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Hady Amr is a policy analyst, author, and diplomat with a career focused on the Middle East. He served as United States deputy special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations from 2014 to 2017. His areas of expertise include Arab-Israeli conflict, American foreign policy in the Middle East, Sunni-Shi'a relations, and economic and social development in the Arab World. 

Mona Atia is assistant professor of geography and international affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Her areas of expertise include Islamic charity and finance, philanthropy and humanitarianism, housing/urban development, the production of poverty knowledge, and the spatial politics of marginalization.

Roksana Bahramitash is a visiting scholar at the University of Montreal, Canada, with the Canada Research Chair of Islam, Pluralism and Globalization. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from McGill and has focused on gender, political economy, and Islam.

Noureddine Benmalek works for the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (Haute Autorité de la communication Audiovisuelle) in Morocco, where he has focused on overseeing communications and work to control radio and television content deemed dangerous to children or public safety.

Patrice Brodeur is an associate professor in the Faculty of Theology and the Sciences of Religions at the University of Montreal, as well as senior adviser at the International Dialogue Centre in Vienna, Austria. He has over 30 years of experience in interreligious and intercultural dialogue.

Amadou Boubacar Cissé is a politician from Niger, serving as prime minister in 1995 and December 1996 to November 1997. He was also minister of state for planning, regional development, and community development and minister of state for the economy, finances, and planning. In addition, he has worked for the Islamic Development Bank and World Bank.

Dr. Paul Dhalla is the director of research at the Aga Khan Development Network, where he was coordinator of diplomatic affairs for 2003 to 2017. Dhalla is an expert on the political and legal protection of minorities, international development, and international law and diplomacy.

Saad Eddin Ibrahim is a prominent Egyptian-American sociologist and human rights and democracy activist. He was a strong critic of former president Hosni Mubarak and faced prison after monitoring the 2000 election. He was awarded the Ion Ratiu Democracy Lecture Prize at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2006.