Sulayman Al-Bassam
Founder and Director
Sabab Theater
Kuwait

Sabiha Al-Khemir
Art Historian
British Museum
Tunisia / U.K.

Jon Anderson
Professor of Anthropology
Catholic University
United States 

Margaret Ayers
President
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
United States

Tahar Ben Jelloun
Poet and Writer 
Morocco / France  

Richard Bulliet
Professor of History
Columbia University
United States

Joni Cherbo
Executive Director
Resource Center for Cultural Engagement 
United States

Michael Conforti
Director
Francine and Sterling Clark Art Institute
United States 

Rachel Cooper
Director, Cultural Programs
Asia Society
United States

Vishakha Desai
President
Asia Society
United States

Dale Eickelman
Professor of Anthropology
Dartmouth College
United States

Bahgat El Nadi
Writer (Mahmoud Hussein)
Egypt / France

Betsy Fader
Chief Program Officer
Doris Duke Foundation
United States

Sandra Gibson
President and CEO
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
United States

Farid Hafez
Research Fellow
University of Vienna
Austria

Darcy Hector
Program Officer
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
United States

Stephen Heintz
President
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
United States

Frank Hodsoll
Chair, Center for Arts and Culture
George Mason University
United States

Hamid Ismailov
Writer and Head, Asia Bureau
BBC
Uzbekistan / U.K.

Bruce Lawrence
Professor of Religion
Duke University
United States

Theodore Levin
Professor of Music
Dartmouth College
United States

William Luers
Chairman
United Nations Association of the U.S.A.
United States

Mohd Anis Md Nor
Professor of Ethnomusicology
University of Malaya
Malaysia

Sharon Memis
Director
British Council U.S.A.
United Kingdom

Mohiaddin Mesbahi
Professor of International Relations
Florida International University
Iran / U.S.

Kenizé Mourad
Writer
Pakistan / Turkey / France

Zarqa Nawaz
Executive Producer
FUNdamentalist Films
Canada

Farhan Nizami
Director
Oxford Center for Islamic Studies
India / U.K.

Pennie Ojeda
Director, International Activities
National Endowment for the Arts
United States

Samina Quraeshi
Gardner Fellow 
Harvard University
Pakistan

Anne Imelda Radice
President
Institute of Museum and Library Services
United States

Adel Rifaat
Writer (Mahmoud Hussein) 
Egypt / France

Iqbal Riza
Under-Secretary General 
United Nations
Pakistan

Nadia Roumani
Program Officer
Doris Duke Foundation
United States

Neda  Sarmast 
Documentary Filmmaker 
Iran 

Mourad Sakli
Musicologist
Centre des Musiques Arabes & Méditerranéennes
Tunisia

Philip Schuyler
Professor of Music
University of Washington
United States

Anthony Shay
Assistant Professor of Dance and Culture
Pomona College
United States

Faouzi Skali
Director
Fes Festival of World Sacred Music
Morocco

Isaac Solotaroff
Documentary Filmmaker
  United States

Huzir Sulaiman
Dramatist
Malaysia

Ivan S. Weinstein
Officer, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs
U.S. Department of State
United States  

Hillary Wiesner
Director
Islamic Initiative, Carnegie Corporation
United States