International Advisory Council

Amr Badr | Managing Director, Egypt and Middle East, Abercrombie and Kent

Managing Director for the Middle East and Egypt with Abercrombie and Kent, Amr Badr developed his career over the past 15 years in travel and hospitality industry as well as in international relations by serving in the Middle East, India, Europe, Canada, and the USA. He has been appointed to numerous committees and boards including the Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement, and the High Committee for Tourism Promotion and Media and Communications Committees of the Egyptian Tourism Federation.  In 2003, he was unanimously elected to serve as Vice Chairman for Middle East and Africa People to People organization.  He has received recognition for outstanding achievement and excellence from Queen Rania of Jordan, King Mohamed of Morocco, the Carter Center, People to People International, and MSC, among others.

President Anicet George Dologuele | President, Central African States Development Bank

A former Finance Minister and Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, President Dologuele has been presiding over the Central African States Development Bank (BDEAC) since September 2001. Prior to that assignment, he was National Director at the Central African Reserve Bank (BEAC) for his country. He spent 19 years with BEAC where he assumed extensive managerial and operational roles ranging from the Governor's Representative in France and Western Europe, Central Director for External Financial Relations to Central Director for Organization and Information Systems. He holds numerous honors and distinctions both nationally and internationally.

Hayumi Higuchi | Professor at Senshu University (in Kanagawa, Japan)

Hayumi Higuchi had her graduate work in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She is the author of American Black Leaders and White Management in Northern Industrial Cities: The Formation of a Positive Black Identity during the Interwar Period (1997, in Japanese, Shimizu Hiroshi Award for 1998), the co-editor of American Histories: Narrating the Routes to Nationhood (2006, in Japanese) and the translator (in Japanese) of Having Our Say (2000), Somerset Homecoming (2002), Coming of Age in Mississippi (2008).  Her current research interest revolves around the making of memory in race relations in 20th century U.S. as well as civil rights movements in the U. S.  She has been also engaged in administrative works for academic organizations in Japan.