Scientific Committee
- Abu Zayd Nasr Hamid
- Amato, Giuliano (president)
- An-Na'im, Abdullahi
- Benhabib, Seyla
- Bosetti, Giancarlo
- Dallmayr, Fred R.
- Fagiolo, Silvio
- Filali-Ansary, Abdou
- Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri, Maria Teresa
- Garton Ash, Timothy
- Giddens, Anthony
- Gregorian, Vartan
- Hanafi, Hassan
- Herzog, Roman
- Jahanbegloo, Ramin
- Luzzatto, Amos
- Margalit, Avishai
- Michael Walzer
- Michalski, Krzysztof
- Riccardi, Andrea
- Roy, Olivier
- Thyssen-Bornemisza, Georg Heinrich
- Tibi, Bassam
- Toscano, Roberto
- Urbinati, Nadia
- von Schwarzenberg, Karl
- zu Fürstenberg, Nina
An-Na'im, Abdullahi
graduated in Law in England. He joined the Islamic reform movement of Ustadh Mahmoud Mohamed Taha from 1968 until the movement was suppressed in December 1984. Forced to exile, in 1993 he became the executive director of the Washington D.C-based human right organization Africa Watch. Since 1995 he has been serving as a professor at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta.