Naim, Tanveer Kausar
Pakistan

Tanveer Kausar Naim is a consultant with the Organization of Islamic Conference’s Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH). She is a member of the UNESCO International Advisory Board on Reform of Higher Education and Science and Technology in Nigeria, Member of the Gender Advisory Board of UNESCO, and Member of the Advisory Committee of the International Science Development Network. In addition, she has been hired to perform a Technology Audit for Turkey and Serbia under the 6th Framework program of the European Union. Previously, Naim worked for the Pakistan Council for Science & Technology (PCST), and later served as the first female Secretary of the National Commission on Science and Technology, the highest decision-making body headed by the President of Pakistan. She obtained her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Sussex in 1971.

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Nelson Davies, Kristina
USA

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Nsour, Maen
Jordan

Maen Nsour is Chief Executive Officer of the Jordan Investment Board, a position that he has held since May 2005. The Jordan Investment Board is the institution entrusted by the government of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan to attract foreign direct investments and enhance domestic investments in order to achieve economic prosperity in the Kingdom. Nsour sits on the board of Jordan Dubai Capital (JDC), Jordan Industrial Estates Corporation (JIEC), Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) and Jordan Enterprise Development Corporation (JEDCO). Nsour also teaches graduate courses at the Department of Economics, University of Jordan. Prior to his current position, Nsour was Senior Adviser at the Regional Bureau for Arab States, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in New York and Coordinator of the Arab Human Development Report 2003. During his tenure at the UNDP he was in charge of UNDP's projects and programs in the Arab region on knowledge economy, economic growth, and trade and investment. Before joining UNDP in 2001, Nsour was Director of the Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Planning in Amman, Jordan. Nsour taught political economy and international trade and investment at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA from 1993 to 1998. He was also a researcher at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington, D.C. between 1995 and 1998, where his research revolved around the Israeli economy. Nsour holds a Ph.D. in political economy from George Mason University.

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