William A. Graham was appointed Dean of Harvard Divinity School in August 2002, having served as Acting Dean since January 1, 2002. He has been a member of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1973. He has served as director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Master of Currier House, and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Committee on the Study of Religion, and the Core Curriculum Subcommittee on Foreign Cultures at Harvard. He is also former chair of the Council on Graduate Studies in Religion (U.S. and Canada). His scholarly work has focused on early Islamic religious history and textual traditions and problems in the history of world religion. In October 2000, he received the quinquennial Award for Excellence in Research in Islamic History and Culture from the Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA), the research institute of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. He has held John Simon Guggenheim and Alexander von Humboldt research fellowships and is the author of Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion (1987, 1993); Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Islam (1977 "American Council of Learned Societies History of Religions Prize, 1978); co-author of The Heritage of World Civilizations (6th rev. ed., 2003) and Three Faiths, One God (2002); and co-editor of Islamfiche: Readings from Islamic Primary Sources (1982-87). Dean Graham is a summa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard.

David Little is the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict at Harvard University. He joined the Faculty of Divinity in 1999. Before that, he was senior scholar in religion, ethics, and human rights at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington, D. C., where he directed the Working Group on Religion, Ideology, and Peace, which conducted a study of religion, nationalism, and intolerance in reference to the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Intolerance and Discrimination. From 1996-98, he was on the State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. He writes in the areas of moral philosophy, moral theology, history of ethics, and the sociology of religion, with an interest in comparative ethics, human rights, religious liberty, and ethics and international affairs. He is the co-author of Islamic Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy, and author of two volumes in the USIP series on religion, nationalism, and intolerance.

Rachel M. McCleary is the Director of the Project on Religion, Political Economy, and Society for the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and a Master of Theological Studies from Emory University. She earned her Bachelor's degree with honors from Indiana University. She has taught at Georgetown, Princeton, and John Hopkins University's School for Advanced International Relations. In 1994, she was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Guatemala. In 1997, she was coordinator for the Government of Guatemala's Inter-American Development Project to promote private sector activity in a post-conflict setting. She was also program officer for the United States Institute of Peace where she had oversight for grants on education and training, conflict resolution, and Latin America. In addition, she has been a consultant to the Ford Foundation, the Asociaci'n de Azucareros, S.A., Harvard Institute for International Development"s Central America Project and Andean Project.

Dr. Jessica Stern is a Lecturer for Public Policy and a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 1994-95, she served as Director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council, where she was responsible for national security policy toward Russia and the former Soviet states and for policies to reduce the threat of nuclear smuggling and terrorism. Stern earlier worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In 1998-99, she was the superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and in 1995-1996, she was a National Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and in 1995-1996, she was a National Fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is the author of Terror in the Name of God (HarperCollins, 2003), The Ultimate Terrorists (Harvard University Press, 1999), and of numerous articles on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. She received a Bachelor's degree from Barnard College in Chemistry and a Master"s of Science degree from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard.

Rev. J. Bryan Hehir is President of Catholic Charities USA and also serves as Distinguished Professor of Ethics and International Affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Rev. Hehir's academic and policy work over the last thirty years has focused upon Catholic social teaching and social policy, the role of religion in world politics and in American society, and the role of ethics in international politics and U.S. foreign policy. In September 2001, Rev. Hehir was installed as president of Catholic Charities USA, "a national network of 1,640 local Catholic Charities agencies and institutions that provides help and create hope for more than seven million people a year regardless of their religious, social, or economic backgrounds."

Prior to assuming his position at Catholic Charities USA, Rev. Hehir served for eight years at Harvard University. From 1998-2001 he was Interim Dean then Dean of the Harvard Divinity School, the first Catholic to hold this position. He joined the Divinity School faculty in 1993 as Professor of the Practice in Religion and Society. He was a faculty associate at Harvard's Weatherhead Center of International Affairs, an affiliated faculty member of the Kennedy School of Government, a faculty associate of the Ethics and the Professions program, and a member of the faculty advisory committee to the Institute of Politics.

From 1973 to 1992, Rev. Hehir was assigned to the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops in Washington, DC, where he held positions as director of the Office of International Affairs; secretary of the Department of Social Development and World Peace; and counselor for Social Policy. From 1984 to 1992, he also served on the faculty at Georgetown University, holding teaching positions as the Joseph P. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the Kennedy Center for Ethics and as research professor of Ethics and International Politics in the School of Foreign Service.

Rev. Hehir was a MacArthur Foundation Fellow (1984-1988) and has received more than 25 honorary degrees from American colleges and universities. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the board of the Arms Control Association, the Center for Global Development and the Independent Sector.

He received his B.A. and Master"s of Divinity from St. John's Seminary and his Th.D. in applied theology from Harvard Divinity School in 1977. His writings include: The Limits of Loyalty (Foreign Policy, 2002); International Politics, Ethics and the Use of Force (Georgetown Journal, 2002); "Catholicism and Democracy" in Christianity and Democracy: Past Contributors and Future Challenges; "The Social Role of the Church: Leo XIII, Vatican II and John Paul II" in Catholic Social Thought and the New World Order; "Policy Arguments in a Public Church: Catholic Social Ethics and Bioethics" (Journal of Medicine and Philosophy).

William C. Kirby is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In 1992, Dean Kirby joined Harvard's History Department and chaired the department from 1995 to 2000. He has been the Geisinger Professor of History since 1999. A distinguished historian of modern China, Dean Kirby's work examines China's economic and political development in an international context. He holds visiting professorships at Peking University and Nanjing University. Reflecting his longstanding scholarly interest in Germany, he has also taught at the Free University in Berlin and at the University of Heidelberg. Director of Harvard's Asia Center from 1999 to 2002, Kirby played a key role in fostering collaboration among Asia scholars at Harvard. His commitment to international studies continues in his efforts to expand opportunities for College students to study abroad. Dean Kirby received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard. Before coming to Harvard, he was Professor of History, Dean of University College, and Director of Asian Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Richard N. Cooper is Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University. He has written extensively on questions of international economic policy, including The Economics of Interdependence (1968), Economic Policy in an Interdependent World (1986), The International Monetary System (1987), Can Nations Agree? (with others, 1989), Economic Stabilization and Debt in Developing Countries (1992), Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment: Macroeconomic Management in Developing Countries (with others, 1993), Macroeconomic Policy and Adjustment in Korea, 1970-1990 (with others, 1994), and Environment and Resource Policies for the World Economy (1994), as well as over three hundred articles. In 1990-92 he was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. From 1963-77 he was professor of economics and Provost (1972-74) of Yale University. He has served, on several occasions, in the U.S. government, as Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (1995-97), Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1977-1981), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Monetary Affairs (1965-66), and senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers (1961-63). He was educated at Oberlin College (B.A., 1956), the London School of Economics (M.Sc., 1958), and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1962).

Kathleen Molony is in her fourth year as director of the Fellows Program of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University (WCFIA) and also as a member of the Center's executive committee. From 1994 to 2000, she worked at the Massachusetts Trade Office, serving in several positions, most recently as its executive director. As the top international trade official in the state, she advised the Governor on foreign policy and international trade issues, and also assisted Massachusetts companies in entering overseas markets. During the 1993-94 academic year, Dr. Molony was an advanced research fellow at the Weatherhead Center's Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. She has also been a consultant, working more than a dozen years at Standard & Poor's DRI, and an academic, having taught briefly at Princeton University. Dr. Molony holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University.

Dani Rodrik is professor of international political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and teaches in the School's MPA/ID Program. He has published widely in the areas of international economics, economic development, and political economy. What constitutes good economic policy and why some governments are better than others in adopting it are the central questions on which his research focuses. He is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research, Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), Center for Global Development, Institute for International Economics, and Council on Foreign Relations. He has been the recipient of research grants from the Carnegie Corporation, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation. Among other honors, he was presented the Leontief Award for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2002. Prof. Rodrik is the author of "In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation, and Economic Performance," (with Sharun Mukand), American Economic Review, March 2005, "Democracies Pay Higher Wages," Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1999, "Why Do More Open Economies Have Bigger Governments?" Journal of Political Economy, October 1998, "Distributive Politics and Economic Growth" (with A. Alesina), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1994, and "Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual-Specific Uncertainty" (with R. Fernandez), American Economic Review, 1991, among other publications. His 1997 book, Has Globalization Gone Too Far?, was called "one of the most important economics books of the decade" in Business Week. He recently edited a collection titled In Search of Prosperity: Analytic Narratives on Economic Growth (Princeton University Press, 2003). He is also the author of The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work (Overseas Development Council, Washington DC, 1999). He is an editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics and an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Literature. He has given the WIDER Annual Lecture (November 2004), the Gaston Eyskens Lectures (October 2002), the Carlos F. Diaz Alejandro Lecture at the Latin American meeting of the Econometric Society (July 2001), the Alfred Marshall Lecture of the European Economic Association (August 1996), and the Raul Prebisch Lecturer of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (October 1997). His most recent research is concerned with the determinants of economic growth and the consequences of international economic integration. Prof. Rodrik holds a Ph.D. in economics and an M.P.A. from Princeton University, and an A.B., summa cum laude, from Harvard College.

Robert Z. Lawrence is Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1998 to 2000. Lawrence has also been a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has also taught at Yale University, where he received his Ph.D. in economics. His research focuses on trade policy. He is the author of Crimes and Punishments? Retaliation under the WTO; Regionalism, Multilateralism and Deeper Integration; and Single World, Divided Nations? He is coauthor of Has Globalization Gone Far Enough? The Costs of Fragmentation in OECD Markets (with Scott Bradford); A Prism on Globalization; Globaphobia: Confronting Fears About Open Trade; A Vision for the World Economy; and Saving Free Trade: A Pragmatic Approach. Prof. Lawrence has served on the advisory boards of the Congressional Budget Office, the Overseas Development Council, and the Presidential Commission on United States-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy.

Richard L. Morningstar, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, is a former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union. He has been a Visiting Scholar and Diplomat in Residence at the Stanford University Institute for International Studies and is Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School. Mr. Morningstar joined the law firm of Peabody and Brown (now Nixon and Peabody) upon graduation from law school in 1970 and remained with that firm through 1981. He then joined Costar Corporation as President and Chief Executive Officer and became Chairman of the Board of that corporation in 1990. From 1993 to 1995, he served as Senior Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporations (OPIC), and, in 1995, he became an Ambassador and Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State on Assistance for the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. In 1998, he became Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State for Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy. In 1999, Mr. Morningstar was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the European Union. He received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Mokhtar Hajji has worked at the Ministry of Industry and Energy of Tunisia for the last five years, where he is now Deputy Director of International Cooperation. His current job responsibilities include developing new bilateral cooperation projects with Arab and African countries in the fields of Industry, small and medium enterprises, energy and mining. He is also in charge of cooperation with international organizations such as WTO, UNCTAD, ISO, and UNID. Mr. Hajji holds a Bachelor's Degree in Law and a Master's from the College of Administration in Tunis. He has also taken a number of training courses abroad, including the UNCTAD course on the key issues of the International Economic Agenda, Geneva, Switzerland and Turin, Italy, in August 2002. During the Humphrey year at Boston University, Mr. Hajji will focus his studies on law and economics, e- commerce law, international trade law, intellectual property law, and copyright negotiations and theory. He expects to develop his expertise in these fields and share his U.S. experience with his colleagues in Tunisia. He intends to apply his knowledge and research to facilitate economic reforms and market liberalization in Tunisia.

Jorge Dominguez is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs. He is the Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) and Chairman of The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at Harvard University. He is a professor in the Department of Government and a member of the executive committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). His research focuses primarily on the domestic and international politics of Latin American countries.

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Domingo Cavallo has been Robert F. Kennedy Professor of Latin American Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University since September 2003. He was born in San Francisco, in the Province of Cordoba, Argentina, in 1946. He received his primary, secondary and undergraduate education from Argentine public schools and universities. After graduating with degrees in public accounting and economics from the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (UNC), at the age of 21 he earned a Doctorate in Economics from the same university. Upon graduation, he was awarded the UNC's top honor, a gold medal for best academic performance of the year. At age 24, he was named Director of the Bank of Cordoba, Mexico. In 1977, he received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He was the Visiting Professor in International Business and Economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University from 2002 to 2003. He founded his business consulting firm. Since 2002, Dr. Cavallo has given conferences in many universities and institutions, including the University of Michigan, Columbia, Princeton, Georgetown, Stanford, Colorado, Boston, Boston College, Amherst College, Clark, NYU and Harvard. Former Minister Cavallo has received decorations from governments of more than 20 countries. Dr. Cavallo has been a recipient of numerous honorary degrees from universities such as the University of Bologna, the Universit' Paris 1 Panth'on-Sorbonne, the University of Turin, Ben Gurion University and the University of Genoa. He is Correspondent Member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Spain and a member of the Group of Thirty. Dr. Cavallo is the author of several books, including Volver a Crecer, Econom'a en Tiempos de Crisis, La Argentina Que Pudo Ser, El Desaf'o Federal, El Peso de la Verdad and Pasi'n por Crear.

Monica Aparicio-Smith is currently a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA). She previously served as Chairman and CEO of Banco Santander in Puerto Rico. Her research interests include the strengthening of institution-building and leadership in less developed countries and specifically studies Latin America.

Jim Ziglar has served in the federal government for more than 15 years. Most recently, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS), which is now officially the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services operating under the Department of Homeland Security, and faced some of the INS's greatest challenges in the wake of September 11th. Prior to his appointment as INS Commissioner, Mr. Ziglar was unanimously elected Sergeant of Arms of the U.S. Senate, where he served as the chief officer for administration, protocol, and security. In 1987, Mr. Ziglar served as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science. Mr. Ziglar began his legal career as law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun in the 1972 term. It was during this term that the landmark decision regarding abortion rights was made in the Roe v. Wade decision. In addition to Mr. Ziglar's career in law and public service, he also has a total of 23 years experience in investment banking. He is a member of the bars of New York; Washington, DC; Virginia, and Arizona. He holds a B.A. and a J.D. from George Washington University.

Ali Noorani joined the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) as Executive Director in November of 2003. MIRA is a statewide organization working with members to protect and promote the rights and opportunities of Massachusetts' immigrants and refugees. MIRA advances this mission through education, organizing, and policy analysis and advocacy. He has worked for several years on a variety of community health and social justice issues in the region. Most recently, Mr. Noorani worked at the Health Services Partnership of Dorchester where he was director of public health, managing efforts ranging from HIV/AIDS services to youth development for two large community health centers in Dorchester.

He is active in urban open space issues with the Boston GreenSpace Alliance, and also sits on the boards of the Massachusetts Public Health Association and Massachusetts Asian Pacific Islanders for Health. Mr. Noorani is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and received his Master's in Public Health from Boston University. He has written several articles, and spoken to local and regional media.

Bo Cooper served as General Counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from 1999 until February 2003, when he became responsible for the transition of immigration services to Homeland Security. He was responsible, as the Federal Government's top immigration law specialist, for advising the Commissioner of the INS, the Attorney General of the United States, the White House, other Executive Branch agencies, and Congress on all aspects of U.S. immigration law. He was principal legal advisor to the INS during two Administrations, at a time when immigration ranked among the most sensitive issues on the national public policy agenda. As General Counsel, Mr. Cooper directed a legal program of 700 attorneys in 56 offices around the nation, who provided legal and policy advice to the agency and litigated on behalf of the U.S. Government. He was twice the recipient of the Commissioner's Exceptional Service Award, the agency's most prestigious award. He has testified frequently before Congress and has had numerous television, radio, and print media appearances, including Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Sixty Minutes, Nightline, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, BBC Radio, CBC Radio, and National Public Radio's All Things Considered. On behalf of the U.S., Mr. Cooper was a leader of immigration-related bilateral negotiations and a U.S. delegate to intergovernmental organizations. He also teaches immigration law at the University of Michigan and American University. Prior to joining the INS in 1991, Mr. Cooper gained significant experience litigating on behalf of the Federal Government. He is also a member of the Global Personnel Alliance steering committee and serves as the organization's Washington representative.

Eddie Walneck, class of 2005, worked as the vice Chair of External Speakers with the International Relations Week Executive Board. He was involved with the Institute of Politics' Forum Committee and the Harvard Undergraduate Council. Mr. Walneck was also involved in the Catholic Student's Association, RAZA, and CIVICS, a student-run organization aimed to increase civic participation amongst inner-city youth.