Advisory Board
Dr. Ilya Altman
Co-chairman of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center (Moscow, Russia) and Director of the International Educational and Research Center of the Holocaust and Genocides History at the Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia)
Dr. Manisha Desai
Manisha Desai is a Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her areas of research and teaching include: transnational feminisms, gender and globalization, human rights, and contemporary Indian society. Currently, she’s working on a book manuscript on the Changing Contours of the Women’s Movement in India.
As a scholar activist, she has been involved in advocacy and activism around social and gender justice issues at the United Nations, as SWS’s representative to its Economic and Social Council, at the World Social Forum, and US Social Forum. Since 2017 she has served on the Everywoman Everywhere’s Global Treaty to End Violence Against Women.
ELIF SELIN CALIK
Elif Selin Calik is a journalist and independent researcher based in London. Best known for her work on Turkey’s foreign policy, global diplomacy, and energy diplomacy, Calik is also an activist on renewable energy and climate change. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies from the International University of Sarajevo and a second MA in Global Diplomacy from SOAS at the University of London. She is currently PhD Candidate on Energy Diplomacy in London. She is also a regular contributor to publications like TRT World, Daily Sabah, Yeni Safak, and Middle East Monitor.
Mr. Osman el-zein
Diplomatic attaché at the World Fund for Development and Planning, Member of the London Diplomatic Association, and Chairman of the Zein Group
Dr. Karim Ifrak
President-Founder of the Institut Français des Etudes Académiques
Dr. James E. Jennings
Founder and President of Conscience International
mr. victor Ochen
Advisor to the High Commissioner of Human Rights and Nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize
Dr. Mehmet Ozkan
Executive Director of Maarif Foundation USA in New York and Senior Fellow with the Center for Global Policy in Washington DC
Dr. Sonja Regler
Independent Scholar
Dr. Micheael J. Thompson
Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University
Founder and Editor of Logos: A Journal of Contemporary Politics and Culture
Mr. Thierry Valle
Director of CAP Freedom of Conscience
Dr. Suisheng (Sam) Zhao
Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies
Barbara Bertocin
Editor of Una Citta (Italy)
Tamas Krausz
Editor of Ezmelet (Hungary)
Dale Irvin
President of New York Theological Seminary
Kurt Jacobsen
Editor: Free Associations