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Gordon Brown, Washington, DC
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. Gomes, Oakland, CA
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, New YorkStephen 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, Washington, DC
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 Singer, Washington, DC
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.
Howard Wolpe, Washington, DC
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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