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Eldad Ben Aharon

Eldad Ben Aharon

Dr Eldad Ben Aharon is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. He will be a visiting scholar at New York University during the spring 2026 semester. Dr Ben Aharon’s research focuses on the intersection of security, identity, and memory,

Paul Boghossian

Director, Global Institute for Advanced Study, NYU; Steering Committee Chair; Co-Chair, GIAS Advisory Council; Julius Silver Professor of Philosophy and former Chair, NYU Department of Philosophy

Leigh Bond

Program Administrator (leigh.bond@nyu.edu)

Deborah Borda

Executive Advisor to the President and Board of Directors, NY Philharmonic

Timothy Collins

CEO and senior MD, Ripplewood Advisors L.L.C.; Co-Chair, NYU Global Institute for Advanced Study Advisory Council

Richard Foley

Professor of Philosophy; former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and Vice-Chancellor for Strategic Planning, New York University

Andrew Forrest AO

Founder and Chairman, Fortescue Metals Group and Minderoo Foundation
Ryan Goodman

Ryan Goodman

Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law Co-Editor-in-Chief, Just Security Co-Director, Reiss Center on Law and Security Professor of Politics Professor of Sociology NYU School of Law

Anna Harvey

Interim Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Science, NYU

Secretary John Kerry

Visiting Distinguished Statesman, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former US Secretary of State
Khatchig Mouradian

Khatchig Mouradian

Khatchig Mouradian is a lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University. He is the author of The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918.

Naguib Sawiris

Executive Chairman, Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding; Chairman, Orascom TMT Investments S.à r.l.; Chairman of the Advisory Board, La Mancha Holding S.à r.l; Chairman of the Board, Euronews; Director, Gemini Global Development; Founder, Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E.

Tamsin Shaw

Associate Professor of European and Mediterranean Studies and Philosophy, NYU

David Stasavage

Dean for the Social Sciences. Julius Silver Professor, The Wilf Family Department of Politics; Affiliated Professor of History and Law, NYU