17 results for author: PASS

Işıl Acehan Senior Advisor

Işıl Acehan is an historian and researcher from Turkey. Her scholarly interests are early Muslim immigrants in North America, Middle Eastern immigrant and diaspora communities in the United States, and inter-religious and intercultural dialogue. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. degree in history from Bilkent University, Turkey. She has received a number of scholarships, research grants and residential fellowships including a John XXIII Foundation of Religious Sciences fellowship, Fulbright scholarship, Smithsonian Institution residential fellowship, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities fellowship, Freie Universität Berlin (JFK Institute) ...

Mojgan Rassael Senior Advisor

Mojgan Rassael is the president of Probiz Consulting LLC in the Washington DC area. She has over 30 years of experience in business development working with fortune 50 companies in the United States and small business start ups throughout her career. Mojgan is a certified Quality leadership Facilitator and has extensive training in Quality leadership, Sales leadership, change management and situational leadership process. Ms Rassael has been the recipient of multiple awards of excellence throughout her career. Mojgan holds a bachelor degree in Electrical engineering and an advanced degree in Business administration, focusing on International business ...

David Phillips Senior Advisor

David L. Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Phillips has served as Foreign Affairs Expert and as Senior Adviser to the U.S. Department of State during the administrations of President Clinton, Bush, and Obama, as well as Senior Adviser to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Phillips has worked at academic institutions as Executive Director of Columbia University’s International Conflict Resolution Program, Director of American University’s Program on Conflict Prevention and Peace-building, Fellow at Harvard ...

THE ART OF EFFECTIVE HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS

In the future, I think there’s going to be much more emphasis on local procurement than on the old model of shipping of containers from other countries. I don’t see the old model completely disappearing—there is a legitimate place for excess usable goods, especially new, to be utilized in the humanitarian sector rather than ending up in landfills—but it’s going to be much more thoughtfully and philosophically done going forward.

PASS Webinar

We kindly invite you to attend a PASS Webinar: TURKEY AND THE KURDS: It’s Complicated Featuring: David L. Phillips  Director, Peace-building and Rights Program, Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR), Columbia University Moderator: James Cottrell  Senior Advisor, PASS, LLC Monday, April 16, 2018  I   12:00 - 1:00 pm Click the "Register" button to receive a webinar link and submit questions ahead of the event. For questions, please email us at info@pass-usa.net Background Relations between the US and Turkey are at their lowest point since the late 1970s when, in the aftermath of the Cyprus war, the US ...

James Creighton Senior Advisor

James Creighton is the Chief Executive Officer for Eagle Point Global Solutions, LLC. He has coordinated and executed high-level discussions in Russia, China, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Turkey, Berlin, Belgium and many other locations which have focused on developing locally derived practical solutions to difficult problems. Jim served as the Chief Operating Officer for the EastWest Institute for four years, two of which included performing the duties of the Chief Executive Officer. He retired as a Colonel from the United States Army after thirty years of service where he held key command positions. He graduated from the United States Military ...

Betsy Liley Senior Advisor

Betsy Liley has raised more than $1B for nonprofits and led marketing communications and public policy initiatives for some of the largest, most successful global nonprofits. She’s worked across the education, health, media and animal welfare sectors in 55 countries. She’s also been an award-winning journalist, public policy consultant and professor as well as a nationally recognized innovator. She speaks Russian, is a student of Russian history and co-founded an international export firm that brought quality medical equipment to former Soviet states and then around the globe. An avid traveler, Betsy is a prolific reader, data and news ...