Advisory Committee
H.E. André Azoulay
Counselor to King Mohammed VI of Morocco
The Honorable Howard L. Berman
Former Chairman, House Foreign Affairs Committee, US Congress
Rafael Benoliel de Carvalho
Architect
Peter A. Benoliel
Chairman Emeritus, Quaker Chemical Corporation
H.E. Maria de Fatima Lima da Veiga
Former Ambassador of the Republic of Cape Verde to the United States
H.E. Aziz Mekouar
Former Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United States
H.E. Joao de Vallera
Former Ambassador of Portugal to the United States
H.E.Vernon Penner
Former United States Ambassador to Cape Verde
Edward Bergman
Innovative Development Services
Toby Dershowitz
President, The Dershowitz Group
Professor Aomar Boum
Department of Anthropology, University of California (UCLA)
Professor David M. Gitlitz
Former Professor, Department of Languages, University of Rhode Island
Isabel Ferreira Gould, PhD
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Independent Scholar
Sofia de Oliveira Lima
CVJHP Representative, Cape Verde
Daniel Mariaschin
Executive Vice President, B’nai B’rith International
Januario Nascimento
Descendant, Auday family; former president, ADAD
Professor Sulayman S. Nyang
Department of African Studies, Howard University
Professor Daniel J. Schroeter
Department of History, University of Minnesota
Professor José Alberto Tavim
Senior Researcher, Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon
José Tomás Veiga
Former Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs, Cape Verde
Gwen Zuares
American Sephardi Association
Nuno Wahnon Martins
Director, European Affairs, European Jewish Congress
*We regret to inform that CVJHP advisory committee member, Professor Russell Hamilton, former Dean of Vanderbilt University Graduate School and expert in the history and literature of Lusophone Africa, passed away in February 2016. We will miss his longstanding friendship, commitment and wisdom.