Our People

Management

Mr James Watt CVO

Chairman

James Watt has nearly four decades of diplomatic experience mostly in the Middle East and West Asia, much of it working in support of humanitarian and development programmes serving refugees and the internally displaced and dealing with the wider phenomenon of migration.

Dr Ibrahim Saif

Managing Director

Former Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources and Former Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Jordan.  He was a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Centre and served as a consultant to the IMF

Dr Eva Haddad

Director

Assistant Professor at the School of Applied Humanities and Languages at the German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan. Specialist in intercultural communication and foreign policy.

Dr Amer Sabaileh

Non-Resident Director

Jordanian University Professor and Security Expert. He is a columnist in National, Regional and International Media. Amer received his PhD from the University of Pisa, Italy.

Things to talk about (amersabaileh.blogspot.com)

International Advisory Board

Mr Roberto Bonino

Chairman of the International Advisory Board

 

Roberto is a member of the Senior Management of Hume Institute for Postgraduate Studies.  He is a researcher and educator. 

Professor Dr Daniela Piana

Currently OECD Justice Research Committee, Chair of Political Science, University di Bologna, Coordinator Rule of Law and Digital Citizenship ICEDD, Roma.

Professor Jean-David Avenel

Professeur émérite des universités, Sorbonne Graduate, President of the Commission française d’Histoire militaire, France

Dr Francine Saint-Ramond

Holds a Doctorate in History from Pantheon-Sorbonne.  Francine is a well-known author in History and is the author of ‘Les Desorjentes: experiences of French soldiers in the Dardanelles and in Macedonia, 1915-1918’.  The book is based on testimonies from soldiers who took part in the Orient campaign.

Dr Vincent Arbaretier

Retired Lieutenant-Colonel of French Army, educated in Saint-Cyr Military Academy, and Science-Po Paris, PhD in Political Sciences and Contemporary History (since 2006), currently preparing a post – PhD memorandum on “King Hussein of Jordan, as a military leader”. 

Genevieve Elizabeth Cadei-Millot

Currently working in the Banking Industry in Geneva.  Former President of the Alliance Francaise of Geneva. She has been working with the French Embassy in Bern on a number of cultural initiatives. 

Dr David Roberts

Associate Professor, Kings College London, Adjunct Faculty at Sciences Po