Leadership
A small team in Washington, D.C., supported by an Advisory Board of scholars, former diplomats, development professionals and artists.
Team
Team
Leyla Mammadli
Co-founder and CEO
Peace Ambassador with UN Women in Azerbaijan; master’s from Johns Hopkins SAIS; more than ten years in international relations, peacebuilding and nonprofit leadership.
Alexander Cromwell
Research Director and Board member
Assistant Professor at Utah Tech University; researches peace education and peacebuilding; more than fifteen years in youth conflict resolution programs.
Aidin Eminov
Researcher
Master’s candidate in international affairs at American University, focused on the Caucasus and Central Asia; Program Fellow at Civica.
Anvar Mustafazade
Program Officer
Business strategist and founder of two companies; organizes cultural events in the Washington, D.C. area.
Gulara Huseynli
Secretariat and youth ambassador
Finance master’s student and Dean’s Scholar at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.
Elnara Huseynova
Secretariat and youth ambassador
Master of Public Administration student at Columbia SIPA, focused on technology policy and AI governance.
Advisory Board
Advisory Board
Diana Cohen Altman
Advisory Board member
Former executive director of the Karabakh Foundation; earlier a Smithsonian exhibition editor and director of the B’nai B’rith National Jewish Museum and Archive.
Paul Michael Taylor
Honorary Advisory member
Research anthropologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History; head of its Asian Cultural History Program.
Dr. S. Frederick Starr
Advisory Board member
Founding chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and of the Kennan Institute.
Zeba Zebunnesa
Advisory Board member
Peace ambassador and community leader focused on multifaith diplomacy, women’s empowerment and support for immigrants and refugees.
Lutful Kabir
Advisory Board member
Development professional with UN system, international NGO and academic experience across South and Southeast Asia, Africa, the South Caucasus and Central Asia.
Ashraf Haidari
Advisory Board member
Founder and President of Displaced International; former Ambassador of Afghanistan to Sri Lanka and Director-General of SACEP.
Turker Ozdogan
Advisory Board member
Ceramic artist and professor, exhibited in Washington, D.C. and internationally, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
