The Gateway Trust: People

Anne Beech

Anne Beech is Editorial Director of Pluto Press. She is also the founder of Junction Books, which subsequently became Fourth Estate. Since 1987 she has worked at Pluto Press and is a former non-executive director of the UK political weekly magazine New Statesman.

Jamal Khashoggi

Jamal Khashoggi is a journalist and publisher from Saudi Arabia, and former editor of the broadsheet newspapers, Arab News (in English) and Al-Watan (in Arabic). He is currently in London and working as an advisor to the Saudi Ambassador to Britain on media issues.

Robert Lamb

Robert Lamb is a broadcaster and founder of Television Trust for the Environment, a global charity that encourages the world’s broadcasters to devote more coverage to environmental issues. He is currently series producer of ‘Earth Report’, a half-hour weekly programme for BBC television.

Pauline Tiffen

Pauline Tiffen is founder of two fair-trade companies, Cafedirect and The Day Chocolate. She is also a founding member of the International Federation for Alternative Trade and the Small Farmers' Co-operative Society, and advises the World Bank on its projects that help small farmers in developing countries.

Roger van Zwanenberg

Roger van Zwanenberg is the founder of The Gateway Trust and Chairman of Pluto Press, the London-based publisher of progressive titles aimed at general and specialist readers. Trained as an economic historian of East Africa in 1975 he also founded Zed Press, the publisher of titles from and about the developing world, before moving to Pluto in 1987.

Kerim Yildiz

Kerim Yildiz is the founder and Executive Director of the Kurdish Human Rights Project, a London-based NGO that supports the rights of all those living in the Kurdish regions of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey and the former Soviet Union.

Project Director

Ehsan Masood

Ehsan Masood is The Gateway Trust’s Project Director. A science journalist, he is a former Director of Communications at Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) and Opinion Editor of New Scientist magazine.

International Advisory Group

Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi’

Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi’ is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Macdonald Center for the study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary. He is the author of ‘Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World’ and ‘Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in post-1967 Arab Intellectual History’.

Victoria Brittain

Victoria Brittain is a journalist and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. She was formerly a foreign correspondent and Associate Foreign Editor of The Guardian in London. Her most recent book is ‘Death of Dignity: a History of Angola's Civil War’.

Fiona Dove

Fiona Dove is Director of the Transnational Institute based in Amsterdam, a worldwide fellowship of scholar-activists. Prior to becoming Director of TNI, Fiona worked for the Congress of South African Trade Unions for ten years.

Susan George

Susan George is a writer and development campaigner from France. She is currently vice president of ATTAC France and the author of some 10 books including ‘How the Other Half Lives and Faith and Credit: the World Bank's Secular Empire’.

Mohammed Hassan

Mohammed Hassan is the founding Executive Director of the Academy of Science for the Developing World (TWAS), based in Trieste, Italy and President of the African Academy of Sciences in Nairobi, Kenya. Books he has published include: ‘Safe Drinking Water’ and ‘Conserving Biodiversity in Arid Regions’.

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and founder of its Centre for Research in Islamic History, Art and Culture, based in Istanbul, Turkey. A historian of science, his latest book is ‘Science and Learning in the Ottoman Empire: Western Influence, Local Institutions and the Transfer of Knowledge’.

Azza Karam

Azza Karam is Director of the Women's Program at the World Conference of Religions for Peace. Her latest books include ‘Women, Islamism and the State’ and ‘Transnational Political Islam: Globalization, Ideology and Power’.

Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, an internationally syndicated columnist, and author of the best-selling books ‘No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies’ and ‘Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate’.

Julia Marton Lefèvre

Julia Marton Lefèvre is Rector of the University for Peace in Costa Rica and Vice Chair of the World Resources Institute. She is a former Executive Director of Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) and of the International Council for Science (ICSU).

Ziauddin Sardar

Ziauddin Sardar is a writer and thinker from Britain and author of some 40 books on culture, faith, future studies and science. He is currently a Professor of Postcolonial Studies at City University London and editor of the journal ‘Futures’. His latest book is ‘Desperately Seeking Paradise: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim’.

Fuad Shaban

Fuad Shaban is Professor of English at the University of Petra in Amman, Jordan. Previously, he was Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University. His publications include – ‘Islam and the Arabs in Early American Thought: The Roots of Orientalism in America’.

Teodor Shanin

Teodor Shanin is founder and Rector of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. He is a sociologist and among the modern-day pioneers of the study of extreme poverty and informal economies. His main works include: ‘Peasants and Peasants Societies’ and ‘Informal Economies: Russia and the World’.

Ghada Talhami

Ghada H. Talhami is an associate member of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago and D. K. Pearsons Professor of Politics at Lake Forest College. She is Editor of ‘Arab Studies Quarterly’ and her latest book (forthcoming) is ‘Syria and the Palestinians: The Clash of Nationalism’.

Board of Trustees