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