Founders: Hossein Alikhani and Jila Faramarzi

President: Hossein Alikhani (dec.)

Princess Wijdan Ali, Vice-President, Jordan Institute of Diplomacy, JORDAN

Costa Carras, Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in South-Eastern Europe, GREECE

Dr Fadhil Chalabi, Executive Director, Centre for Global Energy Studies, UK

Prof. John L. Esposito, Director, Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, USA

Prof. Anatoli Gromyko, President, Russian Centre for Policy Evaluation, RUSSIA

Dr Walid Khadduri, Economics Editor, al-Hayat, LEBANON

John Marks, President, Search for Common Ground, USA

Thierry de Montbrial, Director, Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (IFRI), FRANCE

Ambassador Richard W. Murphy, Council on Foreign Relations, USA

Ignacio Ramonet, Director, Le Monde Diplomatique, FRANCE

Dr Olivier Roy, Directeur de Recherche aux CNRS, FRANCE

Ambassador Abdullah Salah, JORDAN

Dr Gary Sick, Executive Director, Gulf/2000 Project, Columbia University, USA

Sir Cyril Townsend, Former Director, Council for the Advancement of Arab–British Understanding (CAABU), UK

Dr George Vassiliou, President of the Republic of Cyprus (1988–1993), CYPRUS

Professor Thanos Veremis, President, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, GREECE