Forum Agenda and Participant Biographies - Brookings Institution

low at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at
Brookings. In 2010, he also served as a Senior Advisor
in the Office of Policy at the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security. During his career, he has worked
for or advised various international organizations,
including the World Bank, the World Economic Forum,
the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe, and UNICEF. In 2000, he helped establish
the U.S. Department of Defense Near East South Asia
Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense
University. He earned his master’s degree from Princeton
University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public
and International Affairs.
William J. antholis
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William J. Antholis is Managing
Director of The Brookings Institution
and a Senior Fellow in Governance
Studies. Along with Brookings
President Strobe Talbott, he is
the author of Fast Forward: Ethics
and Politics in the Age of Global Warming (Brookings
Press). He leads the Brookings effort “How We’re
Doing: A Composite Index of Global and National
Trends” and co-led the Institution’s Opportunity ‘08
project. Prior to Brookings, he was Director of Studies
and Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, an
International Affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign
Relations, and a Visiting Fellow at the Center of International
Studies at Princeton University. From 1995
to 1999, Antholis served in government at both the
White House and U.S. Department of State. He was
Director of International Economic Affairs at the NSC
and NEC, where he served as the chief staff person
for the G8 Summits in 1997 and 1998, and was also
Deputy Director of the White House Climate Change
policy team. Dr. Antholis earned his Ph.D. in Politics
from Yale University and his B.A. in Government and
Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.
Mohammad Syafi’i Anwar
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Mohammad Syafi’i Anwar is Executive
Director of the International
Center for Islam and Pluralism.
In 2007, he was selected
by the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights
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in Geneva as one of five independent experts representing
the group of Asian states. Anwar was a Ford
Foundation Visiting Fellow at Brookings and wrote a
working paper entitled “The Interplay Between U.S.
Foreign Policy and Political Islam in Post-Soeharto Indonesia,”
published by the Brookings Project on U.S.
Relations with the Islamic World. Since 2006, he has
been a lecturer at the School of Post-Graduate Studies
at UIN Syarif Hidayatullah in Jakarta. Anwar has
a Ph.D. in History and Political Sociology from the
Department of Indonesian-Islamic Studies at the University
of Melbourne.
Wadiah atiyah
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Wadiah Atiyah is Vice President
of Middle East Operations for
Laureate Education. Prior to joining
Laureate, he was Dean of Undergraduate
Programs, University
Development, and Alumni Affairs
at the American University of Sharjah (AUS). At AUS,
he was the founding Dean of the School of Business
and Management and served as Dean of Business for
seven years. Under his leadership, the School of Business
grew from two faculty members to fifty-five full
time internationally qualified faculty and over twelve
hundred students in seven different majors including
M.B.A. and E.M.B.A. programs. He has served as Director
of the Masters of Science of Business/M.B.A.
at Johns Hopkins University, where he helped develop
several new programs, including the Business of
Nursing M.B.A. and the M.S. Accountancy. Atiyah
has worked as a consultant with many international
organizations, such as the Panama Canal Commission,
USAID, Bristol Myers Squibb, FDIC, and the
Social Security Administration. He received a B.A. in
International Studies, an M.B.A. in Accounting and a
Ph.D. in Education from American University.
Jasser auda
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Jasser Auda is an Associate Professor
of Public Policy in Islam
with the Faculty of Islamic Studies
at the Qatar Foundation. He
has written a number of books,
including Maqasid Al-Shariah as
Philosophy of Islamic Law: A Systems Approach and