Prior to his current doctoral studies, Neale completed Oxford’s MSc. in Environmental Change and Management, is a geography and environmental graduate of Trinidad’s University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, and is also a student exchange alumni of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.

She has conducted one-on-one interviews with Nobel Peace-Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Jordan’s Queen Rania, Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and best-selling author Azar Nafisi. In 2004, she traveled to Bam in Iran for a humanitarian mission after a deadly earthquake. It was her first trip to her native Iran since she left at the age of 12. Asieh was recognized for her work by numerous Iranian-American organizations. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from University of California at Berkeley.

Mounk’s first book, Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2014, and his first academic book, The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice and the Welfare State, will be published by Harvard University Press in spring 2017. Recently Mounk has been publishing about the crisis of liberal democracy and is now working on his next book, provisionally entitled The People vs. Democracy: How The Clash Between Individual Rights and the Popular Will is Destroying Liberal Democracy.

He began his diplomatic career as the head of the Coordination Section for Eastern Europe between 1977-80. At the end of 1980, he was appointed First Secretary of the Spanish Embassy in Yugoslavia After years of diplomatic activity; he engaged in politics and was elected Member of Parliament for the constituency of Córdoba. In 2004, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation; and in 2012, he joined the Global Dry Land Alliance in Qatar and promoted an international treaty for food security in over 15 countries.

He has published several works related to politics, economy, and the electricity sector in the Dominican Republic. In his function as minister of economy, planning and development, he represents the Dominican Republic as governor at the World Bank Board of Governors and as the Alternate Governor at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).  On August 16, 2016, Mr. Montás was appointed minister of industry and commerce by the re-elected President Danilo Medina Sanchez.

General editor of The Norton Anthology of World Religions, published in 2014 in a two-volume hardcover edition and again in 2015 in a six-volume paperback edition, he is currently completing a new work to be entitled God in the Qur’an. At Atlantic Dialogues, he will speak on why international diplomacy, especially Western diplomacy, has historically been reluctant to speak of religion and whether a new outreach to religious leadership at this late date might offer a new route to international concord.

He also held several consulting positions in Brazil, in particular to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Brazilian Military and to the Brazilian oil company, Petrobras. He is a member of the International Studies Association. He has been widely published in issues related to international relations theory, international security and Middle Eastern politics, including the relationship between Islam and the West.

As a producer and director, he won cinematographic prizes adapting the works of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, as well as in television, directing investigative documentaries in ethnography, archeology, and science. He served as vice president in Grupo Televisa until 2001 and has taught sociology and social psychology at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), Universidad Anahuac and Universidad Iberoamercana.   Today, Melo is senior partner and director of Comunicación Sistémica and SILOG (Logistic Information Services).

Previously, Mekouar served as the Moroccan ambassador to Italy, Malta, and Albania, and the permanent representative to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Portugal, and Angola. He was the elected chairman of the Council of the FAO from 2001 to 2005.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from the French Lycée Charles Lepierre in Lisbon, Portugal, and graduated from the HEC Graduate Business School in France.

He holds a Masters in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University and studied Law in the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. He has been Special Adviser to the Mexican Attorney General, international senior adviser to the Mexican Customs Brokers Association and president of Poldesa, a consultancy firm for political affairs for the Western Hemisphere. He is substitute Mexican customs broker and international and national editorialist for El Mañana de Nuevo Laredo.