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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.
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).
Victor Nee North America
Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor of Economic Sociology, and director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard University. Nee received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Nee's research interests focus on studies in economic sociology, new institutionalism, and immigration.
Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor of Economic Sociology, and director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard University. Nee received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Nee's research interests focus on studies in economic sociology, new institutionalism, and immigration. He contributed influential theories explaining a variety of macro-societal phenomena. He developed market transition theory, which has launched a broad research program on the interplay between market transition and stratification effects. In his recently published book Remaking the American Mainstream, co-authored with Richard Alba, he compares the late European and new immigration from Latin America and Asia to the United States and demonstrates the importance of assimilation in American society.
Edward Nelson North America
Professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1955, and has written six books and sixty articles on mathematics. Nelson’s early work was in analysis—especially probability theory—and mathematical physics. His work in quantum field theory was recognized by the Steele Prize for seminal contribution to research awarded by the American Mathematical Society in 1995.
Professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1955, and has written six books and sixty articles on mathematics. Nelson’s early work was in analysis—especially probability theory—and mathematical physics. His work in quantum field theory was recognized by the Steele Prize for seminal contribution to research awarded by the American Mathematical Society in 1995. He is the inventor of stochastic mechanics, a new interpretation of quantum mechanics, and of internal set theory, a new approach to nonstandard analysis. His work in recent years has centered on logic and the foundations of mathematics. Nelson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) in 1991. In 2000 he was an invited speaker at the Jubilee for Men and Women of Science in Vatican City.
Robert Cummings Neville North America
Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University. He is Dean Emeritus of the Boston University School of Theology, Dean Emeritus of Marsh Chapel at Boston University, and was Executive Director of the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute. He is past-president of the Metaphysical Society of America, the American Academy of Religion, and the International Society for the Study of Chinese Philosophy, and is currently the president of the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought.
Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University. He is Dean Emeritus of the Boston University School of Theology, Dean Emeritus of Marsh Chapel at Boston University, and was Executive Director of the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute. He is past-president of the Metaphysical Society of America, the American Academy of Religion, and the International Society for the Study of Chinese Philosophy, and is currently the president of the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought. The author of scores of papers, Neville has published twenty-two books, two of which have been translated into Chinese, Behind the Masks of God and Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World. His current research projects include a theological approach to sexual identities and a three-volume philosophical theology.
Howard C. Nusbaum North America
Professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Psychology and the Committee on Computational Neuroscience and co-director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience. Nusbaum completed his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo and was a postdoctoral scholar and research scientist in the psychology department at Indiana University.
Professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Psychology and the Committee on Computational Neuroscience and co-director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience. Nusbaum completed his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo and was a postdoctoral scholar and research scientist in the psychology department at Indiana University. Nusbaum has been a faculty member at the University of Chicago since 1986, served as chair of the Committee on Cognition and Communication (1990-1993), director of the Center for Computational Psychology (1995-1998), and served as chair of the Department of Psychology for 13 years. He is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and an associate editor for the journal Brain and Language. He has edited books on speech and language and has published scientific papers on speech perception, language understanding, perceptual learning, attention and working memory, gesture, neuroeconomics, the neurobiology and comparative biology of language, and the role of sleep in learning. He has served as co-principal investigator on the Defining Wisdom Project, which was funded by the JTF to support 23 scholars and scientists studying wisdom and serves as science advisor on the JTF funded Science of Virtues project, which supports 20 scientists and scholars carrying out virtues research.