Members of the Experts Group

Independent Task Force Report
Strengthening Palestinian Public Institutions

June 28, 1999

Council on Foreign Relations

 

Samir Abdullah

• Chair, Arab Economists Association, Ramallah
• Publisher of Palestine Economic Pulse

Gabi Baramki

• Consultant, Ministry of Higher Education, Ramallah

Rex Brynen

• Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University, Canada

Eugene Cottran

• High Court Judge, United Kingdom

Ibrahim Dakkak

• Deputy head of Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), Ramallah

Basem Ezbidi

• Professor, An-Najah University, Nablus

Ihab Abu Ghosh

• Head of Legal Aid Center, Ramallah

Izzat Abdul Hadi

• Head of nongovermental organization’s network, Ramallah

Jamil Hilal

• Senior Researcher, Ramallah Rick Hooper
• Director, FAFO Program for International Cooperation and Conflict Resolution, Oslo, Norway

Nasr Abdul Karim

• Former Dean of Economics, An-Najah University, Nablus

Anis Kassim

• Attorney, Amman
• Member of Palestine National Council

Marwan Khawaja

• Researcher, FAFO, Oslo, Norway

Camille Mansour

• Director, Center of Law, Birzeit University, Ramallah

Jamil Rabah

• Ph.D. Candidate, Ramallah

Eberhard Rhein

• Political Adviser, European Policy Centre, Brussels
• Former Director for Mediterranean and Middle East/North Africa, European Commission

Ramzi Rihan

• Vice President of Development and Planning, Birzeit University, Ramallah

Taleb Sarie

• Associate Professor, University of Jordan, Amman

Hashim Abu Seido

• Deputy Projects Manager, Welfare Association Consortium (PINGO), Gaza

Salah Abdul Shafi

• Head of the Development Resource Center, Gaza

Theodore Sorensen

• Attorney, Paul Weiss & Rifkind, New York
• Former Senior Adviser to President John F. Kennedy

Raji Sourani

• Director, Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Gaza

Denis Sullivan

• Professor, Northeastern University, Boston
• Consultant to World Bank in West Bank/Gaza

Salim Tamari

• Director of Institute for Jerusalem Studies
• Professor of Sociology, Birzeit University, Ramallah