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Gordon Brown is an author
and retired diplomat. During his over thirty-five year Foreign
Service career focused on the Middle East, Brown served in a variety
of senior management positions. Ambassador to Mauritania
from 1991 to 1994, Brown had previously served as political advisor
to General Schwarzkopf during the first Gulf War. Earlier, he
had been the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis
(1986-1989), and Director of the Office of Arab Peninsula Affairs
in the Department of State (1984-1986.) Still earlier overseas
assignments included Lebanon (1962-63), Iraq (1963-66), Egypt
(1966-69), Paris (1973-76), and Saudi Arabia (1976-78).
In the Department of State he served, in addition to several tours
of duty in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, as Director of
Maritime Affairs (1982-84), Director of U.N. Economic Affairs
(1980-82), Deputy Director of the Office of International Commodities
(1979-80) and in the Office of Fuels and Energy (1971-73).
On retirement from the diplomatic service in 1996, he helped to
establish and was president of the U.S. – Qatar Business
Council. Brown graduated with honors from Stanford University
in 1957 and served three years in the Army before joining the
Foreign Service.
W.
R. (Reg) Gomes is the University of California Vice President
of Agriculture and Natural Resources. As leader of systemwide
programs of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Gomes is Director
of the California Agricultural Experiment Station and California
Cooperative Extension. Prior to this, Gomes was a professor at
Ohio State University and Department Head at the University
of Illinois before becoming Dean of the College of Agriculture
at that institution. Reg Gomes serves on numerous state
and national boards including: the Board on Agriculture and Natural
Resources of the National Research Council; Farm Foundation's
Bennett Agricultural Round Table; and California State Board of
Food and Agriculture. He is Co-Chair of the Joint Policy Council
on Agriculture and Higher Education. Dr. Gomes has been
a Fulbright-Hays Distinguished Traveling Professor in Yugoslavia
and a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
He holds a B.S. from California Polytechnic State University (San
Luis Obispo), an M.A. from Washington State University, and a
Ph.D. from Purdue University, and was awarded an honorary doctorate
by Moldova State University.
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning
correspondent who has reported from more than 50 countries on
four continents. He is also a professor of journalism and international
relations at Northwestern University. During the late 1990s, Mr.
Kinzer was the first New York Times bureau chief in Istanbul.
He traveled widely in Turkey and in the new nations of the Caucasus
and Central Asia, from Azerbaijan to Uzbekistan. Before his arrival
in Istanbul, Mr. Kinzer spent six years in Germany as chief of
the New York Times bureaus in Bonn and Berlin. From 1983 to 1989
Mr. Kinzer was the first Times bureau chief in Managua, Nicaragua.
Mr. Kinzer joined The New York Times in 1983 and was on its staff
for more than 20 years. He came to the Times from the Boston Globe,
where he was Latin America correspondent. Before joining the Globe
he had been a newspaper columnist, an adjunct professor of journalism
at Boston University, and a state government official in Massachusetts.
He studied history at Boston University and graduated with high
honors.
Roberts B. Owen is a retired senior council
in the litigation, arbitration and mediation practices. As a former
legal Advisor of the U.S. Department of State, he has been a member
of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague) He has also
served as senior advisory to the Secretary of State for the former
Yugoslavia, the President of the International Court of Justice,
chief U.S. negotiator in the then-current Pacific Salmon dispute
with Canada, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and
the International Advisory Committee, vice president and director
of American Friends of Cambridge University, and Vice Chair and
chief judge of the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts.
He was awarded the Distinguished Honor award, U.S. Department
of State, The Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public
Service, and the Distinguished Service Award, U.S. Department
of State. Mr. Owens received a BA from Harvard College, an LL.B.
from Harvard Law School, and a Dip. C.L.S. from Cambridge University.
Linda R. Singer, Esq. has been a leader in the field of Alternative
Dispute Resolution for more than 30 years, as a mediator, arbitrator,
lawyer, teacher, and author. Ms. Singer's experience resolving
disputes encompasses a wide variety of substantive areas including
business disputes within corporations and partnerships, employment
disputes in businesses, government agencies, and law firms, environmental
disputes, civil rights disputes, catastrophic personal injury,
insurance disputes, and ADR systems design, training, and implementation.
She joined JAMS, the nation’s largest private provider of
Alternative Dispute Resolution services, in 2004. She has mediated,
arbitrated, and facilitated disputes in a variety of business,
legal, technical, insurance, interpersonal, and public policy
contexts. She also has served as a federal district court special
master. She holds a BA from Harvard University and a J.D. from
George Washington University Law School.
Dr. Howard Wolpe, a former seven-term Member of Congress and former
Presidential Special Envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes Region,
is currently Director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars. A specialist in African politics,
for ten of his fourteen years in the Congress Dr. Wolpe chaired
the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
He also chaired the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee
of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. His other
roles in the Congress included the co-chairmanship of the bipartisan
Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition and the Congressional
Energy and Environmental Study Conference. Prior to entering the
Congress, Dr. Wolpe served in the Michigan House of Representatives
and as a member of the Kalamazoo City Commission. He is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Board
of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Dr.
Wolpe received his B.A. degree from Reed College, and his Ph.D.
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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