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Board of Directors
Our board, responsible for guiding our direction, strategy and future projects
Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
President & Founder Ideas Beyond Borders
Sam Hershey
Chairman of the Board & Attorney at White & Case
Melissa Chen
Managing Director & Board Member
Steven Pinker
Board Member & Professor at Harvard University
Dan Johnson
Board Member, CEO & Chairman of AFS
Brady Forrest
Board Member, Head of Business Development at MobileCoin
Nick Gillespie
Board Member, Editor-at-large at Reason
Our Advisory Board
Our acclaimed advisors offer an extraordinary breadth of expertise across several fields
Vinicius Fortuna
Censorship and digital security expert
Sam Vaghar
Social Entrepreneur & Executive Director
Michael Trollan
Renowned Technology Expert
Aaron Louis
Director of Audio Visual at the New York Museum of Modern Art
Bob Pearson
CEO, The Bliss Group
Jeffrey Flier
Former Dean of Harvard Medical School
Cynthia Schneider
Former US Ambassador to the Netherlands
Anthony Amore
Author & Security/Investigations Expert
Merete Riisager
Former Danish Minister of Education
Laith Al-Shawaf
Professor of Psychology & Content Advisor
Natalie Khazaal
Expert on Disenfranchisement, Media and Languages in the Arab World
Omar Mohammed
Historian and Author of the Mosul Eye
Hugo Williams
Templar Advisors
Alex Gladstein
Chief Strategy Officer, Human Rights Foundation
Alberto Fernandez
Vice President - MEMRI
Tom G. Palmer
Executive Vice President for International Programs at Atlas Network
Alexander McCobin
Co-Founder & General Partner, Liberty Ventures
Jacob Mchangama
Founder & Director, Justitia
Mohammed Soliman
Director, Middle East Institute