Network of International Ambassadors

The Network for Dialogue is advised and assisted by a group of prominent “International Ambassadors” drawn from throughout the world. These individuals’ professional affiliations are provided below for identification purposes only.

Le Réseau pour le dialogue est conseillé et soutenu par un groupe d’« ambassadeurs internationaux » issus des quatre coins du monde. Les affiliations professionnelles sont mentionnées à titre indicatif uniquement. 

يتم تقديم المشورة والمساعدة لشبكة الحوار من قبل مجموعة من “السفراء الدوليين” البارزين من جميع أنحاء العالم. الانتماءات المهنية لهؤلاء الأفراد متوفرة أدناه بهدف تحديد الهوية فقط.

Hafida Benchehida
Founding Member, Mediterranean Women Mediators Network;
Member, International Civil Society Action Network’s Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership
Algiers, Algeria

Nathan J. Brown, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
Washington, D.C.

Scott Carpenter
Managing Director, Jigsaw
New York, New York

Youssef Cherif
Director, Columbia Global Center Tunis
Tunis, Tunisia

Khaled Fahmy, Ph.D.
Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle East History, Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts

Dr. H.A. Hellyer
Senior Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute;
Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
London, England

Ambassador Frederic C. Hof
Senior Fellow
Bard College Center for Civic Engagement
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

Mira Al Hussein, Ph.D.
Associate Fellow – University of Edinburgh
Scotland, United Kingdom

Azza Karam, Ph.D.
President and CEO, Lead Integrity;
Director of the Kahane UN Program, Occidental College
Washington, DC, and New York, NY

Salam Kawakibi
Director, Arab Centre for Research and Political Studies
Paris, France

Heba El Kholy, Ph.D.
Independent Adviser;
Former United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative
The Hague, The Netherlands

Bassma Kodmani, Ph.D. (in memoriam)
Independent Scholar;
Member, Syrian Constitutional Committee;
Founder, Arab Reform Initiative
Paris, France

Ivan Krastev
Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies;
Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM)
Vienna, Austria

Haykel Ben Mahfoudh, Ph.D.
Professor of Law, Faculty of Legal, Political, and Social Sciences, University of Carthage;
Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Atlantic Council
Tunis, Tunisia

Ambassador Marc Otte
Special Envoy for Syria, Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Vice President, European Institute of Peace;
Senior Associate Fellow, Egmont Institute
Brussels, Belgium

Her Excellency Ana Palacio
Former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs;
Founding Partner, Palacio y Asociados
Madrid, Spain

Friar Jan Peters
Former President, Pax Christi Netherlands; 
Former Treasurer, Pax Christi International;
Former President, Netherlands Institute for the Middle East
Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Regan Ralph
Founder and Former President and CEO, 
Fund for Global Human Rights
Alexandria, VA

Doug Rutzen
President and CEO, 
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Washington, D.C.

Wael Sawah
Executive Director, Pro-Justice; 
Editor-in-Chief, The Syrian Observer;
San Diego, California

Ambassador Charlotta Sparre
Deputy Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Stockholm, Sweden

Nathalie Tocci, Ph.D.
Director, Istituto Affari Internazionali
Rome, Italy

Liv Tørres, Ph.D.
International Secretary, Norwegian Confederation of Labor (LO-Norway)
Oslo, Norway

Ivan Vejvoda
Senior Researcher, Austrian Institute for International Affairs
Vienna, Austria
Chair of the Board, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory
Belgrade, Serbia

Marjolein Wijninckx
Head of the West Asia and North Africa Programme
Impunity Watch
Utrecht, The Netherlands

Management Team 

Stephen R. Grand, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Atlanta, Georgia

Francesca Caruso
Independent Consultant on Peace & Security and Conflict Mediation
Rome, Italy

Silvia Colombo, Ph.D.
Associate Fellow, Africa, Mediterranean and Middle East Programme
Istituto Affari Internazionali
Rome, Italy