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Ram Chopra
Ram Chopra is retired from a distinguished career in international development and finance. He has served as director of several departments at the World Bank, managing Bank activities in the Middle East, coordinating aid programs of donor countries and reviewing economic policies of developing countries. He has also worked with Search for Common Ground (executive director of special projects) and with the Centre for Dispute Settlement, both in Washington, DC. Mr. Chopra has a graduate degree in economics from Oxford University, where he studied under a Rhodes scholarship.

Jon Cohen

Jon Cohen is director of polling and polling editor at the Washington Post . Before joining the Post, he was assistant director of polling at ABC News in New York. Among other positions, Mr. Cohen has been associate survey director at the Public Policy Institute of California. In 1999, he helped start Roamware, a wireless software firm headquartered in Cupertino, California. He has a master's degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a graduate diploma in international studies and international economics from John's Hopkins University's Paul S. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

Ozgur Karaosmanoglu, Treasurer
Ozgur Karaosmanoglu is senior vice president, investments and international sales, at Raymond James and Associates, a financial services firm in Washington, DC. He has been in the investment field for 22 years and at Raymond James for more than a decade. He manages approximately $200 million for individuals, associations, and small businesses. Mr. Karaosmanoglu is the vice chair of the Tulane University Associates Board (alumni fund raising board), financial advisor to the Margaret McNamara Fund and a founding member of the Washington, DC Chapter of the Turkish American Business Forum. He has a BA in economics and an MBA from Tulane University. Mr. Karaosmanoglu was born in Ankara.

Warren Muir, Chair
Warren Muir is executive director of Division on Earth and Life Sciences at the National Academies in Washington, DC. He has served as president and chair of the Children's Friendship Project for Northern Ireland, Inc, and has hosted fourteen pairs of Protestant and Catholic teens in his home. He was founder and president of the Hampshire Research Institute, director of the Office of Toxic Substances at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and senior staff member at the Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President. He has received O.St.J. and C.St.J. honors from HRH Elizabeth II. Dr. Muir holds master’s and doctoral degrees in chemistry from Northwestern University, with post-doctoral study in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University.

Margo Oge
Margo Oge is director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality in the Environmental Protection Agency. In 2004 she was a recipient of the Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award for her outstanding leadership on environmental transportation issues. Ms. Oge has been with the EPA since 1980 and has held the positions of director of the Office of Radiation and Indoor Air; director of the Radon Division, Office of Radiation Programs; deputy division director of the Economics and Technology Division, Office of Toxic Substances; and section chief of the New Chemical Section, Office of Toxic Substances. She also served as legislative aide to Senator John Chafee (R-RI). Ms. Oge earned her master’s degree in engineering from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. She also attended George Washington University and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Kalliopi Rapti

Kalli Rapti is director of client development at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson LLP. She has been a consultant with Arthur Andersen in the area of privatization and emerging market needs in the financial services sector. Ms. Rapti has also worked in a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization, where she dealt with foreign policy and conflict resolution issues in southeast Europe and the Caucasus. She received master's degrees in international relations and in English from Loyola University Chicago and DePaul University, respectively.

Nevzer G. Stacey, Founder and President
Nevzer G. Stacey founded HasNa, Inc. in 1998. Her background comprises five years as a study director for international labor standards at the National Research Council of the National Academies of Science, where she was also the resident expert on transitions from education to the workplace; twenty years of service as a volunteer mediator in the Washington, DC court system; and thirty years at the U.S. Department of Education, where she worked on school-to-work issues and represented the U.S. in international projects sponsored by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, and the World Bank. She has a master’s degree in international organizations and Middle East area studies from American University’s School of International Service. Ms. Stacey was born in Istanbul.

Officers
Nevzer G. Stacey: President and Founder

Warren Muir: Chair
Ozgur Karaosmanoglu: Treasurer
Christine Zarr: Secretary