Fallon, William J.
United States

William J. Fallon assumed duties as the commander, U.S. Central Command on March 16, 2007. Previously, he served as Commander, U.S. Pacific Command from February 2005 until March 2007, and has held several other high-ranking positions including Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command and U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, and Deputy Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff, U.S. Atlantic Command. He has also served as Deputy Director for Operations, Joint Task Force, Southwest Asia in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and as Deputy Director, Aviation Plans and Requirements on the Staff of the Chief of Naval Operations in Washington, D.C. Fallon commanded Attack Squadron Sixty Five embarked in USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, Medium Attack Wing One at NAS Oceana, Va., and Carrier Air Wing Eight in USS Theodore Roosevelt during a combat deployment to the Arabian Gulf for Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Assigned as Commander, Carrier Group Eight in 1995, he deployed to the Mediterranean as Commander, Theodore Roosevelt Battle Group and commanded Battle Force Sixth Fleet (CTF 60) during NATO's combat Operation Deliberate Force in Bosnia. His awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, Navy Commendation Medal, and various unit and campaign decorations. A 1967 graduate of Villanova University, Fallon is a graduate of the Naval War College and the National War College, and has a Master of Arts degree in International Studies from Old Dominion University.

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Fiaz, Rokhsana
United Kingdom

Rokhsana Fiaz is founding director of The Change Institute, a UK based research, change management and strategic communications consultancy specializing in the interplay between diversity, cross-cultural and globalisation. She has over 15 year’s high-level experience in public policy, communications and corporate affairs, and is a specialist in race, faith and diversity. She is the enterprise’s lead director on a major pan-European research study on violent radicalization and has lead responsibility for managing and coordinating the European Network of Experts on Violent Radicalisation for the DG Justice, freedom and Security of the European Commission. Additionally, she heads a pan-European research team currently undertaking a study of best practices of cooperation between Muslim civil society and authorities in preventing and responding to violent radicalisation on behalf of the European Commission. She is also a member of the UK government’s Department of Work and Pensions Ethnic Minorities in Employment Advisory Group, the Department of Communities and Local Government’s National Muslim Women’s Advisory Group, and the International Institute of Strategic Studies.

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Fouts, Joshua
USA

Joshua S. Fouts has over 18 years of expertise in new technology innovation, international relations, journalism, and strategic non-profit management and development. For the past four years, he has worked to help non-profits and governments worldwide understand and establish a presence in virtual worlds and the 3-D Immersive web. He co-founded and directed the University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy and the USC Annenberg Online Journalism and Communication Center. He worked at the U.S. Department of State and the Voice of America, launching numerous new technology and public diplomacy projects. He is on the editorial boards of Games and Culture, a journal of Interactive Media (Sage), and Place Branding (Palgrave Macmillan). Fouts is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Public Diplomacy Council at the George Washington University.

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Fukuyama, Francis
USA

Francis Fukuyama is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, and the director of the International Development program at SAIS. He is also chairman of the editorial board of The American Interest. His book, The End of History and the Last Man was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. He is also the author of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (1995), The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (1999), Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (2002), and State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, (2004). His most recent book America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy was published by Yale University Press in March 2006. Previously, Fukuyama served as member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation; Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State, the first regular member specializing in Middle East affairs; and the U.S. delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy. He was the Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. He holds an honorary doctorate from Connecticut College and Doane College, and is a member of advisory boards for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the Journal of Democracy, The New America Foundation, and FINCA. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in Classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science.

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