Brookings Doha Center
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Brookings Doha Center is a project of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy
within the Brookings Institution
, started in 2007. In its own words, it conducts "research on the socio-economic and geopolitical issues facing Muslim-majority states and communities, and encourages increased dialogue between policy makers from the U.S. and the Muslim world".
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. It was inaugurated on February 17, 2008 by then Brookings Vice President for Foreign Policy Studies Carlos Pascual (diplomat)
, the Saban Center director Martin Indyk
and then Brookings Doha Center Director Hady Amr
with an address by the Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al Thani, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar. The Brookings Institution is America's oldest think tank of its kind. The opening of its first research center in the Arab world or Muslim-majority country is a significant historical development.
"http://www.brookings.edu/events/2008/0217_doha.aspx"
Saban Center for Middle East Policy
The Saban Center for Middle East Policy is a center within the Brookings Institution focused on the United States' involvement in the Middle East...
within the Brookings Institution
Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., in the United States. One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and...
, started in 2007. In its own words, it conducts "research on the socio-economic and geopolitical issues facing Muslim-majority states and communities, and encourages increased dialogue between policy makers from the U.S. and the Muslim world".
Funding
The center is funded through a partnership between the Brookings Institution and the State of QatarQatar
Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...
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Launch
The creation of the center was announced in October 2007 by Brookings President Strobe TalbottStrobe Talbott
Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine and diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001.-Early life:Born in Dayton, Ohio...
. It was inaugurated on February 17, 2008 by then Brookings Vice President for Foreign Policy Studies Carlos Pascual (diplomat)
Carlos Pascual (diplomat)
Carlos Pascual is a Cuban-American diplomat and the former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Ukraine.-Education:Pascual attended Bishop Amat Memorial High School in La Puente California and graduated in 1976. He then earned a B.A. from Stanford University in 1980 and an M.P.P...
, the Saban Center director Martin Indyk
Martin Indyk
Martin Sean Indyk is Vice President and Director for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Indyk served as United States ambassador to Israel and Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs during the Clinton Administration. He is known as the framer of the U.S...
and then Brookings Doha Center Director Hady Amr
Hady Amr
Hady Amr has served as Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Middle East at the United States Agency for International Development since October 2010. He is a policy analyst and author known for his work in the area of U.S. relations with the Muslim world and his focus on the Arab-Israeli...
with an address by the Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al Thani, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar. The Brookings Institution is America's oldest think tank of its kind. The opening of its first research center in the Arab world or Muslim-majority country is a significant historical development.
"http://www.brookings.edu/events/2008/0217_doha.aspx"
Advisory Council
The Brookings Doha Center has an International Advisory Council which includes:- Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al ThaniHamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thanistyle="float:right;"| Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber bin Muhammad Al Thani is a Qatari politician and the current Prime Minister of Qatar, a position he has held since 3 April 2007, and Foreign Minister, which he has been since 11 January 1992.-Life and education:Sheikh Hamad was born in Doha,...
, Chair - Strobe TalbottStrobe TalbottNelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine and diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001.-Early life:Born in Dayton, Ohio...
, Co-Chair - Madeline Albright
- Samuel BergerSandy BergerSamuel Richard "Sandy" Berger was United States National Security Advisor, under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. In his position, he helped to formulate the foreign policy of the Clinton Administration...
- Zbigniew BrzezinskiZbigniew BrzezinskiZbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski is a Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981....
- Edward P. Djerejian
- Vartan GregorianVartan GregorianVartan Gregorian is an Armenian-American academic, serving as the president of Carnegie Corporation of New York. He is an ethnic Armenian, born in Iran....
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- Musa HitamMusa HitamTun Musa bin Hitam , is a Malaysian politician and a former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, serving under Mahathir bin Mohamad. He was born in Johor Bahru, Johor in 1934...
- Pervez HoodbhoyPervez HoodbhoyDr. Prof. Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy , is a Pakistani nuclear physicist, essayist and political-defence analyst. He is the professor of nuclear and high-energy physics, and the head of the Physics Department at the Quaid-e-Azam University . He graduated and also received PhD from MIT and continues to...
- Rima Khalaf Hunaidi
- Nemir Kirdar
- Rami G. Khouri
- Atta ur-Rahman
- Ismail SerageldinIsmail SerageldinIsmail Serageldin is the director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. He also chairs the Boards of Directors for each of the BA's affiliated research institutes and museums and was a Distinguished Professor at Wageningen University in the Netherlands...
- Fareed ZakariaFareed ZakariaFareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author. From 2000 to 2010, he was a columnist for Newsweek and editor of Newsweek International. In 2010 he became Editor-At-Large of Time magazine...