Haass, Richard N.
United States

Richard N. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a position he has held since July 2003. He is the author or editor of ten books on American foreign policy, including The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course (Public Affairs). From January 2001 to June 2003, Haass was Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate to hold the rank of ambassador, Haass also served as U.S. coordinator for policy toward the future of Afghanistan and was the lead U.S. government official in support of the Northern Ireland peace process, for which he received the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award. From 1989 to 1993, he was Special Assistant to President George Bush and Senior Director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. In 1991, Haass was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal for his contributions to the development and articulation of U.S. policy during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Previously, he served in the Departments of State (1981-85) and Defense (1979-80) and was a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate. Haass also was Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Studies at Hamilton College, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A Rhodes Scholar, Haass holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and both an M.A. and Ph.D. from Oxford University. He has received honorary doctorates from Hamilton College, Franklin & Marshall College, and Georgetown University.

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Hellyer, Hisham
United Kingdom

H.A. Hellyer is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick, and Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford. In the aftermath of the July 7 bombings in London, Hellyer was nominated as Deputy Convener of the UK Government’s Home Office working group on “Tackling Extremism and Radicalization.” An academic and policy analyst on Muslim world affairs and Western Muslim communities, he was until recently a Ford Fellow of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. His research interests include West-Muslim world relations, Islamic law and European law and policy, which he taught as Visiting Professor of Law at the American University in Cairo. Writing in mediums from academic journals such as the Journal of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relationsc, to popular magazines such as The Washington Post and Islamica, his academic publications include chapters to a number of books including Islamic Political Radicalism. He speaks authoritatively on his subject areas to forums such as the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe. In his latest book on European Muslims (due to be published in 2008 by Edinburgh University Press), he argues that Europe must come to terms with all of her history, past and present, and that Muslim communities should work to be integral to, rather than simply 'integrated' parts of, Europe. He is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London, and the founder-director of Insight Consultants, a global policy consultancy.

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