Dr. Andrew Spath is a Senior Professorial Lecturer in the School of International Service at American University. His teaching and research focus on politics of the Middle East, authoritarianism, protest and repression, research methods, and strategic simulations. He has conducted...

Responsible for education and outreach events at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland, and programmer for the Cork World Book Festival held in April each year since 2005. Ann Luttrell's prior experience includes working in the nonprofit sector in the US...

Canada Excellence Research Chair on Migration and Integration at Ryerson University in Toronto. Triandafyllidou held a Robert Schuman Chair and directed the Cultural Pluralism Research Area at the European University Institute’s Global Governance Programme in Florence, Italy between 2012 and...

General Manager at Maat for Peace, Development and Human Rights, and coordinator of the Egyptian national Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation. Ayman Okeil is a development, training and capacity building consultant since 2005, as well as a lecturer and...

Ayman Zohry (Ph.D. University of Sussex) is an Expert on Population and Migration Studies based in Cairo, Egypt. He is the founding president of The Egyptian Society for Migration Studies (EGYMIG). Dr. Zohry is also an Adjunct Professor in the...

Dr Bichara Khader is Belgian of Palestinian origin. He is Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of Louvain and Founder of the Study and Research Centre on the Contemporary Arab World. He has been member of the Group of High...

Baroness Catherine Ashton was appointed as High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission as of 1 December 2009. She was European Commissioner for Trade from October 2008 until November...

Is the Deputy Director of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip), and a lecturer at the University of Vienna and the University of Graz. In 2018/19 he was an Austrian Marshall Plan Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at...

Director of Research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding in Washington, D.C. Mogahed is also President and CEO of Mogahed Consulting a firm specialized in the Middle East. Previously she has also been Senior Analyst and Executive Director...

Professor, with graduate degrees from Cairo University and the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. Dina el-Khawaga spent almost a decade working in international cooperation organisations, including the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundation, and directed the unit of...