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Board of Directors
Our board, responsible for guiding our direction, strategy and future projects

Faisal Saeed Al Mutar
President & Founder Ideas Beyond Borders

Sam Hershey
Chairman of the Board & Attorney at White & Case

Melissa Chen
Managing Director & Board Member

Steven Pinker
Board Member & Professor at Harvard University

Dan Johnson
Board Member, CEO & Chairman of AFS

Brady Forrest
Board Member, Head of Business Development at MobileCoin

Nick Gillespie
Board Member, Editor-at-large at Reason
Our Advisory Board
Our acclaimed advisors offer an extraordinary breadth of expertise across several fields

Vinicius Fortuna
Censorship and digital security expert

Sam Vaghar
Social Entrepreneur & Executive Director

Michael Trollan
Renowned Technology Expert

Aaron Louis
Director of Audio Visual at the New York Museum of Modern Art

Bob Pearson
CEO, The Bliss Group

Jeffrey Flier
Former Dean of Harvard Medical School

Cynthia Schneider
Former US Ambassador to the Netherlands

Anthony Amore
Author & Security/Investigations Expert

Merete Riisager
Former Danish Minister of Education

Laith Al-Shawaf
Professor of Psychology & Content Advisor

Natalie Khazaal
Expert on Disenfranchisement, Media and Languages in the Arab World

Omar Mohammed
Historian and Author of the Mosul Eye

Hugo Williams
Templar Advisors

Alex Gladstein
Chief Strategy Officer, Human Rights Foundation

Alberto Fernandez
Vice President - MEMRI

Tom G. Palmer
Executive Vice President for International Programs at Atlas Network

Alexander McCobin
Co-Founder & General Partner, Liberty Ventures

Jacob Mchangama
Founder & Director, Justitia

Mohamad Soliman
Director, Middle East Institute