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Board of Advisors
The Board of Advisors possess expertise in fields covering the full range of the foundation's activities and provide guidance on particular projects and larger strategic initiatives.
Durre S. Ahmed Eurasia and Australia
Chairperson and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Gender and Culture in Lahore, Pakistan. From 1976-2009 she taught at the National College of Arts, Pakistan’s premier arts institution where she was professor of psychology and communication, and director, Graduate Program in Cultural Studies.
Chairperson and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Gender and Culture in Lahore, Pakistan. From 1976-2009 she taught at the National College of Arts, Pakistan’s premier arts institution where she was professor of psychology and communication, and director, Graduate Program in Cultural Studies. An internationally acknowledged expert on gender and Islam, her interdisciplinary interests include the social-psychology of religion, particularly Islam, and she has extensively researched women’s spirituality and issues related to gender, culture, religion, and science in the context of Islam and Muslim societies. Apart from numerous research papers, and book chapters, she is the author of Masculinity, Rationality and Religion: A Feminist Perspective, editor and contributing author of Gendering the Spirit: Women, Religion and Postcolonial Response, and a six volume series on Women and Religion. Since 1995 she has been engaged in researching and teaching socio-psychological and cultural dimensions of Islam and Muslims in Europe at various universities, educational and public institutions. Ahmed was awarded the Fatima Jinnah Memorial Gold Medal by the Government of Punjab, Pakistan, for outstanding contributions to education and research (2008), the Izzaz-i-Fazeelat President of Pakistan Award for Academic distinction (2009), and other international and national recognitions. She has served as a judge for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (2009) and the Templeton Prize (2009-2011). Ahmed holds master’s degrees in psychology (Pb); sociology (Columbia); communication (Columbia); education (Columbia); and a doctorate in communication and education (Columbia).
James Arthur Eurasia and Australia
Professor of Education and Civic Engagement and Head of the School of Education in the University of Birmingham. He completed his masters and doctorate at Oriel College, University of Oxford, and is editor of the British Journal of Educational Studies. He has written widely on the relationship between theory and practice in education, particularly the links between communitarianism, social virtues, citizenship, religion, and education. Recent books include a critical assessment of John Henry Newman’s educational works for Continuum’s Library of Educational Thought.
Professor of Education and Civic Engagement and Head of the School of Education in the University of Birmingham. He completed his masters and doctorate at Oriel College, University of Oxford, and is editor of the British Journal of Educational Studies. He has written widely on the relationship between theory and practice in education, particularly the links between communitarianism, social virtues, citizenship, religion, and education. Recent books include a critical assessment of John Henry Newman’s educational works for Continuum’s Library of Educational Thought. Other recent publications include: (2010) Education, Identity and Religion, Routledge, London, ( 2009) (ed.) A Reader in Educational Studies, Routledge, London, (2009) (ed.) Handbook in Educational Studies, Routledge, London, (2008) (ed.) Citizenship Studies, 4 volumes, Sage, London, and (2008) (ed.) International Handbook in Citizenship and Democracy, Sage, London. Arthur is Director of Citized (www.citized.info) and Learning for Life (www.learningforlife.org.uk) and he has produced a series of major research reports on citizenship and values education which have fed directly into policy decision making at a national UK government level.
John D. Barrow Eurasia and Australia
Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Cambridge, and Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London (2008-2011). Barrow was Gresham Professor of Astronomy from 2003-7 and is the only person other than Laurence Rooke, in 1657, to hold Gresham chairs in two different subjects. He graduated in mathematics from Durham University and received his doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Oxford, supervised by Dennis Sciama.
Director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, professor of mathematical sciences at the University of Cambridge, and Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London (2008-2011). Barrow was Gresham Professor of Astronomy from 2003-7 and is the only person other than Laurence Rooke, in 1657, to hold Gresham chairs in two different subjects. He graduated in mathematics from Durham University and received his doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Oxford, supervised by Dennis Sciama. Barrow held positions at the Universities of Oxford and California at Berkeley before taking up a position at the Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex in 1981. He was professor of astronomy and then director of the Astronomy Centre at the University of Sussex until 1999. Barrow delivered the 1989 Gifford Lectures and is a recipient of the Locker Prize for Astronomy, the 1999 Kelvin Medal of the Royal Glasgow Philosophical Society, the 2002 Premi Ubu for theatre, the 2003 Italgas Prize, the 2005 Lacchini Prize for Astronomy, the 2006 Templeton Prize, the 2008 Faraday Medal of the Royal Society, and honorary degrees from the universities of Hertfordshire, Durham, and Szczecin. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2003, and is also fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He is the author of more than 430 scientific papers on gravitation, cosmology and astrophysics, as well as 20 books, translated into 28 languages, which explore many of the wider historical, philosophical and cultural ramifications of developments in astronomy, physics, and mathematics and the author of the award-winning stage play, 'Infinities.'
Andrew Briggs Eurasia and Australia
Professor of nanomaterials at Oxford University, Briggs currently holds an EPSRC Professorial Research Fellowship. He studied for his Ph.D. with Professor David Tabor in the physics and chemistry of solids group at the Cavendish Laboratory. He came to the department of materials at Oxford in 1980 to develop applications of acoustic microscopy with Professor Sir Peter Hirsch. Briggs was awarded a Royal Society Research Fellowship in the Physical Sciences, and within two years was appointed to a University Lectureship.
Professor of nanomaterials at Oxford University, Briggs currently holds an EPSRC Professorial Research Fellowship. He studied for his Ph.D. with Professor David Tabor in the physics and chemistry of solids group at the Cavendish Laboratory. He came to the department of materials at Oxford in 1980 to develop applications of acoustic microscopy with Professor Sir Peter Hirsch. Briggs was awarded a Royal Society Research Fellowship in the Physical Sciences, and within two years was appointed to a University Lectureship. With the invention of scanning tunneling microscopy he studied surfaces at ever higher resolution, using elevated temperatures to image oxides and semiconductor quantum dots during growth. Following a sabbatical at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, he became interested in the properties of carbon nanomaterials for quantum computing, and these now constitute the focus of the research in his laboratory. He has led several interdisciplinary projects, with major industrial sponsorship from companies such as BNFL, Toppan, Hitachi, and Hewlett-Packard. He has over 500 publications, the majority in internationally refereed journals. In 2002 EPSRC appointed him Director of the QIP IRC, with a brief to build and coordinate a multidisciplinary team of researchers to address key challenges in Quantum Information Processing. Members of his laboratory have shown that electron and nuclear spins in endohedral fullerene molecules and other materials can be manipulated with exquisite precision, and that the memory time for quantum information can be at least a second. This paves the way for using such materials as components for solid state quantum technologies.
S. Barry Cooper Eurasia and Australia
Professor of Mathematical Logic in the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he obtained his doctorate on "Degrees of Unsolvability" from the University of Leicester, working with Reuben Louis Goodstein, and C. E. M. Yates at the University of Manchester. His research follows that of Alan Turing in its focus on the nature of mental and physical computation. It seeks to characterise the computational framework underlying emergence in nature and the causal structure of the real universe.
Professor of Mathematical Logic in the School of Mathematics at the University of Leeds. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he obtained his doctorate on "Degrees of Unsolvability" from the University of Leicester, working with Reuben Louis Goodstein, and C. E. M. Yates at the University of Manchester. His research follows that of Alan Turing in its focus on the nature of mental and physical computation. It seeks to characterise the computational framework underlying emergence in nature and the causal structure of the real universe. Author and editor of numerous books, including Computability Theory, New Computational Paradigms, and Computability in Context, he is a leading advocate of multidisciplinary research at the interface between what is known to be computable, and theoretical and practical incomputability. He is chair of the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee, which coordinates the wide range of Turing Centenary activities, is president of the association Computability in Europe, which is responsible for the largest computability-themed international conference series, and chairs the Editorial Board of its Springer book series "Theory and Applications of Computability." He is an organizer of the 2012 Isaac Newton Institute programme "Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing" in Cambridge.
Gurcharan Das Eurasia and Australia
Author, management guru, and public intellectual, Das is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma (Penguin 2009) which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, ‘why be good?’ His international bestseller, India Unbound, is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global information age, and has been published in 17 languages and filmed by BBC.
Author, management guru, and public intellectual, Das is the author of The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma (Penguin 2009) which interrogates the epic, Mahabharata, in order to answer the question, ‘why be good?’ His international bestseller, India Unbound, is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global information age, and has been published in 17 languages and filmed by BBC. Das writes a regular column on Sundays for the Times of India, Dainik Bhaskar, Eenadu, Sakal and other papers and periodic guest columns for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek. He graduated with honors from Harvard University in philosophy and later attended Harvard Business School (AMP), where he is featured in three case studies. He was CEO of Procter & Gamble India and later managing director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (strategic planning). In 1995, Das took early retirement to become a full-time writer. He is currently on the boards of a number of companies and is a regular speaker to the top managements of the world’s largest corporations. His other literary works include a novel, A Fine Family, a book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm, and an anthology, Three English Plays (Oxford), consisting of Larins Sahib, a prize-winning play about the British in India, which has been presented at the Edinburgh Festival; Mira, which was produced off-Broadway to critical acclaim from New York critics; and 9 Jakhoo Hill which has been performed in major Indian cities.
Celia Deane-Drummond Eurasia and Australia
Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Deane-Drummond graduated in natural sciences from Cambridge University and obtained a doctorate in plant physiology at Reading University prior to postdoctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia and Cambridge University. She lectured in the botany department at Durham University before completing an honors degree in theology and a doctorate in systematic theology from Manchester University.
Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Deane-Drummond graduated in natural sciences from Cambridge University and obtained a doctorate in plant physiology at Reading University prior to postdoctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia and Cambridge University. She lectured in the botany department at Durham University before completing an honors degree in theology and a doctorate in systematic theology from Manchester University. Previously, Deane-Drummond held a professorial chair in theology and the biological sciences at the University of Chester, and was director of the Centre for Religion and the Biosciences. During her scientific career, she lectured both nationally and internationally and published over thirty scientific articles. Since then, she has published numerous articles, books, edited collections, and contributions to books, focusing particularly on the engagement of systematic theology and the biological sciences alongside practical, ethical discussion in bioethics and environmental ethics. She has also lectured widely on all areas relating theology and theological ethics with different aspects of the biosciences. Deane-Drummond is co-editor of a new international journal entitled Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, to be published with Mohr Stoebeck and launched in 2013. Her more recent books include Creation through Wisdom (2000), Brave New World (2003), Reordering Nature (2003), The Ethics of Nature (2004), Wonder and Wisdom (2006), Genetics and Christian Ethics (2006), Future Perfect: God, Medicine and Human Identity (ed., 2010), Ecotheology (2008), Christ and Evolution (2009), Creaturely Theology (ed., 2009), Seeds of Hope: Facing the Challenge of Climate Justice (2010), Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere (ed., 2011), and Rising to Life (ed., 2011).
Bruno Guiderdoni Eurasia and Australia
Director of the Observatory of Lyon. His main research field is in galaxy formation and evolution. He has published more than 140 papers and has organized several international conferences on these issues. Guiderdoni is one of the referent experts on Islam in France and has published 60 papers on Islamic theology and mystics. He lectures widely in the world on these topics. He was in charge of a French television program called "Knowing Islam" from 1993 to 1999, and the principal investigator of the Science and Religion in Islam network of Muslim scientists from 2005 to 2010.
Director of the Observatory of Lyon. His main research field is in galaxy formation and evolution. He has published more than 140 papers and has organized several international conferences on these issues. Guiderdoni is one of the referent experts on Islam in France and has published 60 papers on Islamic theology and mystics. He lectures widely in the world on these topics. He was in charge of a French television program called "Knowing Islam" from 1993 to 1999, and the principal investigator of the Science and Religion in Islam network of Muslim scientists from 2005 to 2010. He is now the director of the Islamic Institute for Advanced Studies.
Heinrich Liechtenstein Eurasia and Australia
Assistant professor of financial management, he specializes in entrepreneurial finance and the management of wealth. Liechtenstein holds a Ph.D. in managerial science and applied economics from The Economics School of Vienna, Austria, a M.B.A. from IESE Business School, and a B.Sc. in business economics from the University of Graz. Liechtenstein is co-author on several publications on private equity and angel investing. His ongoing research in this field focuses on operational value creation in private equity.
Assistant professor of financial management, he specializes in entrepreneurial finance and the management of wealth. Liechtenstein holds a Ph.D. in managerial science and applied economics from The Economics School of Vienna, Austria, a M.B.A. from IESE Business School, and a B.Sc. in business economics from the University of Graz. Liechtenstein is co-author on several publications on private equity and angel investing. His ongoing research in this field focuses on operational value creation in private equity. He is co-leading The Family Office Research Project, which is a cross-continental effort within the Wharton Global Family Alliance that aims to serve global families by researching and sharing best practices of globally influential family enterprises, and in establishing a framework for understanding the evolution of family offices. He lectures in the M.B.A. and Executive Programs. As a consultant, he collaborated with leading families and financial institutions and serves on the board of three family-controlled companies. Prior to his academic career, he was engaged in the family owned Liechtenstein Global Trust (LGT) dealing with ultra high-net-worth individuals. He also advised families within the Boston Consulting Group and established and sold two successful businesses.
Aref Ali Nayed Eurasia and Australia
Founder and director of Kalam Research & Media (KRM), he currently lectures on Islamic theology, logic, and spirituality at the restored Uthman Pasha Madrasa in Tripoli, Libya, and supervises graduate students at the Islamic Call College there. He is senior advisor to the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme, and a senior fellow of the Royal Aal Al-Bayt Institute in Jordan. He has recently been appointed to the board of the C-1 Global Dialogue Foundation and is co-chair of its Education Commission.
Founder and director of Kalam Research & Media (KRM), he currently lectures on Islamic theology, logic, and spirituality at the restored Uthman Pasha Madrasa in Tripoli, Libya, and supervises graduate students at the Islamic Call College there. He is senior advisor to the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme, and a senior fellow of the Royal Aal Al-Bayt Institute in Jordan. He has recently been appointed to the board of the C-1 Global Dialogue Foundation and is co-chair of its Education Commission. He was a professor at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (Rome), and the International Institute for Islamic Thought and Civilization (Malaysia). He also has headed an information technology company. Nayed received his B.Sc. in engineering, M.A. in the philosophy of science, and a Ph.D. in hermeneutics from the University of Guelph (Canada). He also studied at the University of Toronto and the Pontifical Gregorian University. He has been involved in various Inter-Faith initiatives since 1987, including the recent “A Common Word” process, and has authored several scholarly works including, co-authored with Jeff Mitscherling and Tanya Ditommaso, The Author’s Intention (Lexington Books, 2004) and his recent book, Operational Hermeneutics: Interpretation as the Engagement of Operational Artifacts (KRM, 2011). His forthcoming books include Catholic Engagements: A Muslim Theologian’s Journey in Muslim-Catholic Dialogue (KRM) and Future of Muslim Theology (to be published by Blackwell in parallel with Future of Jewish Theology by Stephen Kepnes and Future of Christian Theology by David F. Ford).