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Philip Auerswald and Mirjam Schöning
Philip Auerswald is a Founding Co-Editor of Innovations; an Assistant Director and
Director of the Center for Center for Science and Technology Policy at George Mason
University; and a Research Associate at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University. He can be reached at .
Mirjam Schöning is the Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social
Entrepreneurship. She can be reached at .
Both Professor Auerswald and Ms Schöning welcome your comments and proposals
for partnership.
Acknowledgements
The creation of this special edition has been a collaborative effort involving a half
dozen organizations on three continents.
First and foremost, the Editors of Innovations thank Fadi Ghandour (ARAMEX),
Soraya Salti (INJAZ Al-Arab), and François Bonnici (Schwab Foundation for
Social Entrepreneurship), whose generous offer of partnership extended at the
Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Summit in January 2008 motivated this effort. We
also are deeply grateful to Ibrahim and Helmy Abouleish (Sekem) for their engagement
in this process and their willingness to share their remarkable story. And of
course, the opportunity would not have existed were it not for the support of
Mirjam Schöning (Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship) and Sherif El
Diwany (World Economic Forum).
Dedicated staff at each of the partner organizations contributed substantially to
the effort. In particular, we would like to acknowledge Reem Khouri (ARAMEX),
Regina Hanel (Sekem), Raghda Butros (Ruwwad), and Miroslav Dusek (World
Economic Forum) who provided guidance at every stage. Mohamad Shahin
(ARAMEX) assisted with planning of logistics for printing and delivery.
For superb assistance with the translation into Arabic of material previously published
in Innovations, we thank Rama Kayali and Diala Muheisen of Al Kalima
Translation & Copywriting House (Jordan).
Finally, we owe special thanks to Zina Latif, a doctoral student at George Mason
University, who worked tirelessly to bring the production of this volume to a conclusion,
in the process demonstrating remarkable poise and focus under pressure.
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