Madeleine Albright
Principal, The Albright Group; former US Secretary of State

Steve Bartlett
President, Financial Services Roundtable
Former US Representative
Former Mayor of Dallas, Texas

Paul Brest
President, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Stephen Covey
Co-Founder, Vice Chairman, FranklinCovey
Writer, speaker, and academic

Marc Gopin
James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
Director, Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict
Resolution, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

Stephen Heintz
President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Shamil Idriss (co-facilitator)
Acting Director, Office of Alliance of Civilizations, United Nations

Daisy Khan
Executive Director, American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA)

Richard Land
President, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention
Member, US Commission on International Religious Freedom

John Marks
President and Founder, Search for Common Ground

Susan Collin Marks
Senior Vice President, Search for Common Ground
Author, Watching the Wind: Conflict Resolution during South Africa’s Transition to Democracy

Sayyeda Mirza-Jafri
Program Manger, One Nation Project, East-West Institute

Dalia Mogahed
Executive Director of Gallup’s Center for Muslim Studies, The Gallup Organization
Co-author with John Esposito of Can You Hear Me?: Listening to the Voices of a Billion Muslims

Vali Nasr
Professor, Naval Post-Graduate School
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Feisal Abdul Rauf
Imam, Masjid al-Farah in New York City
Chairman, Cordoba Initiative
Author of What’s Right with Islam Is What’s Right with America

Dennis Ross
Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Studies
Former US Special Middle East Envoy and Negotiator

George Russell, Jr.
Chairman of the Board, East-West Institute
Chair, The Threshold Group

S. Abdallah Schleifer
Washington Bureau Chief, Al-Arabiya News Channel

Jessica Stern
Lecturer in Public Policy (terrorism), Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Mustapha Tlili
Founder and Director, Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S.-The West, Senior Fellow, Remarque Institute of NYU

William Ury (co-facilitator)
Harvard Global Negotiation Project
Co-author of Getting to Yes

Vin Weber
CEO, Clark and Weinstock
Chairman, National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Former US Representative

Daniel Yankelovich
Chairman, Public Agenda
Author

Ahmed Younis
Former National Director, Muslim Public Affairs Council

PROJECT STAFF

Rob Fersh
Executive Director, Search for Common Ground USA (SFCG-USA)

David Fairman
Managing Director, Consensus Building Institute

Paula Gutlove
Program Associate, CBI
Deputy Director, Institute for Resource and Security Studies

Leena El-Ali
Director of Partners in Humanity, SFCG

Bill Belding
Past President, Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation