Expert Advisory Panel

The experts below are available to help the participants in the Women's Leadership Program learn about issues such as which electoral systems would benefit women; how Iraqi women should lobby to be nominated in significant numbers in party lists; and how to secure women's rights and basic individual freedoms in the permanent constitution of Iraq. The program coordinator will help the participants communicate with the advisory panel via surveys and e-mail. The full list of advisors will be finalized by May 31st, 2005.

Carole Basri
Adjunct Professor of Corporate Law, the University of Pennsylvania School of Law
Expert on corruption.

Dr. Amy Chua
Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Expert on law, development and globalization; democratization and ethnic conflict.

Haleh Esfandiari
Director, Middle East Program, Woodrow Wilson Center
Expert on the women's movement in Iran; Former Deputy Secretary General of the Women's Organization of Iran

Dr. Hisham al-Jazairy (no online bio)
Dean of the University of Basra School of Law
Expert on constitutionalism and women legal issues.

Dr. Jo Kwong
Director of Institute Relations, Atlas Economic Research Foundation
Expert on free market economies and democracy, globalization and women.

Dr. Richard Matland
Professor of Political Science, University of Houston
Expert on elections, political parties, and how differing institutions can affect women's ability to gain political representation.