IWEI Advisory Board
Our advisory board consists of top academics, CEOs, and NGO leaders who provide leadership, expertise and advice on how to best implement IWEI programs.

IWEI’s Board of Advisors are as follows:

Asma Afsaruddin
Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies
The University of Notre Dame

Isabelle Bleas (no online bio)
Senior Operations Officer
World Bank Institute

Pamela Coffey (no online bio)
Senior Technical Advisor
Development Alternatives, Inc.

Roberta Cohen
Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy Studies
Co-Director
The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement       

Haleh Esfandiari
Director of Middle East Programs
Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars

Patty Friedman (no online bio)
Program Director, Iraq
America's Development Foundation

Mandana Hendessi
Director of National Women's Commission (UK)

Fatima Kassam (no online bio)
Former Director
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
 

Karen Kerrigan
President & CEO
Women's Entrepreneurs, Inc.

Marguerite Sullivan
Manager of Communications
The National Endowment for Democracy

Anne Trenolone (no online bio)
Director of Public Policy
FINCA International

Judy Van Rest
Executive Vice President
The International Republican Institute