Israel Israel

He is a high-tech veteran, with more than 40 years of experience as a business executive and a business strategist. He is the CEO of Strategic Landscapes Ltd., advising high-tech companies on business development and growth strategies. As an entrepreneur of civil society initiatives, he has spent more than 25 years launching and driving transformational social change efforts, especially between Jews and Arabs in Israel and in the Middle-East region. Between 2007-2010, together with Yuval Rabin, he co-authored the Israeli Peace Initiative (IPI), as the first-ever Israeli response to the Arab Peace Initiative (API). In 2010, he co-founded “Yisrael Yozemet” (the Israeli Regional Initiative Group), to promote a new horizon for the Israeli-Arab conflict: a "Regional Package Deal" to create 2 states solution as part of a “Regional Framework" in the spirit of the API and IPI. He drove Track-2 diplomacy projects on regional conflict resolution, regional security, and regional economic cooperation. Koby has a BA in Economics and Management, and an MA in Philosophy.

USA USA

Now Senior Counsel at the law firm of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres LLP in New York, Joseph I. Lieberman was for 24 years a member of the U.S. Senate from Connecticut. At the end of his service in January 2013, he was Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and a senior member of the Armed Services Committee. Through both Committee positions, he became a leader in protecting the security of the American people and supporting American international leadership. Senator Lieberman is known as a national leader who works across party lines to get things done and who speaks his conscience regardless of the political consequences. Before his election to the Senate in 1988, Senator Lieberman served 10 years in the Connecticut State Senate and 6 years as Connecticut's Attorney General. In 2000 he was the Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States. Senator Lieberman also serves on the board of several nonprofit organizations including the McCain Institute. Senator Lieberman is married to Hadassah Freilich Lieberman. Together they have four children and 13 grandchildren.

Israel Israel

Dan Shechtman is a mechanical engineer and materials scientist by education a Distinguished Professor emeritus of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology a distinguished Professor in Iowa State University and past professor in Johns Hopkins University and U. of Maryland, Baltimore County. For his scientific discoveries he received many international awards, including the Wolf and the Nobel Prizes. He is member of several National Academies around the world as well as member and honorary member of scientific societies. He envisioned and created several educational programs that inspired the world, from scientific kindergartens to technological entrepreneurship class at the Technion, a class that over the past 36 years had more than 10,000 graduates, 25% of them were involved in startups. He also created and presented on Israel National Educational Television a scientific program for children – "To Be a Scientist with Professor Dan". Currently he is dedicated to bringing the Metaverse technology into Israel education system and he is the active chair of the Wolf Foundation Council In 2014 he ran for the Presidency of Israel (and lost). Dan Shechtman is married to Professor emerita Zipora Shechtman of the Haifa University. They have four children and twelve grandchildren.

UAE UAE

Dr. Ebtesam Al-Ketbi is the Founder and President of the Emirates Policy Center (EPC), one of the most influential think tanks in the Arab world. She is a Professor of Political Science at the United Arab Emirates University. In recognition of her position as the leader of one of the Arab world’s most influential think tanks, in 2015, Dr. Al-Ketbi was appointed Consultative Commission Member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). In July 2018, the Arabian Business magazine featured her among the 50 Most Influential Women in the Arab world. In 2019, Dr. Al-Ketbi received the Women Super Achiever Award during the World Women Leadership Congress. In 2021, she was named Advisor to the Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy. In January 2023, Dr. Al-Ketbi was named an Advisory Board Member of T20 International. She is currently a Member of the Board of Directors of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, the Global Advisory Board of the Observer Research Foundation in India, the Advisory Council of the Middle East Institute in Washington, and the International Advisory Board of the Italian Med-Or Foundation. Dr. Al-Ketbi has recently published three books: The UAE Power Building Model: Mohammed bin Zayed’s Vision (2022), The UAE Power-Building Model and Foreign Policy Shifts (2021), and Iran and the Biden Administration: A Potential Return to Negotiations (2021).

Germany Germany

Bernd Mützelburg is a retired German ambassador. He served as Ambassador and Head of mission in Kenya (1991 – 1995), in Estonia (1995-1999) and in India (2006-2009). In his last assignment he was Germany's first Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan (2009-2010).

His terms at Headquarters comprised in particular :

● Deputy Head of German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher´s Private Office during the years of German unification (1988-1991),

● Director General in the Foreign Office for Global issues and United Nations matters (2001-2002)

● Deputy Head (1999-2001) and later (2003-2005) Head of the Department for Foreign and Security Affairs as well as Development Cooperation in the Chancellor's Office (NSA)

● After retirement from Public Service, Bernd Mützelburg became Managing Partner of “Ambassadors Associates-International Networking GmbH”, a consultancy focusing on German relations with India and the Middle East. He is also a Board Member of the German-Arab Friendship Association (DAFG), where he is a co-founder of the annual German-Arab Gulf Dialogue on Security and Cooperation. Besides his consultancy work, he continues to be engaged in international mediation efforts on behalf of the German Foreign Office. For many years, he was also active as Chairman of the International Board of the German Center for International Peacekeeping activities (ZIF).

Egypt Egypt

Anwar E. El Sadat is President of Reform & Development Party in Egypt. Actively involved in politics, he has been elected in 2005 to the Egyptian People's Assembly. He was a member in the Foreign Relations Committee of the People's Assembly. He is also an active member in the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA). He participated in a number of international political, economical and social conferences and workshops in Egypt, Arab world and Europe. He published various articles in Egyptian newspaper with special interest on political and development issues in Egypt. He is the founder and chairman of El Sadat Association for Social Development and Welfare - a non-governmental organization in Egypt (NGO), aiming at enhancing development, alleviating poverty and promoting human rights and political participation. Mr. El Sadat was elected on 6 of March 2010, as a member of the Board of Directors of the General Federation of NGOs/Foundations - Egypt. Mr. El Sadat served in Parliament 2012, where he was the Chairman of the Human Rights Committee and he was a member of the Constituent Assembly of the Constitution. Recently Mr. Anwar El Sadat was elected to the House of Representative in 2015 and re elected as Chairman of Human Rights Committee till he left the Parliament March 2017. Currently General Coordinator "International Dialogue Group" and Chair Committee of Civil and Political Rights at the National Council for Human Rights.

USA USA

Robert Greenway has more than 30 years’ experience in public service culminating as the senior U.S. government official responsible for developing, coordinating, and implementing U.S. government policy for all of the Middle East and North Africa on the National Security Council. Prior to service on the NSC he served as a Senior Intelligence Officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency and a combat veteran of the United States Army Special Forces.

While Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the National Security Council’s Middle Eastern and North African Affairs Directorate, he planned and executed the United States’ most significant economic sanctions since the Cold War as part of a broad strategy for Iran which doubled the sanctions pressure of the previous three administrations in one third the time. He was a principal architect of the historic Abraham Accords, the most significant diplomatic breakthrough in Middle East peace since 1994. Personally supervised development of first-ever presidentially approved strategies for Iran, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, and Israel, and established the first national level efficacy and assessment process to quantify outcomes and measure progress toward strategic objectives. He was instrumental in the removal of the world’s most dangerous terrorist leaders, including Qassem Soleimani and Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, greatly improving regional stability and safety. He coordinated the implementation of a comprehensive strategy with a broad international coalition to defeat ISIS resulting in the liberation of the 20,000 square miles of territory it controlled and the elimination of its leadership in Syria and Iraq.

Bahrain Bahrain

Houda Nonoo retired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in the summer of 2022. During her tenure, she served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Bahrain to Washington DC and non-resident ambassador to Argentina, Brazil, Canada and Mexico before returning home to Bahrain working on a portfolio of special projects for the Minister. Prior to joining MoFA, she was appointed by His Majesty King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa to the Shura Council, where she served on the committee for Finance and Economic Affairs between 2006 and 2008.

She has been the Managing Director of Gulf Computer Services since 1993.

Ambassador Nonoo also has extensive work experience in the United Kingdom, where she served as Financial Director at Gourmet International and Jetflair International. Prior to that, she was in the dealing room at American Express.

She is a member of All Arab News’ advisory board, the Advisory Forum of King Abdulla Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAIICID), a founding member of Bahrain Association for Child Safety (BACS), and a founding member of the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) where she also served as General Secretary from 2005 to 2008. She previously served as a Board Member at the Bahrain Businesswomen’s Society and served two terms as a Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Bahrain (AmCham Bahrain).

She is also a member of the board of trustees and the treasurer for the House of the Ten Commandments (the Jewish community in Bahrain) and a founding board member of the Association of Gulf Jewish Communities.

Ambassador Nonoo holds an MBA in business administration from the International University of Europe, UK and a BA in accounting from the City of London University.

Israel, UK Israel, UK

Rabbi David Rosen is the Special Advisor for Interfaith Affairs of the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, and has been active in promoting interreligious understanding globally for some forty years. In the last decade, his work has increasingly focused on the advancement of Jewish-Muslim relations, particularly in the Arabian peninsula.
the third son of the renowned Rabbi Kopul Rosen (founding Principal of Carmel College in England) he was born in 1951 in Newbury, Berkshire, and educated in England and Jerusalem. He served in the IDF and was chaplain to the forces in West Sinai. Subsequently he served as the Senior Rabbi of the largest Jewish congregation in South Africa, in Sea Point, Cape Town, as well as on the Cape Beth Din (Ecclesiastical Court.) and he was the founder/chairman of the Cape Inter-Faith Forum, the Council of Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Thereafter he was appointed Chief Rabbi of Ireland during which time he also served on the Academic Council of the Irish School of Ecumenics. He returned to Israel in 1985 to take up the appointment of Dean at the Sapir Center for Jewish Education and Culture in the Old City of Jerusalem and subsequently became Professor of Jewish Studies at the Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies. At that time, he also served as the Anti-Defamation League’s Director of Interfaith Relations in Israel and as the ADL’s co-liaison to the Vatican. In 1997 he became the Director of the ADL Israel office, and in the Spring of 2001 he was appointed International Director of Interreligious affairs of the American Jewish Committee assuming responsibility for AJC’s global  interfaith work from his base in Jerusalem.
Rabbi Rosen is a member of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel’s Commission for Interreligious Dialogue; and is a past chairman of IJCIC, the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations that represents world Jewry to other world religions .
He is an International President of the Religions for Peace (RfP); Honorary President of the International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ); and is a member of  the Elijah Interfaith Institute’s Board of World Religious Leaders. He served for ten years on the Board of Directors of the King Abdullah International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID), established by the King of Saudi Arabia together with the governments of Austria and Spain and the Holy See. He has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the World Congress of Imams and Rabbis and as a member of the Executive Committee of the World Economic Forum’s Council for promoting relations and cooperation between the Muslim and Western worlds. He is a Founder of Rabbis for Human Rights, and the Rossing Centre for Education and Dialogue.
Rabbi Rosen was a member of the Bilateral Commission of the State of Israel and the Holy See that negotiated the Fundamental Agreement between the two, leading to the establishment of full bilateral relations in 1994.
In November 2005, Pope Benedict XVI made Rabbi Rosen a Knight of the Order of St Gregory the Great for his contribution to promoting Catholic-Jewish reconciliation; in 2010 he was made a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II for his contributions to interfaith relations; and in March 2016 he was awarded the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation.
In addition to honorary doctorates, Rabbi Rosen is the recipient of various awards including the Premio Galileo 2000 Award; the Raphael Lemkin Award for Human Rights;  the Search for Common Ground Award for Interfaith Dialogue; Waldzell Institute Life Achievement Award (together with the Dalai Lama and Sheikh Ahmed El Tayeb); and the Festival of Faiths’ Lifetime Achievement Award.
Rabbi Rosen is married to Sharon (Global Director of Religious Engagement, Search for Common Ground) and they have three daughters, four granddaughters and three grandsons.