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Leadership

Sam Cherribi, Director

Sam Cherribi (PhD, University of Amsterdam) is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and assistant to the Provost at Emory University. He is contributing editor for Global Vision, and Global Vision Africa, magazines aimed at business, government and NGO readers. He has been interviewed in many European, U.S. African and Middle Eastern news media. A member of the Dutch Parliament (1994-2002), African development was in his portfolio. He was also Member of the Assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE) and Member of the Assembly of the West European Union (WEU) as well as the North-South Institute, which aims to bring aid from Europe to Africa. He also served as an observer in the Dutch delegation to the United Nations in New York.

Jonathan K. Gitlen, Institute Coordinator

Advisory Board

Mr. George Vojta, Chair of the Board

Mr. Vojta is a former Vice Chairman of the Board, director, and member of the Management Committee of Bankers Trust Company and its parent, Bankers Trust New York Corporation. Currently Mr. Vojta is the Founder and Chairman of eStandardsForum, Inc., a financial services information company. Also he is a Director of the Financial Services Forum an organization formed by 21 of the nations most prominent, diversified American financial firms. This organization focuses on regulatory, legislative and public policy issues relative to the global financial system. Mr. Vojta is currently a director of The Private Export funding Corporation (PEFCO), Asur Corp., Urstadt-Biddle Properties, Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets, Center for International Private Enterprise, and International Executive Service Corps; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the New York Sate Banking Board, Fellow, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Chairman of the Board of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Financial Standards Foundation, the Yale International Institute of Corporate Governance, the Westchester Group, and the CAUX Roundtable. Mr. Vojta is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship at Emory.

Ms. Sika Awoonor, Director General, GoodWorks International Angola, Lda

Mr. Juan Diez-Nicolas, Professor of Sociology, University of Spain

Mr. John Donaldson, The World Bank

Ms. Maria M. Ebrahimji, Associate Director, Cable News Network

His Excellency Amre Moussa, Secretary General, League of Arab States

The Honorable Ewoud N. Swaak, The Netherlands Ambassador to the US

Mr. Mark van Weegen, Vice President, A. T. Kearney, Inc.

Steering Committee

John Boli: College, Sociology, Chair
Sam Cherribi: College, Sociology, Director
Abduh An- Na’im: School of Law
Clifton Crais: College, History
Carla Freeman: College, Anthropology
Mary Galinski: School of Medicine, Infectious Diseases
David Goo: School of Medicine, Dept. of Pediatric Emergency
Mark Hallerberg: College, Political Science
Ivan Karp: College, ILA
Cory Kratz: College, Anthropology
Steve Lanski: School of Medicine, Dept. of Pediatric Emergency
Frank Lechner: College, Sociology
Deb McFarland: Rollins School of Public Health, Global Health
Jeff Rosensweig: Goizueta Business School
Scott Sasser: School of Medicine, Dept. of Emergency
Pamela Scully: College, History
Johan Van der Vyver: School of Law
Kenneth Walker: School of Medicine, Dept. of Medicine

Student Advisory Board

Forthcoming…