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• Abdulwahed Hassan Mohsen Al-Roubaiey
o Governor of Al-Dhalea, Republic of Yemen
• Ahmad Sadri
Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lake Forest
Collage, in Illinois, U.S.A. Author of various publications on Islam.
Choice Magazing selected his book Max Weber's Sociology of Intellectuals
as one of the most outstanding academic books of 1993.
• Alberto Athié Gallo
o Philosopher and theologian. He was catholic priest, and occupied
the Executive Secretariat of the Episcopal Commission of Social
Pastoral; along with the bishops wrote up the pastoral letter of
the encounter with Jesus Christ to the encounter with all. At the
moment He is vice-president of an organization of financial communitarian
services and develops an agricultural project with the farmers of
the State of Mexico.
• Antonio Navalón
o Journalist by profession, he carried out the height of his activities
during the Spanish democratic transition. Creator and promoter of
various cultural programs, such as “Tijuana, the Third Nation,”
the largest open-air art exposition in the world. He is currently
Representative of Grupo PRISA – Santillana in Mexico. Author
of several books on Spanish History.
• Carlos Martínez Assad
He has a PhD in Political Sociology by the University of Paris.
He was Director of the Institute of Social Investigations of UNAM
1983-1989.
• Dong Nguyen Huu
o Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP),
he was coordinator of the Project of Assistence to Electoral Observation
of the United Nations Development Programme.
• Dudley Ankerson
o PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. He has been
a member of the British Diplomatic Service, with stays in Argentina,
Mexico, Spain, and Hungary. He is currently a Consultant to The
British Foreign Office in Latin America. Among his publications,
“Agrarian Warlord” stands out.
• Fariba Adelkhah
o Anthropologist from the National Foundation of Political Science
– Center of International Researches and Studies (FNSP-CERI),
specialist in political sciences on Shiite groups and Islam in oriental
civilizations. Currently researches religious space, public, and
modernity of Muslim societies; women in Islam and political anthropology
of Iran in Shiite communities of the Gulf.
• Farid Kahhat
o PhD in Government, specialist in Latin American security agenda,
compared foreign policy of South America; old and new, the new international
political order. Researcher for the Economic Research and Teaching
Centre (CIDE).
• Gabriel Guerra Castellanos
o Studied Political Science at the Free University in West Berlin,
Germany. International Analyst, political commentator, diplomat
and consultant, with a wide professional trajectory in both the
public and private sectors.
• Gilles Veinstein
o Graduated from the Sorbonne University in Paris. Member of the
Collège de France and expert historian on the Ottoman Empire
and the Islamic world. Co-Director of Turcica, a magazine of Turkish
studies.
• Graciela de la Lama
o Embassador and Academic at the UNAM. Founder of the Latinamerican
Association for Asia and Africa Studies. She is a specialist in
India studies and its relations with Mexico and other countries.
Holds various publications, among them “India as an Emerging
Power.”
• Guillermo Zermeño Padilla
o PhD in Social Sciences from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
of Frankfurt, Germany. Historian, professor and researcher at the
El Colegio de México. Author of, among many others, “The
Modern Culture of History, a Theoretical and Historiographical Approximation”.
General Editor of the Association of European Latinamerican Historians.
• Henry Laurens
o Master in History. He was a volunteer for the National Active
Service at the University of Kuwait. Scholar at the French Institute
for Arab Studies at Damas, Syria. Specialist in Islam, Egypt and
general Arab world studies. He has written various books, among
them “The Palestine Issue, the invention of the Holy Land.”
• Iqbal Riza
o Researcher for the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Religious
Issues at the School for Higher Studies in Social Sciences, Paris,
France. He has carried out a variety of anthropological research
in Saudi Arabia and The Mecca, as well as anthropological research
missions in the Kurd region, Eastern Turkey and Northern Iraq.
• Jan de Vos
o Anthropologist and historian, born in Antwerp, Belgium. PhD in
History from the Catholic University of Louvain. He has been dedicated
to studying the colonial past and more recently southeastern Mexico
in general and Chiapas in particular. He has written several books
on the Lacandona Jungle and other topics related to his stay in
that region. Researcher for the Center for Research and Higher Studies
in Social Anthropology of the Southeast (CIESAS-Sureste).
• Javier Sicilia
o Catholic writer, director and editor of Ixtus, spirit and culture
magazine. Professor of Literature and Communication at the Universidad
Autónoma de Morelos and the Universidad La Salle in Cuernavaca.
He has been editor of the General Direction of Cultural Dirección
General de Diffusion at the UNAM. He has published numerous titles,
among others: “Concepción Cabrera de Arnida, the lover
of Christ”.
• Jean-François Leguil Bayart
o Researcher for the Centre des Etudes et Recherche International
and Sciences Po, who has also worked in Africa and currently Works
on Iran around topics such as identity, religión and globalization.
• Jorge Durand
o Was a member of the Commission of Specialists at the IFE for
the study of modalities of Mexican voting abroad. Anthropologist
and PhD in Geography and Territorial Order, specialist in Mexico-U.S.A.
migratory issues. He is a researcher for the Center for Research
on Social Movements at the University of Guadalajar.
• José Luis Valdés
o PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics
and Political Science, England. Currently Director of the Center
for North American Research Centro at the UNAM. Expert in American
studies and Mexico-U.S.A. relations. Designated by the Senate of
the Republic as Technical Secretary for NAFTA assessment.
• Juan Ramón de la Fuente
o After being a professor at the School of Medicine and director
of the University Health Research Program, he was named coordinator
of Scientific Research in 1989; director of the School of Medicine
from 1991 to 1994; as well as Rector of the UNAM as of 1999.
• León Olivé
o Philosopher, specialist in multiculturalism issues. Researcher
for the institute of Philosophical Research at the UNAM.
• Luis Mesa Delmonte
o Cuban, specialist in international security, and Iran studies.
Researcher for the Center for Asia and Africa Studies, the Colegio
de Mexico.
• Mahmoud Sadri
o PhD in Sociology from the New School University, New York. Currently
Associate Professor at the Texas Woman´s University in Denton,
Texas. Has written numerous books on Islam, Iran, and migration,
including Migration Dynamics: A Theoretical and Substantive Reader.
• Manuel Ruiz
o PhD from the Pontifical Gregorian University, in Rome, Italy.
Was director of the Center for Asia and North Africa Studies at
the Colegio de Mexico and Adjunct Secretary, 3rd International Conference
on Human Sciences in Asia and Africa. Has written numerous publications
on political authority, the Islamic state, the Quran, the Iran-Irak
war, among others. Currently at press is his book Islam and the
West from Latin America.
• Margarita Dalton
o PhD in History from the University of Barcelona, Spain. Her areas
of research have been mainly economic antrhopology, culture and
ideology. Currently is a researcher for the Center for Research
and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology. (CIESAS).
• Marianne Franklin
o PhD in Social Schiences, specialist in social and political theory,
international relations, feminism and postcolonialism. Interested
in interrelations among class, ethnicity and gender in the globalized
world. Researcher at the Universiteit voor Humanistiek in the Netherlands.
• Maricarmen Serra Puche
o Coordinator of Humanities at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México
• Marta Eugenia García Ugarte
o She is a researcher at the Institute of Social Investigations
of the UNAM. She is a specialist in social, political and regional
history. At the moment she develops the project Liberalism and catholic
Church in Mexico (1831-1940), where she studies the relationship
between the liberal and conservative factions and the Catholic hierarchy
of the archdiocese of Mexico.
• Olga Pellicer
o Embassador and Academic. Member of the Foreign Policy Consulting
Commission and Alternative Representative for Mexico in the UN,
Mexican Ambassador to Greece and Austria. Professor and Researcher
at the Colegio de Mexico and Representative of Mexico before the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Recently named by Kofi
Annan, UN Secretary General, as a member of the College of Commissioners
of the UNMOVIC. Currently professor at ITAM.
• Porfirio Muñoz Ledo
o PhD in Political Science and Constitutional Law at the University
of Paris. Politician and academic, specialist in America and Europe.
Has held numerous public offices, among others, Ambassador for Mexico
to the EU. Currently President of the Globalization Latin American
Center, (CELAG), and the Association for State Reform.
• Rosa María Martínez de Codes
o Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, specialist
in Spanish American social and political history, religious freedom
in the Spanish and American juridical norms of the 20th century,
political ideologies, transformations of property regimen in America.
• Shlomo Ben-Ami
o Academic, Israel’s first ambassador to Spain, member of
the Israeli delegation in Madrid for the peace conference, delegation
coordinator for multilateral Middle East refugee talks in Canada.
Former Minister of Public Security and chancellor of Israel. Conducted
secret negotiations with Abu Ala in Stockholm. Participated with
Prime Minister Barak at the Camp David Summit, and lead the Israel
team in Palestinian negotiations.
• Tokiyo Tanaka
She is licensed in Literature by the Faculty of Philosophy and
Letters, University of WASEDA, Tokyo, Japan.
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