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Shibley Telhami
United States
Shibley Telhami is a Nonresident
Senior Fel low at the Saban Center
for Middle East Policy at the
Brookings Institution and the Anwar
Sadat Professor for Peace and
Devel opment at the University
of Maryland. He is the author of The Stakes: America
and the Middle East (2002) and Power and Leadership
in International Bargaining: The Path to the Camp David
Accords (1990), and coauthor of Liberty and Power:
A Dialogue on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy in an
Unjust World (2004). He was an advisor to the U.S.
Mission to the United Nations and to Congressman
Lee H. Hamilton (D-Indiana). Telhami received a B.A.
from Queens College of the City University of New
York, an M.A. from the Graduate Theological Union,
Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the University of California,
Berkeley.
Theophilos
Jerusalem
His Beatitude Theophilos III of
Jerusalem is the current Patriarch
of the Greek Orthodox Church in
Jerusalem. Theophilos was elected
the 141st Primate of the Orthodox
Church of Jerusalem on August
22, 2005. In 1964, he served as Archdeacon for
then-Patriarch Benediktos (Benedict I). From 1991 to
1996, he was Priest in Cana in Galilee, which had a
predominantly Israeli Arab flock, there he also formed
a society called “Nour al Masih” (“Light of Christ”),
which spreads the Orthodox Christian faith throughout
the region. Before becoming Patriarch, Theophilos
served for a short time as the Archbishop of Tabor, having
been consecrated to the episcopacy by Irenaios in
February of 2005. His Beatitude studied theology at
the University of Athens and went on to complete a
master’s degree in London.
Vaughan Turekian
United States
Dr. Vaughan Turekian is Chief
International Officer for the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS). In
this role, he leads, develops and
coordinates the broad range of
AAAS’s international activities. Prior to this position,
Dr. Turekian served as Special Assistant to the Under
Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs,
where he was lead advisor on international science,
technology, environment and health issues, including,
clean energy, sustainable development, climate change,
scientific outreach and avian influenza. He is the twotime
recipient of the Department’s Superior Honor
Award for his work on climate change and avian influenza.
Prior to his time at the State Department, Dr.
Turekian worked at the National Academy of Sciences
(NAS). In 2001, he was the Study Director for the
White House-requested NAS report on climate change
science. He has published numerous articles on the
linkages between science and international policy. Dr.
Turekian received his master’s and Ph.D. in atmospheric
geochemistry from the University of Virginia, where
he focused on applying stable isotopic tracers to characterize
aerosol sources and chemistry in the marine
boundary layer, and was awarded the Maury Prize as
Outstanding Student in Environmental Sciences. He
is a graduate of Yale University with degrees in geology
and geophysics and international studies.
Bridget Welsh
Singapore
Bridget Welsh is an Associate
Professor in Political Science at
Singapore Management University
where she teaches courses on
contemporary Southeast Asia,
comparative politics, gender and
international development. She has edited Reflections:
The Mahathir Years (2004), Legacy of Engagement in
Southeast Asia (2008), Impressions of the Goh Chok Tong
Years in Singapore (2009), Democracy Takeoff?: Reflections
on the BJ Habibie Period (2010 forthcoming) and
Transition or Transformation: Abdullah Badawi’s Tenure
(2010 forthcoming). In 2004 she was a Henry R.
Luce Southeast Asian Fellow at the Australian National
University. Welsh is the former Chair of the Malaysia,
Singapore, Brunei Studies Group and a consultant
to Freedom House. She received her doctorate from
the Department of Political Science at Columbia University,
her M.A. from Columbia University, language
training (FALCON) from Cornell University and BA
from Colgate University.
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