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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers
Pages 65-80

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... Currently, he conducts research on the impact of poverty and HIV/AIDS on children's development in South Africa (in collaboration with the Human Sciences Research Council) , the effect of preschool teacher training quality and children's learning and development in Ghana (in collaboration with Innovations for Poverty Action)
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... in low-resource settings globally; she's currently involved in assessments in the Middle East, South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and broader Islamic world. For her doctoral research, Dr.
From page 67...
... Ghassan Al Helou is a second-year business administration student at the Jordan University; the Media officer for Jeel 962; and is an active youth volunteer with various organizations in Jordan. Hamzah Al Najar finished school and joined one of the youth centers with Generations for Peace's social cohesion program.
From page 68...
... Maysoun Chehab is currently working as the Basic Education Regional Programme Officer at the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in the Arab States.
From page 69...
... Dr. El Fattah El Samman has worked as a human development trainer specializing in family and behavioral modeling, television presenter (more than
From page 70...
... El Nakib worked for the Mailman School of Public Health as a researcher, was part of a research group at Human Rights Watch in New York, and worked for the International Organization for Migration in Egypt. Selim El Sayegh, Ph.D., is a Professor of Law and International Relations at the University of Paris since 1993.
From page 71...
... Kathleen Hamill, J.D., is a human rights lawyer and a Visiting Scholar at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. As an Adjunct Assistant Professor, she has taught human rights and international law at the Fletcher School, Tufts University.
From page 72...
... He is the Senior Advisor of National Strategy for Early Childhood Development for the Higher Council of Childhood of the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs. He is a MENA Health Policy Forum member.
From page 73...
... Department of Health and Human Services as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development (2009–2011) in the Obama administration, and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and External Affairs in the Administration for Children and Families, and the first Commissioner of the Child Care Bureau among other positions (l993–1998)
From page 74...
... Her work has been recognized with several awards, including IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, INFORMS Wagner Prize, IBM Extraordinary Accomplishment Award, IBM Gerstner Prize, and Best Paper awards at the European Conference on Computer Vision and the Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics conferences. For her technical contributions and the business impact of her work, Dr.
From page 75...
... Rebello Britto is involved in work examining the relationship between early childhood and peace building. Rima Salah, Ph.D., is currently a member of the faculty of the Child Study Center at Yale University School of Medicine.
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... Dr. Sherr is editor of the international journal AIDS Care, as well as Psychology Health and Medicine and Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies.
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... Dr. Sirin is the recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award from Boston College, Young Scholar Award from the Foundation for Child Development for his project on immigrant children, and Review of Research Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA)
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... He is on the editorial board of Digital Signal Processing and a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee and Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee. Amalia Waxman leads a global corporate social responsibility initiative at Teva Pharmaceuticals, Israel.
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... in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Princess Sarah is married to HRH Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.


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