Executive Directors
Andrea Bednar Senior Advisor
Andrea Bednar is the CEO of PoP Associates, specializing in organizational integrity. Andrea works with clients to create structures and practices to help individuals, teams, and organizations operate consistently with their values. After 20 years as a performance consultant and master-certified coach, Andrea has designed and delivered leadership programs to thousands of businesses and teams. Her mission is to help leaders focus on and achieve results by operating based on their values.
Farouk Al-Wahab Senior Advisor
Farouk Al-Wahab, A Product of Afro-Asia Institute and Karl Franzens Uni. Graz –Austria is Globally Certified and Experienced Diplomatic and Investments Consultant, Expert in International Relations, Africa / World Politics and Governance.
He is well endowed and fairly balanced in African and International Security Affairs and State Protocols.
He is very knowledgeable in the Training of Non-Career Diplomats from The Political Sphere with focus on capacity building of Africa Future Diplomats, Diplomacy Risk Control and Management.
His Corporate and Diplomacy ...
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 Foundat...
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 ...
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 Univers...
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 ...
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 ...
James H. Cottrell, Jr. (“Chip”) Senior Advisor
James "Chip" Cottrell is a retired Partner with Deloitte - USA, who most recently served as Deloitte’s Global Chief Ethics Officer. Chip has extensive global experience in a broad array of business operations, consulting and accounting, including forensics. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the USA and China, a UK Chartered Accountant, and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He has also served in a number of roles focused on anti-corruption issues, including co-chair of the United Nations Global Compact Committee on Anti-Corruption, the B-20 (business framew...
Mike Staresinic Senior Advisor
Mike is a leader of change in large-scale organizational transformation. Mike has written and edited three books on change and international affairs. He is also one of Change Leader’s global network of 125 leading practitioners of change. Mike’s Masters’ degree at HEC Paris and Said School of Business at the University of Oxford, UK, focused on the role of external change agents in large scale organizational transformation. Mike is also an international development leader, helping to develop strong civil societies and reform governments in 40 countries. He has worked ...
