Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. is President of the CIHC, University Professor, Director of The Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University, Director of the Tropical Disease Center at Lenox Hill Hospital, Clinical Professor of Tropical Medicine and Molecular Parasitology at New York University School of Medicine, Chief Medical Advisor for Counterterrorism, NYPD, Professor of International Humanitarian Affairs at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Senior Consultant to the United Nations Health Service, and President-General of the American-Irish Historical Society.

Dr. Cahill received degrees from Fordham University, Cornell University School of Medicine, The Royal College of Surgeons in England, and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He holds numerous fellowships, distinguished awards, and several dozen honorary doctorates.

Dr. Cahill served as Director of Clinical Tropical Medicine in Egypt and Sudan while in the U.S. Navy and continued active medical research for the next forty years in Africa, Latin America, and the Near and Far East, with long-term programs in Somalia, Sudan, India, and Nicaragua.

From 1975-81, Dr. Cahill served concurrently as the Special Assistant to the Governor for Health Affairs, Chairman of the Health Planning Commission, and Chairman of the Health Research Council of New York State. From 1981-93 he was a Senior Member of the New York City Board of Health.

He has written and edited twenty-nine books and more than two hundred articles on subjects ranging from tropical disease to humanitarian and foreign affairs, Irish literature, and public health.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali is President of the Egyptian National Commission for Human Rights, President of the International Panel on Democracy and Development, UNESCO, President of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, and President of the Institute for Mediterranean Political Studies, Monaco.

Boutros-Ghali holds an LL.B from Cairo University and a Ph. D. in international law from Paris University. He was Professor of International Law and International Relations at Cairo University, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (1977-1991), a member of the Egyptian Parliament (1987-1991), and Deputy Prime Minister before being elected Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1992.

Peter Tarnoff is President of the International Advisory Corporation based in San Francisco. From 1962-1982, he was a career Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State serving in Nigeria, Vietnam, Germany, France, Luxembourg, and Washington, D.C., where he served as Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Special Assistant to Secretaries of State, Cyrus Vance and Edmund Muskie. He was President of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1986-1993) and returned to government service as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs (1993-1997).

Rev. Joseph A. O’Hare, S.J. is currently the Vice President of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was President Emeritus of Fordham University from 1984 to 2003. His 19-year tenure as President is the longest in the 164-year history of the University.

Prior to coming to Fordham, Father O’Hare had been the Editor-in-Chief of America, the weekly journal of opinion published by Jesuits of the United States and Canada. He currently is an associate editor of America. He also acted as trustee of the Asia Society. In the public life of New York City, he has served on major charities and for 15 years, as chair of the Campaign Finance Board. Father O’Hare has also received numerous degrees and awards.

Abdulrahim Abby Farah, although retired, remains active in assisting his native Somalialand. He served for twenty years as Under-Secretary-General and Senior Political Advisor on African Affairs in the United Nations. He also was Somalia's Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

Eoin O'Brien, M.D. is Adjunct Professor at University College Dublin and is President of The Irish Heart Foundation. At the World Health Organization, he is Chairman of the Committee on Blood Pressure Measurement in Low Resource Settings.

O’Brien has published over 500 scientific papers on hypertension research, and is author of Blood Pressure Measurement and ABC of Hypertension. Professor O'Brien has written books on the history of medicine, including Conscience and Conflict: A Biography of Sir Dominic Corrigan, and A Portrait of Irish Medicine: An Illustrated History of Medicine in Ireland. A recognized scholar of Samuel Beckett, he has written The Beckett Country: Samuel Beckett's Ireland, and published, posthumously, Beckett's first novel Dream of Fair to Middling Women.

Lord David Owen is Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and President of the Enabling Partnership. He was a Member of Parliament for 26 years during which, under Labour Governments, he was Navy Minister, Health Minister, and Foreign Secretary. Lord Owen was a founder of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 and its leader from 1983-90. Prior to entering political life, he was a physician and neurologist. Lord Owen Lord Owen has served on a number of independent commissions including: Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues; Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues; Carnegie Commission on Preventing Armed Conflict. He was Chairman of Humanitas from 1990-2001, a charitable organization dedicated to public education on humanitarian issues.

Jan Eliasson is currently the United Nations Secretary-General Special Representative for Mediation in the Darfur Crisis. He was President of the United Nations General Assembly, Sweden’s Ambassador to the U.S. and to the U.N., Deputy Secretary of State, and Foreign Minister of Sweden. In 1992, Eliasson was appointed the first U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.

Peter Hansen is Diplomat-In-Residence at Fordham University's Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs. He retired from the United Nations after 28 years of service, the last nine as Commissioner-General of UNRWA. The 22,000 employees of UNRWA provide education, health, relief, and social services to more than 3.2 million registered Palestinian refugees living in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.

Mr. Hansen had been Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator as well as Executive Director of the Commission on Global Governance, Geneva (1992-1994). He has also served in numerous other senior positions within the U.N.

Mr. Hansen studied in Denmark and the United States. He completed his graduate and post-graduate work at Aarhus University in 1966. He is the author of several books and numerous articles in scholarly journals.

Lady Helen Hamlyn, FRCA, FRSA is the chair of the Helen Hamlyn Trust, a UK charity. Through The Helen Hamlyn Trust, she initiates projects involved with humanitarian concerns, medical research, and international and cultural initiatives, particularly in India at the World Heritage Site of Khajuraho and the heritage site at Nagaur in Rajasthan. Together with her husband, the late Paul Hamlyn, she created The Helen Hamlyn Foundation, which was dedicated to improving the lives of older people. Lady Hamlyn continues to help the elderly, principally through the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art in London, where she graduated as a fashion designer. At the Centre, students are encouraged to design with age in mind, to create for the older generation.

Among numerous awards, Lady Hamlyn was rewarded by the French Government with the accolade of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. She has also received honorary degrees from Fordham University, Imperial College, and the Royal College of Art.

Francis Mading Deng is U.N. Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide. He was also U.N. Special Representative on Internally Displaced Persons for over 12 years. Deng was Sudan's ambassador to Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden (1972-74), to the United States (1974-76), and to Canada (1980-83). He was Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (1976-80). In 1983, he declined the position of Sudan's permanent representative to the United Nations for reasons related to Sudan's civil war.

Throughout his career he has mixed diplomacy and academia. Deng has also devoted himself to researching, writing, and teaching on issues related to refugees, human rights, and conflict. He was distinguished professor of political science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and co-founder of the CUNY Graduate Center-Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement.

Dr. Deng has authored, co-authored, and edited almost thirty books, and a great many articles and reports on a variety of topics from anthropological studies to literary works to law, history, and conflict resolution. Deng holds a doctorate in law from Yale University.

Major General (Retired) Tim Cross was in the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) from 1971 to 2006. In 1975, he completed an In-Service Degree at the Royal Military College of Science. In 1980, he had a tour with the U.N. in Cyprus. He completed an MSc in Guided Weapons (GW) before attending the Army Staff College as a student in 1982.

In 1999, 101 Logistic Brigade deployed to Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo; he was the Commander of the Joint Force Logistic Component (JFLogC) for the UK Contribution to KFOR. He led the KFOR response to the Northern Macedonian Easter refugee crisis and also worked in Southern Albania helping with the refugees there.

He was appointed CBE in the subsequent operational awards. In 2002 he became involved in the planning for operations in Iraq and subsequently deployed to Washington, Kuwait, and Baghdad as the Deputy in the U.S.-led Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Affairs, later re-titled as the Coalition Provisional Authority. In 2003, he returned, took over as Team Leader of the End-to-End Implementation Team. General Tim Cross is married with three children and two grandsons.

Brendan H. Cahill is the Administrative Director of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation and its academic arm, the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University. As such he is directly responsible for all worldwide administrative and financial issues pertaining to those organizations. He has run programs in New York, Geneva, Cairo, Dublin, Istanbul, and Nairobi. He received his BA from Colby College and his MBA from Fordham University. Besides his work for the CIHC, Brendan sits on the boards of the American Irish Historical Society, the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and the Point Lookout Civic Association. He is a Trustee of The Helen Hamlyn Trust in London and a Director of the KMC Foundation in New York. He is married with three children and lives in New York City and Point Lookout, New York.

Larry Hollingworth is the Humanitarian Programs Director for the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC) as well as Visiting Professor of Humanitarian Studies at the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs of Fordham University in New York. Over the past few years, he has served as Humanitarian Coordinator on CIHC-sponsored missions for the United Nations in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and Pakistan.

After serving as a British Army officer for thirty years, Larry joined UNHCR and held assignments in Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea. He was appointed UNHCR Chief of Operations in Sarajevo, during the siege of the city in the Balkan conflict.

He is a frequent lecturer on relief and refugee topics in universities and is a commentator on humanitarian issues for the BBC.

Anthony Land is Program Officer at the CIHC. He is a graduate of Brunel University, where he received his Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Polymer Science and Technology in 1971 and 1972, respectively. From 1973 to 1985, he worked with a number of NGOs, including the Tear Fund and ACROSS, which is a consortium of NGOs working in Southern Sudan.  Mr. Land then worked within various departments at UNHCR from 1985 until his retirement in 2006.  While at the UNHCR, he worked in Pakistan, Indonesia, Malawi, Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo, among others.  He has been a lecturer and tutor at five International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance (IDHA) Courses and several CIHC short courses. Mr. Land is married with two children.

Albert J. Marchetti is the Vice President, International and Federal Relations of Hess Corporation. He joined the Corporation in 1984 and held positions in finance and accounting within the International Exploration and Production division prior to his current assignment. Mr. Marchetti is a frequent visitor to Africa and was responsible for leading the Corporation’s West Africa business unit from 1998 through 2001.

Mr. Marchetti is a graduate of the State University of New York at Oneonta (BS 1973) and Binghamton University (MS 1975). He is a New York State Certified Public Accountant and started his career with the international accounting firm KPMG where he specialized in multinational client service.

He is the Chief Financial Officer of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation.

Leo F. McGinity, Jr., Esq. is a member of the law firm of McGinity & McGinity, P.C. with offices in Garden City, New York. Mr. McGinity received his undergraduate degree in Economics, magna cum laude, from Niagara University and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. Mr. McGinity’s practice is concentrated in the areas of commercial litigation and corporate law. He has been admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. McGinity resides with his wife, Cindy, in Point Lookout, New York.