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Will Davis

Will Davis is currently the Director of the United Nations Information Center in Washington, D.C. Mr. Davis graduated cum laude from Duke University where he also subsequently earned a Master’s Degree in Public Policy Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Governor Howard Dean

Howard Dean led the “50-State Strategy” that helped Democrats regain the White House in 2008. A physician and 6-term Governor of Vermont, Dr. Dean was an early opponent of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Sahar Delijani

Sahar Delijani's work has been published in a broad spectrum of literary journals and publications, including "The Battered Suitcase, Tryst, Slice Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, Perigee, Border Hopping, Berkeley Poetry Review", and "Sangam Review". She was nominated for the 2010 and 2011 Pushcart Prize and was for a time a regular contributor to "Iran-Emrooz" (Iran of Today) Political and Cultural Journal. She makes her home with her husband in Turin, Italy.

Larry Diamond

A Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institute, Larry Diamond is founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, and co-director of the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy. He has advised the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the United Nations, the State Department, and other governmental and nongovernmental organizations on democratization. He is the author of Squandered Victory, about America's bungled effort to bring democracy to Iraq. His most recent book The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World (2008) explores the sources of global democratic progress and the stress and the future prospects of democracy.

Larry Diamond

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where he directs the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Diamond also serves as the Peter E. Haas Faculty Co-Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford. He is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy and also serves as Senior Consultant (and previously was co-director) at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy.

Jacqui Dunne

Jacqui Dunne is an award-winning journalist from Ireland, founder and CEO of Danu Resources, and an emerging leader in helping entrepreneurs develop technologies and initiatives that restore the earth's equilibrium globally. Danú Resources serves as a fiscal agent for funding, and works as the interface between the donors and the projects. Danu’s unique value is its ability to work from a future reference point that draws out the greatness, and builds upon the strengths, of both the donor and the recipient, thus creating a flourishing paradigm shift for a quadruple bottom line—people, planet, profits and power within. She currently resides in Colorado.



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