Specialists

Dr. Nazeer Ahmed
Executive Director
American Institute of Islamic History & Culture

Ziad Alahdad
Former Director of Operations
The World Bank

Zeyno Baran
Director, Center for Eurasian Policy
Senior Fellow (on leave)
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters

Dr. Vincent Cornell
Professor, Middle East and Islamic Studies
Emory University

Mehreen Farooq
Research Fellow
World Organization for Resource Development & Education

Hillel Fradkin
Director, Center for Islam, Democracy & the Future of the Muslim World
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute (Washington, D.C. Headquarters)

Husain Haqqani
Director for South and Central Asia
Hudson Institute

Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
Chairman
Islamic Supreme Council of America

Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Chairman
International Institute of Advance Islamic Studies Malaysia

Dr. Hedieh Mirahmadi
President
World Organization for Resource Development & Education

Mohamed Nassir
Managing Director
Simply Islam

Dr. Samantha Ravich
Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group and
Co-Chair of the National Commission for Review of Research and Development Programs in the IC

Waleed Ziad
PhD Candidate in History
Yale University

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