From 1991-95 she was Senior Executive Officer to Mrs. Sadako Ogata, then UN High Commissioner for Refugees. She led the UNHCR team in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia during the Kosovo crisis in 1999, and was appointed Deputy Director of International Protection later that year.Irene studied law at the University of Manchester and Harvard Law School, specialising in public international law and human rights. She is the recipient of several academic awards, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, the 2006 City of Sydney Peace Prize, the Pilkington "Woman of the Year" Award 2002, and the John Owens Distinguished Alumni Award of the University of Manchester. She has been voted one of the 100 Most Influential Asians and one of the 100 Most Influential Muslims in the UK.

Ian Martin has worked for the United Nations in various capacities, most recently as Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General and Head of the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) to February 2009, and as Head of the UN Headquarters Board of Inquiry into certain incidents in the Gaza Strip (February-April 2009). He was previously Representative in Nepal of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, (2005-06); Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Timor-Leste (2006), Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the East Timor Popular Consultation (1999), Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (2000-01), Special Adviser to the High Commissioner for Human Rights (1998), Chief of the UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda (1995-96), and Director for Human Rights of the International Civilian Mission in Haiti (1993 and 1994-95). He also served in the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina as Deputy High Representative for Human Rights (1998-99). He was Secretary General of Amnesty International (1986-92) and Vice President of the International Center for Transitional Justice (2002-05).

Bernard Amadei is the Founding President of Engineers Without Borders - USA and co-founder of Engineers Without Borders - International. He is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His main research and teaching interests have initially been in rock mechanics and engineering geology. He was recently elected a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Professor Amadei has been extremely active in publishing papers in both scientific journals and professional meetings. He has co-authored two books and approximately 150 technical papers. Professor Amadei's current interests cover the topics of sustainability and international development. At the University of Colorado at Boulder he directs a new program in Engineering for Developing Communities.

Dr. Sergio Fajardo Valderrama, a PhD in mathematics, was Mayor of Medellín, Colombia's second largest city, between 2004 and 2007. He is currently running for the presidency in 2010. His term governing the city of Medellín was marked by transparency, opportunity, and the dramatic decrease in the annual rate of homicides. He balanced the local budget, used performance-based evaluation to assign the highest staff positions for the Boards of the city, and normalized teacher recruitment for one year terms. Public opinion polls gave him an 80 percent approval rating. He was a member of the National Council on Basic Sciences, the National Commission on Masters and Doctorates, the Board of the Foundation Supporting the Universidad de Antioquia, and Director of the Center for Science and Technology in Antioquia. He also had a career as a journalist, and he was sub-director of El Colombiano and a columnist for El Mundo, El Espectador and the magazine Dinero. He worked on the television programs Operación Ciudad of Telemedellín and Zanahoria of Teleantioquia. Sergio Fajardo participated in the peace process as a founding member of the Facilitating Commission for Peace in Antioquia (Comisión Facilitadora de Paz de Antioquia) during the tenure of current President Alvaro Uribe.

Janice Perlman is the Founder and President of The Mega-Cities Project, Inc. a global non-profit organization with consultative status to UN ECOSOC whose mission is "to shorten the lag time between ideas and implementation." The Mega-Cities strategy is to identify, document, disseminate and transfer innovative solutions to the problems cities face in common. In 1996, UN-Habitat adopted the Mega-Cities approach, methodology and innovations database in creating its "Best Practices Awards." Dr. Perlman has served as the Executive Director of Strategic Planning for the New York City Partnership, which focuses on the use of private resources for public goods. She has served as Coordinator of the Inter-Agency Task Force on neighborhoods of President Carter's National Urban Policy and Director of Science, Technology and Public Policy at the New York Academy of Sciences. She was named Visiting Scholar at the World Bank for 2004-2005.

José Manuel Ramos-Horta is the second President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia, taking office on 20 May 2007. He is a co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize and a former Prime Minister, having served from 2006 until his inauguration as President after winning the 2007 East Timorese presidential election. As a founder and former member of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN), Ramos-Horta served as the exiled spokesman for the East Timorese resistance during the years of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1975 to 1999). While he has continued to work with FRETILIN, Ramos-Horta resigned from the party in 1988, and has since remained an independent politician. After East Timor achieved independence in 2002, Ramos-Horta was appointed as the country's first Foreign Minister. He served in this position until his resignation on 25 June 2006, amidst political turmoil. On 26 June, following the resignation of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, Ramos-Horta was appointed acting Prime Minister by the President, Xanana Gusmão. Two weeks later, on 10 July 2006, he was officially sworn in as the second Prime Minister of East Timor.