Organization
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CEMOFPSC) is an institution sponsored by The Foundation for the Social Promotion of Culture (FPSC). Its structure, small and agile, responds to its multidisciplinary character and whose objectives are to promote and spread wider knowledge of the elements that make up the countries in the Middle East.
The CEMOFPSC is made up of an advisory committee and a group of experts on Middle East matters.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
This is a high level consulting group made up of representatives from institutions and relevant personalities within the different work areas at CEMOFPSC. Its mission is to advise the Executive Committee’s definition and lines of action for the CEMOFPSC as well as executing specific actions.
Public Figures, Dignitaries and Organizations that make up the CEMOFPSC:
Associate Fellow, Middle East Program, Chatham House, London
Giuseppe Cassini
Italian Embassador
Samuel Hadas:
Israeli diplomat
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Justice and Information-ANP, Executive Director of the PalestinianCenter for the Dissemination of Democracy and Community Development (PANORAMA).
Youssef El Khalil:
Economist, Professor at the American University in Beirut, Director of the Lebanon Bank, President of the Association for the Development of Rural Capacities (ADR)
Mark Singleton
Development Expert
Manuel Cimadevilla
Casa Sefarad Delegate in Jerusalem
Beirut AmericanUniversity
Bethlehem University
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
This group is directly responsible for the creation and execution of the CEMOFPSC work program.
Pilar Lara, President of the Foundation for the Social Promotion of Culture
Macarena Cotelo, President of the Europe-Arab NGO-Network Development and Integration (READI); Project Director of the Foundation for the Social Promotion of Culture
Jumana Trad, Advisory Council member of the Foundation for the Social Promotion of Culture; Consultative body attached to the International Institute of Arabic Studies for the Muslim world; Honorary President of READI
Juan Kindelán, Executive Director of the Foundation for the Social Promotion of Culture
Ana Menéndez, Spanish diplomat