Forum Agenda and Participant Biographies - Brookings Institution

Barbara Bodine
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Barbara Bodine is a Lecturer in
public and international affairs
at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson
School and a former United States
Ambassador. She has over thirty
years experience with the U.S.
Foreign Service, working primarily on Arabian Peninsula/Persian
Gulf issues. She undertook multiple tours
with the Department of State, in both the bureaus of
Near East and African Affairs and as Coordinator for
Counterterrorism. She was stationed overseas at posts
in Baghdad, where she was posted twice, and Kuwait
during the Iraqi invasion and occupation, and as Ambassador
to Yemen.
John p. Boright
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John P. Boright is Executive Director
of International Affairs of
the U.S. National Academies. The
National Academies’ international
activities include cooperation with
national, regional, and global actors
to build the capacity of the science, engineering,
and medical communities to successfully engage in
meeting local, national, and global needs, and to inform
policymaking. Boright has served as Deputy to
the Associate Director for National Security and International
Affairs at the Office of Science and Technology
Policy in the Executive Office of the President; Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Science and Technology Affairs
at the U.S. Department of State; Director of the Division
of International Programs at the National Science
Foundation; and Counselor for Scientific and Technological
Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. He received
a B.A. and Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University.
Marshall Breger
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Marshall Breger is Professor at the
Columbus School of Law at Catholic
University of America. He
teaches a seminar on the “Legal Issues
of the Middle East Peace Process”
and has written extensively
on legal, political, and theological issues related to Jerusalem
and holy places in Israel and Palestine. He has
worked in interfaith activity both with the Catholic
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Church and with the Muslim community in the United
States and various Middle Eastern countries. He previously
served in senior positions in the Ronald Reagan
and George H.W. Bush administrations. Among his
assignments, he served as special assistant to President
Reagan and as his liaison with the Jewish community.
Barbara Brittingham
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Barbara Brittingham is Director and President of the
Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of
the New England Association of Schools and Colleges
(NEASC), where she has worked since 2000. NEASC
accredits 233 colleges and universities in the six New
England States and eight in other countries. She was
the founding Dean of the College of Education at Zayed
University in the United Arab Emirates and worked
in Ankara, Turkey, on a World Bank project. Dr. Brittingham
was Dean of the College of Human Science
and Services at the University of Rhode Island, where
she also served as Professor of Education. She currently
serves on committees for the Council for Higher Education
Accreditation, the Global Initiative on Quality
Assurance Capacity (a partnership of the World Bank
and UNESCO), the Higher Education Training and
Awards Council in Ireland, and the Quality Council in
Iceland. She has also worked with ministries and universities
in over twenty-five countries, sponsored by the
Fulbright Commission, the U.S. State Department, the
World Bank, and local governments and universities.
david Brooks
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David Brooks has been a columnist
at The New York Times since
2003. He has been a Senior Editor
at The Weekly Standard, a Contributing
Editor at Newsweek and The
Atlantic Monthly, and he is currently
a commentator on The NewsHour. He is the
author of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of
Love, Character, and Achievement (published in March
2011), Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and
How They Got There, and On Paradise Drive: How
We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense.
Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in
September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street
Journal for the previous nine years. His last post at The
Wall Street Journal was as Op-Ed Editor. Before that
he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle