Dr. Hassan Fouda - Palestine Speaker
Dr. Hassan Fouda is an independent science consultant and former Assistant Director at Global Research and Development, Pfizer, Inc. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Tandem Lab, a Contract Research Organization based in Salt Lake City Utah. Currently, Hassan, serves on the Board of Directors of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolition (ICAHD-USA: www.ICAHD.org). He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Right to Return Coalition and served as the Connecticut chair. He is also active in several educational and interfaith peace advocacy groups including the Council for National Interest (CNIonline .org), If Americans Knew (IfAmericansKnew.org) and the Connecticut based We Refuse to be Enemies (Jews, Moslems and Christians in Coalition for Peace).
In January 2006, Dr. Fouda was a member of a delegation from the Council for the National Interest that participated as international observers to the recent Palestinian elections. The delegation which included two former U.S. ambassadors, met with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and President Emile Lahoud of Lebanon, with Amr Mousa, Secretary General of the Arab League, with other officials, Islamist and other opposition leaders and opinion makers in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine-Israel. Dr. Fouda returned to Israel-Palestine in February 2006 with an American interfaith delegation seeking to find and amplify voices of hope and accommodation among Israelis and Palestinians.