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Dr. Hassan Abbas received his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. A Britannia Chevening Scholar, he received a LLM in international law from Nottingham University, UK. A former Pakistani government official and a fellow at Harvard Law School, he is the author of Pakistan's Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America's War on Terror. Mr. Abbas also runs the blog Watandost.

Doug Ahlers helped pioneer e-commerce and online advertising. He co-founded Modem Media, Inc., which created Internet strategies for Fortune 500 companies. He is currently working on a book that examines the role of the Internet in the changing power dynamic between individuals/groups and nation-states. A resident of New Orleans, he started the Kennedy School Broadmoor Project, a collaborative redevelopment effort between the hurricane-devastated Broadmoor neighborhood and KSG.

Kwang-Chan Ahn served 37 years in the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) Army—in the fields of operations, intelligence, and strategy—and retired as Major General in 2002. He earned his Ph.D. in law from Dong-Guk University, Seoul, Korea, in 2003 and is the former chairman of the ROK’s National Emergency Planning Commission.

May Al-Dabbagh earned her PhD in psychology from the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis was entitled, "Working Women in Saudi Arabia: A Study of Stress and Well-Being.” She is primarily interested in gender and public policy with a focus on countries of the Gulf Cooperative Council. She has a BA in psychology from Harvard, magna cum laude.