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.