In 2009, he was appointed, keeping his post as secretary general of the presidency, Sherpa for the G20, a forum in which he participated in all the negotiations and summits to date, which has involved holding a very active role in major international economic and financial issues. He has published and translated several books and articles on the Arab Muslim world and its relationship with the West, and has given numerous lectures on these issues.

He is also a member of several expert groups, inter alia: the Kyoto Protocol’s Article 6 Supervisory Committee, the Advisory Board on Economic matters to the French Minister for Environment, and the Goodplanet Foundation’s Scientific Committee.Prior to joining the Caisse des Dépôts group, Benoît worked on greenhouse gas emission verification assignments, particularly in the energy sector and on advisory assignments on the economics of climate change, for public and private clients.

Postings to Cairo and Paris were followed by the Political Affairs Department of the Ministry in Stockholm. After participating in the accession negotiations and in establishing the new working structures of the representation in the first year of active Swedish European Union membership, he became the first Swedish “Antici,” responsible under the permanent representative for policy coordination in the work in the Council of Ministers. From the beginning of 2011 to 2015 he was Managing Director for Americas with the European External Action Service.

He is the author of two books, Utopia or Auschwitz. Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust (2009) and The Paradox of German Power (2014). His articles and papers have been published in journals such as Foreign Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, and Internationale Politik, and newspapers such as The Financial Times, Le Monde, and Die Zeit. Kundnani studied German and philosophy at Oxford University and journalism at Columbia University in New York, where he was a Fulbright scholar.

She has been awarded the Gerald Loeb Award, the George Polk Award, Overseas Press Club Award, and Daniel Pearl Award. Kripalani was an Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has served as deputy press secretary to Steve Forbes during his first run as Republican candidate for U.S. president and as press secretary for the Lok Sabha campaign for independent candidate Meera Sanyal in Mumbai. Kripalani.

He currently chairs a task force funded by the Finnish Foreign Ministry looking at private sector investment to assure food sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa. Kolbe was commissioned in the United States Naval Reserves in 1965 and served for more than ten years before retiring as a Lieutenant Commander. Kolbe graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree in political science, and from Stanford University with a master’s of business administration and a concentration in economics.

Former Television producer for Panenka TV. Opinion leader, publicist, author, public speaker and public commentator. he predominantly write about multiculturalism, migration, islam, Middle East and World Affairs. Author of books on multiculturalism in Europe and the Middle East.

Knopf has also been a senior advisor for the Crisis Management Initiative, a conflict mediation organization founded by former Finnish President and Nobel Laureate Martti Ahtisaari, and a visiting policy fellow at the Center for Global Development. She was chief of staff for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and for the Executive Office for Administration and Finance of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She holds an master’s degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H.

Kifayat served as Secretary of State John Kerry’s acting special representative to Muslim communities, creating initiatives to broaden and deepen U.S. diplomatic engagement with Muslim communities worldwide. As senior advisor to the under secretary of state for public diplomacy and inaugural director of the Global Strategic Engagement Center (GSEC), he led initiatives to help advance to use of social media tools by the State Department. Kifayat Co-Chairs the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Committee’s Countering Violent Extremism Subcommittee.

He was a Fulbright teacher assistant and participated in training for intercultural communication at Stanford University, and has recently joined a Ph.D. research program under the theme “The Intersection of Gender and Ethnic Identities in the Moroccan Tourism Industry.” He also participated in the International Visitors Leaders Program funded by the U.S. State Department and the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is working on several articles and other projects that grapple with urban social change and its connections to larger political struggles and the remaking of material space.