2016 fulbright reentry seminar - institute for south asia...

This activity is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of

Educational and Cultural Affairs as part of the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program supported by the

people of the United States and partner countries around the world. For more information, visit fulbright.state.gov.

This activity is administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and

the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) at UC Berkeley.

2016 Fulbright Reentry Seminar

Institute for South Asia StudiesUniversity of California at Berkeley

April 27 – May 1, 2016

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ORIENTATION SPONSORS

United States Department of State Bureau of Educational Cultural Affairs (ECA) Washington, DC

U.S. Educational Foundation in PakistanSaleem Razaque

Program ManagerAli Zahoor MalikProgram Officer

South and Central Asia Fulbright Program Brooke L. Pearson

Program Officer

Bureau of South and Central Asian AffairsAjay Rao

Pakistan Desk Officer, Public Diplomacy

Institute for South Asia Studies at UC BerkeleySanchita Saxena

Executive DirectorPuneeta Kala

Program DirectorSridevi Prasad

Program Assistant

Institute of International EducationHanan Thabet

Assistant Director

Africa, Near East, South & Central AsiaForeign Fulbright Programs Division

Bassim Abbassi

Assistant Director

Foreign Fulbright Enrichment Programs

Nina Hasenstein Senior Program Officer

Foreign Fulbright Programs Division

Sarah McCormickSenior Program Officer

Pakistan Foreign Fulbright Program

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About the seminar organizer

I N S T I T U T E F O R S O U T H A S I A S T U D I E Sat the University of California, Berkeley

One of the world's leading institutes for research and programs on South Asia, the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) at the University of California, Berkeley works with faculty

members, graduate students, community members, private institutions, and non-profit organizations to deepen understanding of the region and to create new generations of scholars of South Asia.

ISAS actively:

• Supports teaching and research activities of South Asia-related faculty and their students

• Initiates and administers research projects

• Organizes and hosts lectures, colloquia, seminars, and research conferences

• Develops financial resources for the enhancement of South Asia studies

• Encourages interdisciplinary, regional, and comparative studies of South Asia

• Creates outreach programs in coordination with other institutions of primary, secondary, and post-secondary education

• Administers fellowships and grants for the study of South Asia

• Publishes language textbooks, research notes, and conference reports and an annual newsletter

• Supports cultural and community activities relating to South Asia and South Asians

The Institute is one of the many Organized Research Units on the UC Berkeley campus that are part of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (VCRO) which seeks to maintain a research environment that fosters creativity, collaboration and community on campus.

10 Stephens Hall, UC BerkeleyBerkeley, CA 94720-2310

southasia.berkeley.edu

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Dear Fulbright Scholar,

Welcome to the 2016 Fulbright Re-entry & Social Enterprise Seminar at the University of

California, Berkeley. We look forward to a four days of stimulating conversation and dialogue.

The seminar will be held in the Junior Ballroom, on the second floor of the Oakland Marriott City Center (1001 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94607. Tel: (510) 451-4000), a modern downtown hotel, conveniently located within a 3-minute walk from the 12th St. Oakland City Center BART station. You will also be staying in this hotel.

• If you are checked in by 5 pm on Wednesday, April 27, please go to the Junior Ballroom for registration followed by welcome addresses and dinner.

• The seminar will begin at 9 am on Thursday, April 28 in the Junior Ballroom.

• Please make sure to have your name badge (that you received when you checked

in) and your agenda (that you received at registration) with you throughout the conference!

• Your hotel reservation comes with complimentary breakfast for the duration of your

stay. Breakfast on all days will be from 7 am to 8:30 am in the Junior Ballroom.

• Please note that the closing dinner on Saturday, April 29 will be held in the Skyline

Room at 6:30pm• Please also note that your room rental is covered by us. However anything over that,

such as in-room movies, long distance telephone charges, room service, WiFi, laundry, etc. will have to be paid by you.

I’d like to express my gratitude that you have taken time out of your very busy schedules to attend this seminar. We have worked for several months to put together an exciting and focused agenda, and we hope we are able to provide you with a valuable and enriching experience.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make your stay with us more comfortable.

Best wishes,

Lawrence Cohen

Director, Institute for South Asia Studies

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D A Y 1 : W E L C O M EWednesday, April 27, 2016

5 pm – 9 pm

WELCOME AND KEYNOTE

Location Junior Ballroom, Oakland Marriott City Center

Description This opening session will introduce participants to the hosting organization, the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley, and to social enterprise through the keynote.

Details 5 pm – 5:30 pm Registration

5:30 pm – 6 pm Opening Remarks• Munis Faruqui (Associate Professor,

Department of South and Southeast Asia

Studies; Co-Chair of the Berkeley Pakistan Initiative)

• David Ranz, Director of the Office of Pakistan Affairs, U.S. Department of State

6 pm - 6:30 pm Welcome Address• Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani,

Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States

6:30 pm – 7 pm Keynote Address• Amra Tareen

Founder of LittleCast, Allvoices.com, and President of OPEN Silicon Valley

7 pm – 9 pm Banquet Dinner

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS

PLEASE ARRIVE BY 5 PM TO THE JUNIOR BALLROOM FOR REGISTRATION.

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D A Y 2 : G E T T I N G R E A D Y T O R E T U R NThursday, April 28, 2016

9 am – 6 pm

9 AM – 11 AM VIRTUAL FULBRIGHT ALUMNI PANEL


Speaker/s • Pakistan Fulbright alumni A• Pakistan Fulbright alumni B• Pakistan Fulbright alumni C

Description Three Pakistan Fulbright alumni representing a diversity of professional disciplines will hold a virtual panel discussion with the

Fulbright students. The panelists will present on their background, professional careers, and how they navigated their return to Pakistan.

Details 9 – 10 am Experience Sharing

10 – 11 am Q&A session

11 AM – 11:15 AM COFFEE BREAK

11:15 AM – 12 PM AGENDA OVERVIEW


Speaker • Dr. Sanchita Saxena Executive Director, Institute for South Asia Studies

Director, Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies, UC Berkeley

Description This opening session will provide participants with the key themes and goals of the four day seminar. The agenda and details for each workshop will be given. Participants will also be introduced to one another.

12 PM – 1 PM LUNCH


Meal Buffet arrangement, free seating

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Day 2 contd.

1 PM – 5 PM MAKING THE TRANSITION: RE-ENTRY WORKSHOP FOR PAKISTAN


Speaker/s • Jason Patent (Director of the Center for Intercultural Leadership, UC Berkeley)

• Jess Delegencia (Intercultural Training Specialist, Center for Intercultural Leadership, UC Berkeley)

• Lauren Moloney-Egnatios (Intercultural Training Specialist, Center for Intercultural Leadership, UC Berkeley)

Description The objective of this workshop is to provide returning Fulbrighters with ideas and opportunities to integrate all that they have gained through their experience abroad into their current lives at home and possibly into future career decisions. Session will include breakout groups for attendees to discuss their re-entry into Pakistani society, reflect on their experience in the United States, and develop strategies to address reverse culture shock and other re-entry challenges.

6 PM - 8 PM DINNER


Details 6 pm - 6:05 pm Introduction• Lawrence Cohen, Director, Institute

for South Asia Studies, Sarah Kailath Professor of India Studies and Professor of Anthropology and of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

6:05 pm - 6:35 pm Keynote: High Impact Entrepreneurship in Pakistan and Civic Innovation• Dilawar Syed

President of Freshdeck

6:35 - 6:55 pm Q&A

7 pm - 8 pm Dinner

Meal Buffet arrangement, free seating

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D A Y 3 : S O C I A L E N T E R P R I S E S & S I T E V I S I T SFriday, April 29, 2016

9 am – 8 pm

9 AM – 10:30 AM MAP VEST: MY POWER, YOUR POWER


Speaker/s • Sudha Shetty, Assistant Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Description This session will teach participants how to map their own power and

understand how to use it to leverage or engage in – starting up a social enterprise, community engagement, fund-raising, legislation or lobbying.

10:30 AM – 10:40 AM COFFEE BREAK

10:40 AM – 12:30 PM SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: AN INTRODUCTION


Speaker/s • Richard Martinez, Juma Ventures• Chad Sterbenz, Kiva• Asim Fayaz, Technology for People Initiative• Moderator: George Scharffenberger, UC Berkeley

Description This panel will provide an overview of social enterprise by providing insights into various aspects of this field from practitioners of social enterprise. These various aspects will provide participants with an

understanding of the intersectionalities of social enterprise and provide insight into where the field is heading.

Details 10:40 – 11:00 am Overview of Social Enterprise• George Scharffenberger, Program Director,

Masters of Development Practice Program, UC Berkeley

11:00 – 11:20 am The Evolution of a Social Enterprise• Richard Martinez, Juma Ventures

11:20 – 11:40 am An Inside Look into Kiva• Chad Sterbenz, Kiva

11:40 – 12:00 pm Technology and Social Enterprise• Asim Fayaz, Technology for People Initiative

12:00– 12:30 pm Q&A

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Day 3 contd.

12:30 PM – 1:15 PM PAKISTAN@BERKELEY: A CAL STUDENT’S PERSPECTIVE


Speaker • Umar Akram

Co-Founder, Ammitips Class of 2017, College of Letters & Science, UC Berkeley

Talk Title Engaging Ideas to Make a Difference

Meal Boxed lunches, free seating

1:15 – 5 PM SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SITE VISITS

Description A global hub for social entrepreneurs, the Bay Area is home to many organizations which have revolutionized the field of social entrepreneurship. We are fortunate that many of them have agreed to provide us with a behind-the-scenes look at their ground-breaking organizations.

We will visit many of these organizations and meet the people behind the visionary ideas and everyday operations.

Organization List Bay Area Youth SEED (Oakland)UCB Lead: Saad Hirani

An organization that supports the development of community-led social enterprises by providing training, resources and investment to young innovators who traditionally face barriers to

economic opportunities.

Delancey Street Foundation (San

Francisco)UCB Lead: Sridevi Prasad

A nonprofit organization that provides residential rehabilitation services and vocational training for substance abusers and convicted criminals. It

reintegrates its residents into mainstream society by operating various businesses which are wholly managed and run by the residents themselves.

Angaza Design

(San Francisco)UCB Lead: Umar Akram

A organization that is focused on making solar energy affordable to everyone through financing Pay-As-You-Go technology. Located in San Francisco, California and Nairobi, Kenya

Micro Documentaries(San Francisco)UCB Lead: Dinshaw Xerxes Avari

Micro-Documentaries works closely with you to translate your vision into compelling short films that invite your audience to become part of your

vision and to train your teams to master the craft of

storytelling for social innovation.

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LeadGenius (Berkeley)

UCB Lead:

LeadGenius is a powerful way to automate sales using a combination of virtual staffers and technology. It is currently used by hundreds of high-growth companies to accelerate their sales development operations.


• PLEASE ARRIVE IN THE LOBBY AT 1:15 PM FOR YOUR SITE VISIT.

• PLEASE REFER TO YOUR NAME TAG FOR YOUR ASSIGNED SITE VISIT GROUPS.

• AFTER YOUR SITE VISIT IS OVER, THE SHUTTLE BUS WILL COME AND PICK YOU UP AND DROP YOU OFF AT PIER 39 FOR THE EVENING.

• PLEASE USE THIS TIME TO ENJOY THE SIGHTS OF SAN FRANCISCO.

• AT THE BACK OF THIS AGENDA IS A LIST OF PLACES AROUND PIER 39 THAT YOU CAN WALK TO.

• DINNER IS AT 8:30 PM IN FISHERMAN’S WHARF AT EITHER BUBBA GUMP OR THE HARD ROCK CAFE (MARKED BY RED BOXES ON MAP RIGHT).

• PLEASE REFER TO YOUR NAME TAG FOR YOUR ASSIGNED DINNER RESTAURANT

• THE SHUTTLE BUS WILL PICK YOU UP AT 10:30 PM AFTER YOUR DINNER. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CONFIRM THE PICK UP SPOT WITH YOUR DRIVER.

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D A Y 4 : “ O P E N ” C O N F E R E N C E , W R A P U P, A N D C L O S I N G D I N N E R

Saturday, April 30, 2016 9 am – 9 pm

7:30 - 9 AM SHUTTLE DRIVE TO SANTA CLARA• PLEASE ARRIVE AT THE HOTEL LOBBY BY 7:30 AM FOR YOUR SHUTTLE TO SANTA

CLARA FOR THE OPEN FORUM.• THE SHUTTLE WILL ARRIVE AT THE SANTA CLARA CONVENTION CENTER AT 4:30 PM

TO BRING YOU BACK TO THE HOTEL.

9 - 4:30 PM ORGANIZATION OF PAKISTANI ENTREPRENEURS (OPEN), SILICON VALLEY: ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Location Santa Clara Convention Center

Description OPEN, Silicon Valley is a network of Pakistan-related entrepreneurs and professionals who help each other to achieve their professional goals. They conduct mentoring sessions, major conferences, networking events and workshops throughout the year. Their annual conference brings together a multitude of hardened Silicon Valley veterans and rising stars who will deliver keynotes, participate in panel discussions, lead workshops and offer networking opportunities.

Agenda 9 – 9:05 am Welcome!• Amra Tareen, President, OPEN SV

9:05 – 9:45 am Morning Keynote: Would You Like Apps With That? McDonald’s Digital Future RevealedHow to be an entrepreneur in a big company.• Atif Rafiq, Chief Digital Officer of McDonald’s, • Moderator: Umair Khan, Founder Folio3

9:45 – 10:30 am New Rules for Starting Up A workshop on how to avoid the five mistakes that kill startups

• Naeem Zafar, CEO at an IoT Startup

10:30 – 11:15 am Young Entrepreneurs: Finding Your Company and PassionA conversation on what becomes an inspiration for

launching a new company• Anum Tariq, Photography Manager, Shutterfly Inc.• Kashif Ali, Co-founder, Endaga• Moderator: Anita Bist, President (Palo Alto Chapter),

National Association of Professional Women

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11:15 - 12 pm Entrepreneurship at National University of Sciences & TechnologyPanel discussion with members from NUST, a Pakistani university that focuses on technology, innovation, entrepreneurship and community service.

• Muhammad Asghar, Rector, NUST

• Shiraz Bashir, Co-founder & VP, NUST• Moderator: Ashar Aziz, Founder, FireEye

12 - 1 pm Lunch

1 - 2 pm Social Entrepreneurs: Running a Startup Serving Humanity• Rameeza Moin, CEO, Transparent Hands• Maryam Haq-Rahman, Founder, S.V. Chapter –

Pakistan Education Foundation (PEF)• Moderator: Imran Qureshi, Co-founder, Stealth Talent

Development

2 - 3 pm Say Jai Ho! To This Slumdog With a Millionaire MindThe Founder of an organization that works to ensure basic amenities for the homeless and hungry poor in Pakistan’s slums discusses his journey so far.

• Muhammad Sabir, Founder, Slumabad.

3 - 4 pm Keynote: How to Get Startups Funded?Tips and techniques for getting funding for your startup with

• Mamoon Hamid, General Partner of Social Capital• Qasar Younis, COO, Y Combinator

4 - 4:30 pm The OPEN Forum: Some ReflectionsA debrief session for students to reflect on the sessions that they have just attended and connect them to the

goals of social entrepreneurship.Umair Khan, Folio3 Founder and member of OPEN

4:30 - 6 PM SHUTTLE DRIVE TO OAKLAND MARRIOTT.

6:30 - 9 PM WRAP UP

Location Skyline Room, Oakland Marriott City Center

Description This closing session will wrap-up the re-entry seminar. It will provide participants an opportunity to reflect on the skills and knowledge that they have gained during the past few days. The closing session will also allow participants the opportunity to create goals for their futures. Located in the scenic Skyline room, participants will be able to mingle together before leaving the Bay Area the next day.

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Day 4 contd.

Details 6:30 - 6:45 pm Moving Forward• Lawrence Cohen, Director, Institute for South Asia

Studies, Sarah Kailath Professor of India Studies and Professor of Anthropology and of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley

6:45 - 7:39 pm Full Seminar Debrief• Asim Fayaz

Founder, Technology for People Initiative

Graduate Student, MDP Program, UC Berkeley

7:30 - 7:45 pm Closing Remarks• Brooke Pearson, Program Officer, Afghanistan and

Pakistan Fulbright Program, U.S. Department of State

8 - 9 PM CLOSING DINNER


• PLEASE ARRIVE AT THE HOTEL LOBBY BY 7:30 AM FOR YOUR SHUTTLE TO SANTA CLARA FOR THE OPEN FORUM.

• THE SHUTTLE WILL ARRIVE AT THE SANTA CLARA CONVENTION CENTER AT 4:30 PM TO BRING YOU BACK TO THE HOTEL.

• DINNER WILL BEGIN AT 6:30 PM.

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D A Y 5 : D E P A R T U R E SSunday, May 1, 2016

9 am – 6 pm


• PLEASE SEE THE BART SCHEDULE BELOW FOR TRAIN TIMES TO THE AIRPORT. • PLEASE LEAVE AT LEAST 2-3 HOURS BEFORE YOUR FLIGHT FROM THE HOTEL.

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S P E A K E R B I O SAjay RaoPakistan Desk Officer, Public Diplomacy, Bureau of South and

Central Asian Affairs

Ajay Rao is the Pakistan Desk Officer for Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Ajay is in the Foreign Service and has previously served as staff assistant in the Bureau of Western Hemi-sphere Affairs and as consular officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Mumbai, India. He graduated from Mills College with an M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing in 2005 and from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in English in 2000. He is married; both his wife and he are huge pet lovers and have two cats, one from India and one from South Korea.

Ali Zahoor MalikProgram Office, U.S. Educational Foundation in Pakistan

Mr. Ali Zahoor Malik is a Program Officer at the United States Educational Foun-dation in Pakistan (USEFP). Ali joined the USEFP in 2010 as an Assistant Program Officer where he administered various programs including the Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) for Student Leaders on Comparative Public Policy, Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) for Women Leaders and Global Undergraduate Exchange program. Currently he is administrating Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Pakistan program, Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) program and the Foreign Fulbright degree program. He completed his MBA from School of Business and Commerce, Pakistan. Mr. Ali has over 12 years of experience including working for Banking, Telecom and the Oil and Gas sectors.

Amra TareenPresident, OPEN, Silicon Valley

Amra Tareen is a Technology Evangelist & Commercialization Expert. She is currently the President of OPEN, Silicon Valley. She co-founded LittleCast and was the CEO until March 2015. Previously Amra was the founder and CEO of allvoices.com, a global people’s media company where anyone can report news or their story from anywhere in the world via cell phone or PC. Prior to Allvoices, Amra was a partner at the venture capital firm, Sevin Rosen Funds. Amra has an MBA from Harvard Univer-sity and a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of New South Wales, Australia.

Asim FayazMasters of Development Practice Candidate, UC Berkeley

Asim is a second-year Masters of Development Practice candidate at UC Berke-ley and holds a BS in Computer Science from LUMS. Prior to graduate school, he founded the Technology for People Initiative, a Google and UKAid-funded technolo-gy and design startup, worked for the World Bank in Pakistan on tech-enabled gov-ernance reform, which included the USD 50M Punjab Public Management Reform Program, and organized TEDxLahore. He will be joining Premise Data, an SF-based startup, as a Sales Engineer in June. He grew up in Lahore and tweets @asim_fayaz.

Bassim AbbassiAssistant Director, Foreign Fulbright Enrichment Programs

Bassim Abbassi is Assistant Director for Enrichment Programs at IIE. He coordinates the planning and administration of Fulbright enrichment seminars and Gateway programs. Prior to joining IIE in 2005, Mr. Abbassi worked as a Program Integrity As-surance, Reviewer for the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund, Schools and Libraries Program. The Schools and Libraries Program is intend-ed to ensure that schools and libraries have access to affordable telecommunica-tions and information services. Mr. Abbassi worked in the Civil Rights department at the Council on American-Islamic Relations New York Chapter. In 2002 he attended the United Nations Special Session: A World Fit For Children as an NGO represen-tative. He completed a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Rutgers University in New Jersey, and holds a Professional Certificate in Global Affairs from New York University. He has a rudimentary knowledge of Arabic and Spanish.

Brooke L. PearsonProgram Officer, South and Central Asia

Fulbright Program

Brooke Pearson is a Program Officer in the South and Central Asia Branch, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and coordinates the Fulbright Student program for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Prior to joining the State Department in 2011, Ms. Pearson worked with the Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program, and is a Fulbright alumnus of the ETA program in Macau. A native of Mary land, she completed her Master’s studies at George Washington University’s Elliott

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School of International Affairs, and her bachelor’s studies at Azusa Pacific University in California.

Chad SterbenzRisk Director, Kiva

As Risk Director, Chad is responsible for facilitating the management of risk across Kiva’s portfolio of diverse field partners in support of Kiva’s mission. Chad joined Kiva in 2013 after having worked since 2007 at SEAF, a non-profit investment man-agement group with a focus on impact investing, where he developed and applied diverse portfolio and risk management tools and processes, and where he was responsible for the management of direct equity and debt investments in small busi-nesses in Vietnam and Peru. Chad has been passionate about the study and prac-tice of innovative methods to promote economic development and alleviate poverty

since his service in the US Peace Corps in Kyrgyzstan, where he taught social stud-ies, economics, and writing courses at a local technical university. Chad holds an MA in International Development from American University in Washington, DC, and a BA in Anthropology and Classical Archaeology from Bowdoin College in Maine. Chad has lived and worked abroad extensively as an investment management pro-fessional, a teacher, and an archaeologist, including long stretches in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Bangladesh, Peru, and Vietnam.

David J. RanzDirector, Office of Pakistan Affairs, U.S Department of State

A native of New York, David J. Ranz is a member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Counselor. A career diplomat since 1992 focused on the Arab world, Mr. Ranz is currently Director of the Office of Pakistan Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Ranz previously served as Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, and Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt; and as Spokesman and Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. Mr. Ranz has also served in Rabat, Morocco; Jerusalem; Karachi, Pakistan; and Washington, D.C.; and has participated on U.S. delegations to numerous inter-national conferences and negotiations, including the Wye River (Israeli-Palestinian) and Shepherdstown (Israeli-Syrian) peace talks. In 2004, Mr. Ranz was awarded the State Department’s Herbert Salzman Award for International Economic Performance in recognition of “his vital work pursuing structural reform of the Palestinian Author-ity (PA) with active, on the ground diplomacy involving international and Palestinian officials, his timely and insightful reporting, and his excellent policy advice.” In 2013, Mr. Ranz was selected as the runner-up for the State Department’s James Clement Dunn Award for “the sustained excellence of his performance as Political Counselor in Cairo.” Mr. Ranz has also received four U.S. Department of State Superior Honor Awards (1994, 2000, 2002, and 2011), a U.S. Department of the Army Command-er’s Award for Public Service from General (ret.) David Petraeus (2007), and one Meritorious Honor Award (2010), and is a member of national Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Ranz earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Yale University in 1991 and a Masters in Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 2005. Mr. Ranz is married and has two children. He speaks Arabic, French, and Hebrew.

Dilawar SyedPresident, North America Operations, Freshdesk

Dilawar heads the company’s North America operations, including sales, marketing, partner ecosystem and customer support. Prior to Freshdesk, Dilawar was CEO at Yonja Media Group, a social media company, and ran platform strategy and oper-ations at Yahoo! Earlier, Dilawar led several product efforts at Siebel Systems and SAP. Active in entrepreneurship development and civic causes, Dilawar served on President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders. A history buff, Dilawar enjoys going on long hikes with his kids.

George ScharffenbergerProgram Director, Master of Development Practice, UC Berkeley

George has 40 years of experience in development practice including work in health, agriculture, forestry, biodiversity conservation, community development, education, microfinance, IT and entrepreneurship. In addition to the MDP program, George is a lecturer at the Haas School of Business where his focus is on the international expe-riential learning components of the MBA programs. Prior to joining the MDP team,

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George was the Special Assistant for International Development Policy and Practice at UC Berkeley where his man- date was to increase the impact of multi-disciplinary, issue-based research and curricular programs related to global challenges such as poverty alleviation, poor health, climate change adaptation, food security and envi-ronmental degradation. He was the founding executive director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies after having held leadership positions in the international NGOs World Links, VITA and Pact. He has an MPhil from the Institute of Develop-ment Studies at the University of Sussex (UK) and a BS from Georgetown Universi-ty’s School of Foreign Service. He got his start in development practice as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, West Africa.

H.E. Mr. Jalil Abbas JilaniAmbassador of the

Islamic Republic of

Pakistan to the United States of America

Ambassador Jilani assumed his responsibilities as Ambassador of Pakistan on Jan-uary 2, 2014. Prior to this appointment he served as Foreign Secretary of Pakistan from March 2012 to December 2013. A career diplomat Ambassador Jilani has also served as Ambassador of Pakistan to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Union (2009-2012) and as Pakistan’s High Commissioner to Canberra, Australia (2007-2009). In his professional life, Ambassador Jilani has specialized in South Asian affairs and remained Director India (1992-1995), Deputy High Commissioner/Acting High Commissioner to New Delhi (1999-2003) and Director General South Asia and SAARC (2003-2007). In 2005 he also served as the Government’s Spokesman on Foreign Affairs. From 1989 to 1992, Ambassador Jilani served as Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Secretariat. His other overseas assignments included; Jeddah (1983-1985), London (1985-1988) and Washington (1995-1999). Ambassador Jilani holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law and M.Sc. in Defence and Strategic Studies. In his spare time, he plays golf and is an ardent reader

Hanan ThabetAssistant Director, Africa, Near East, South & Central Asia, Fulbright Foreign Programs Division, Institute of International Education

Hanan Thabet works for the Institute of International Education (IIE) with the Ful-bright Foreign Student Program where she is Assistant Director for Africa, the Near East and South and Central Asia regions. Hanan has been working in the field of international student exchange for nearly a decade, specializing in managing com-plex international education-based scholarship programs and corporate responsibil-ity initiatives, both domestically and internationally. Hanan has also held significant internships with organizations focused on the region, including UNDP, Human Rights Watch and the Coalition for the International Criminal Court for the Middle East and North Africa. Hanan received an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from New York Uni-versity and a B.A. from the American University in Cairo. She is fluent in written and spoken Arabic and speaks both the Egyptian and Levantine dialects.

Jason PatentDirector for Intercultural

Leadership, I House, UC Berkeley

Jason Patent, Director of the Center for Intercultural Leadership (CIL), is responsi-ble for building I-House’s existing training programs and expanding them to meet the needs of increasing numbers of I-House residents, UC Berkeley campus units, and external businesses and non-profit organizations. Jason has an undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard, a Master’s degree in the same field from Stanford University, and he completed an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Linguistics at UC Berkeley. Jason is known for his ability to teach and to find practical uses for theo-retical concepts. He is committed to using his skills and experiences to foster under-standing and successful collaboration among international populations. His previous professional roles include: American Co-Director of the Hopkins–Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China; Inaugural Director, Beijing Cen-ter, Stanford Bing Overseas Studies Program; Consultant at Gap International; Vice President, Communications & Marketing at Orchestrall, Inc.

Jess DelegenciaIntercultural Training Specialist, Center for Intercultural Leadership, I House, UC Berkeley

Jess Delegencia, M.A., M.Div., is the Facilitator for the Intercultural Leadership Ini-tiative certificate program at I-House. He is an Intercultural Training Specialist for the Center for Intercultural Leadership (CIL) and an Adjunct Faculty at the Pacific School of Religion. After graduating from UC Berkeley as an international student, Jess earned two Masters degrees, studying in Berkeley, CA and Cape Town, South

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Africa. He is also a PhD candidate in Organizational Leadership. With over 20 years experience in organizational leadership and intercultural training, Jess is passionate about developing transformational global leaders. He has done work in the Philip-pines, Mexico, Ecuador, Thailand, Bangladesh, Cambodia and India, with a particular concern for poverty alleviation, restorative justice and Philippine affairs.

Lauren Moloney-Egnatios, Intercultural Training Specialist, Center for Intercultural

Leadership, International House, UC Berkeley

Lauren Moloney-Egnatios, M.A., is an Intercultural Training Specialist for the Center for Intercultural Leadership (CIL) at International House Berkeley. Her primary role is

to design and deliver intercultural workshops to corporate and non-profit clients, as well as to U.C.Berkeley staff and students. Prior to joining the CIL team, she con-sulted for various organizations, and advised and developed programs in the Global Engagement Office at Santa Clara University and in American University’s Career Center. Fluent in Spanish, Lauren spent 4 years working in Spain as an ESL instruc-tor, cross-cultural trainer, and developer of international exchange programs for low-income youth. She has nearly 10 years of experience in the field of international and intercultural education, as a student, researcher, consultant, programmer, and educator/trainer. Lauren received a Masters of Arts in International Communication and Education from the School of International Service at American University and a

B.A. in Organizational Development and Spanish at the University of Michigan.

Lawrence CohenDirector, Institute for South Asia

Studies, Professor of Anthropology and South and Southeast Asian

Studies, UC Berkeley

Lawrence Cohen is Professor of Anthropology and South & Southeast Asia Stud-ies, and Chair of the Institute for South Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary field is the critical study of medicine, health, and the body. His book No Aging in India is about Alzheimer’s disease, the body and the voice in time, and the cultural politics of senility. His two current projects are India Tonite, which examines homoerotic identification and representation in the context of political and market logics in urban north India, and The Other Kidney about the nature of immu-nosuppression and its accompanying global traffic in organs for transplant.

Munis FaruquiAssociate Professor, Department of South

and Southeast Asian


Munis D. Faruqui is a historian and Associate Professor in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. He focuses on the Muslim experience in South Asia, especially during the Mughal period. His books include Princes of the Mughal Em-pire, 1504-1719 (Cambridge, 2012), Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History (co-edited with Richard Eaton, David Gilmartin and Sunil Kumar)(Cambridge, 2013), and Religious Interactions in Mughal India (co-edited with Vasudha Dalmia)(Oxford, 2014). His various journal articles have interrogated the relationship be-tween religion and politics in the life and work of the Mughal prince, Dara Shukoh (1615-59), the founding decades (c. 1720-40) of the princely state of Hyderabad, and the creation of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605). He is currently working on a book about the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707). In 2014, Dr. Faruqui was one of three recipients of UC-Berkeley’s most prestigious honor for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Award. The award recognizes teach-ing that “incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a lifelong impact.” Dr. Faruqui also is the co-chair (along with Dr. Saba Mahmood) of two campus initiatives: Berkeley Urdu Initiative and Berkeley Pakistan Initiative.

Puneeta KalaProgram Director, Institute for South Asia


Puneeta Kala is an East Asianist who specialized in Japanese studies. She holds one M.Phil and three MA degrees with the most recent from Harvard University. She has taught courses on comparative religion at Harvard University, the University of Vermont and the University of San Francisco and has been involved in a number of programming and fund-raising initiatives at Harvard and elsewhere.

Richard MartinezChief of Social

Enterprise, Juma Ventures

Richard M. Martinez is Juma’s Chief of Social Enterprise and comes to the organiza-tion with over 15 years of experience in management consulting, business develop-ment and process improvement. He has a proven history of implementing strategic solutions and forging partnerships in the sports and fitness industry, health and wellness, marketing agencies and non-profit sector. Richard is responsible for the

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management and growth of Juma Ventures’ nationally recognized Social Enterprise in San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Clara, Seattle, New Orleans and New York. To-day, Juma holds concession contracts with 12 professional sports venues in Major League Baseball (MLB), National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Associ-ation (NBA) and Major League Soccer (MLS). Prior to joining Juma, Richard served as Executive Director at Pacific West Athletics, Northern California’s largest outdoor fitness organization. As a corporate consultant, Richard specialized in the areas of retention, motivation, time management, goal setting, and developing total health productivity in the workplace. Mr. Martinez holds an MBA with an emphasis in en-trepreneurship from the University of San Francisco and a Masters in Sports Man-agement also from USF. He received a BS in Industrial Technology from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Richard resides in Corte Madera with his wife and two children.

Saleem RazaqueProgram Manager, U.S. Educational Foundation in Pakistan

A graduate of Government College Lahore and Punjab University, with majors in American and European History, Saleem has more than 25 years of development sector experience in various US agencies and corporate sector mostly related to administering the USAID funded scholarship programs. He also holds an Extensive Certificate Course of American History from United States Information Services. Prior to re-joining USEFP in 2010, he was working as Director Participant Training in Pre-Service Teacher Education Program in Pakistan (Pre-STEP) – A USAID funded program. There, he was responsible for setting up a new participant training unit from the scratch and designing the application, making and implementing the poli-cies and regulations of the recruitment process. He was also responsible for devel-opment and implementation of participant training program activities for Pre-STEP Pakistan and assisting the Deputy/Chief of party to ensure that activities are imple-mented according to the program objectives. He has also served USEFP for about five years in the past, initially as Assistant Program Officer and then as Program Officer. Well-traveled around the globe, he has also worked in corporate sector in the areas of Human Resource Development. Since 2010 when he became the Program Manager of the World’s largest Fulbright Program the number of grantees has also significantly increased to more than double for other USEFP administered programs.

Sanchita Saxena, Executive Director, Institute for South Asia


Dr. Sanchita Saxena is an administrator, author, researcher, consultant, and lecturer with a focus on international development and policy making. Dr. Saxena received her Ph.D. in Political Science (focus on Comparative Political Economy) from UCLA in 2002. Currently, she serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies (ISAS) at UC Berkeley where she is responsible for spearheading new research initiatives, managing multi-year grants (from the Department of Education, Department of State, and Obama-Singh Knowledge Initiative), developing program-matic activities, securing funding opportunities through grants, individual, and cor-porate donors, establishing internal and external partnerships, administering fellow-ships, disseminating research through articles and reports, overseeing the Institute’s long term strategy, and providing the administrative leadership for the day-to-day operations of the Institute. Dr. Saxena also serves as the Director of the newly estab-lished Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies where she is spearheading col-laborations for faculty and students between UC Berkeley and universities, private companies, NGOs, and research organizations in Bangladesh.

Sarah McCormickSenior Program Officer, Pakistan Foreign Fulbright Program, Institute of International

Education

Sarah McCormick joined the Institute of International Education (IIE) in December 2005 and has worked on various exchange programs and currently works on the Foreign Fulbright Pakistan Program. Sarah has a Bachelor’s degree in History and Political Science from the University of Colorado at Denver (UCD) and is pursuing a Master’s of Political Science with an Emphasis on Public Policy and Leadership at UCD.

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Sridevi PrasadProgram & Publications Assistant, Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley

Sridevi Prasad graduated from UC Berkeley in 2015 with a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology and a double minor in South Asian Studies and Global Poverty and Practice. Sridevi is interested in politics in South Asia and the diaspora community as well as

refugee health issues.

Sudha ShettyAssistant Dean, School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley; Director, Hague DV Project

Sudha Shetty is the Assistant Dean for International Partnerships and Alliances at the Goldman School of Public at UC Berkeley. She is responsible for developing and implementing Global Leadership Programs in partnership with Foreign Governments. Her research area is focused on International Child Abduction and the intersection

of Violence Against Women and is a PI on the grant from the Department of Justice. She has also served as the Director of the International Fellowship Program and a graduate faculty at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs where she managed Fulbright’s, Muskie, Bolashak and Govt. of India Fellowships; developed and implemented trainings for these emerging international leaders in the areas of strategic planning, policy development, leadership devel-opment, media and communications created partnership with Hennepin County and engaged the directors and department heads as mentors for the Fellows. She speaks and writes extensively on domestic violence issues facing immigrant women and women of color. She has been a consultant to the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney, L.L.P. on diversity issues and in her former role as Director of the Seattle University Law School’s Access to Justice Institute she developed a variety of legal access projects focused on battered women. She was honored by the Washington Women Lawyers Foundation for her work with underserved communities. She has been the recipient of several awards –King County Washington Women Lawyers – Special Contributions to the Judiciary Award; NALP (National Association of Law School Placements – Award of Distinction in Pro Bono and Public Service; Asian Bar Asso-ciation of Washington - Community Service Award; PSLawNet - the Pro Bono Publi-co Award; AALS (American Association of Law Schools) - Father Drinan Award for forwarding the ethic of pro bono and public service in law schools through personal service, program design and management. She was a founding member and chair of Chaya, a grass-roots South Asian domestic violence prevention program in Seattle. She is an Alumni of the Asian Pacific Women’s Leadership Institute.

Umar AkramCo-Founder, Ammitips Class of 2017, College of Letters & Science, UC Berkeley

Umar Akram is an undergraduate student in his last year at UC Berkeley with a triple major in Economics, Political Science and Legal Studies. He is President of the Cal Pakistani Student’s Association and serves on the boards of numerous other clubs on campus. Umar is founder of an award-winning startup, Ammitips, that aims to limit infant mortality by providing timed messages/pre-recorded phone calls with medical, nutritional, and hygienic advice to expecting women according to there pregnancy cycle. By the end of this year, Ammitips will launch in 36 countries including Pakistan with our service in 50 languages. Ammitips works with a net-work of sponsors and partners such as the WHO, the Mobile Alliance For Maternal Action(MAMA). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary International, USAID, the Clinton Global Initiative, Johnson & Johnson, and Microsoft. Umar is also involved in a number of other projects in their developmental phases related to transparen-cy/e-government, making child adoption more accessible in Pakistan, and promot-ing organ donations.

Umair KhanChairman, Folio3, CEO, Secretbuilders

Umair Khan is a serial entrepreneur, who most recently co-founded SecretBuild-ers, a virtual world for 5 to 14 year olds. Prior to founding SecretBuilders, Mr. Khan co-founded Clickmarks Inc., a Silicon Valley-based enterprise software company. Mr. Khan is also founder and chairman of Verisium, a Silicon Valley-based software test-ing tools company founded in 2004. Mr. Khan is also founder and director of Folio3, a Pakistan-based services company that focuses on providing offshore operations incubation to venture-backed startups. Prior to this, Mr. Khan was founder and chair-man of Wordwalla Inc., a venture-backed company providing multilingual software

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solutions. Wordwalla was acquired in 2001 by Morisawa Corporation, a public company in Japan. Mr. Khan is also co-founder of Chowk, a niche portal focusing on South Asia. Mr. Khan started his career as part of the Itanium microprocessor group at Intel Corporation. Mr. Khan has over 20 industry patents applied for or pending in computer design and architecture, including four from his work at Intel and one from his graduate research at MIT. As a widely renowned leader in advanced Inter-net technology and a successful entrepreneur, he has lectured at the country’s top business schools, including MIT and Harvard, and has been profiled in publications such as USA Today, New York Times, and The Entrepreneur. Mr. Khan received a BS in Mathematics (1992) and an MS in Computer Engineering (1995) from MIT, where, in 1991, he was elected Institutional Nominee by the Department of Mathematics, as one of six distinguished scholars in Mathematics.

Wasif RizviPresident, Habib University

As CEO of Habib University Foundation, Mr. Wasif Rizvi is leading the conceptual-ization, design, and management of Habib University. Under his leadership, Habib University has initiated several youth development projects from the Foundation’s platform. Before joining the Habib University Foundation, Rizvi served as gener-al manager at Aga Khan Education Services Pakistan, where he was in charge of conceptualizing, designing and implementing educational development programs in various schools. He also helped found the Institute for Development Studies and

Practices in Quetta, and Shikshantar, an institute set up in India to rethink the foun-dations of education and development in South Asia. Mr. Rizvi holds a master’s de-gree in International Education from Harvard University. His special interests include religion and indigenous philosophies, and their influence in shaping social, political and economic processes in Middle Eastern and Indian cultures.

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LAST NAME FIRST NAME U.S HOST INSTITUTION FIELD OF STUDYAbbas Muzaffar South Dakota State University PharmacologyAbbas Kausar Purdue University EngineeringAbbasi Maria Northeastern University BiologyAftab Izza The New School Economics

Agha Scherzade Tulane University Accounting/FinanceAhmed Aftab Georgia Inst of Technology EngineeringAjani Amber American University Environmental Sciences

Ali Usman Georgia Inst of Technology EngineeringAli Muhammad University of Central Florida Computer Science

Ali Syed Hashim Mahmood George Washington University Accounting/FinanceAnjum Khadija Cornell University Urban PlanningArshad Muhammad Waqas SUNY at Albany Public AdministrationAsad Suffyan George Washington University Business

Ashraf Qurat Ul Ayn University of Arkansas, Fayetteville BiologyAslam Kiran Purdue University Chemistry

Ayub Aamir Georgia Inst of Technology EngineeringAziz Haseeb

Azmat Neelam Ohio State University Public AdministrationBajwa Abdullah Umair Texas A&M, Station College EngineeringBajwa Kinza University of Pennsylvania Public PolicyBasharat Amna University of Georgia Computer Science

Bashir Muhammad Omer University of Oklahoma EngineeringBashir Muhammad Hassan Texas A&M, Station College EngineeringBashir Ibrahim Louisiana State University Computer Science

Bashir Sumbal Temple University Business

Chandio Bibrak Qamar Indiana University, Bloomington Computer Science

Chaudhry Muhammad Imran Ohio State University Economics

Dilshad Komal Syracuse University Communications

Fahad Muhammad Michigan Technological University EngineeringFarhung Anuje Savannah College of Art & Design FashionGill Sarah Ishfaq University at Buffalo, SUNY Literature

Haroon B. F. Syed Kansas State University AgricultureHassan Mir North Carolina State University EngineeringHassan Daniyal Georgia Inst of Technology EngineeringHussain Syed Baqir Oregon State University Engineering

P A R T I C I P A N T S

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Hussain Sarah Columbia University Area Studies

Hyder Osman California Institute of the Arts Arts

Idrees Hassaan Arizona State University EngineeringImtiaz Shafia University of Chicago Public AdministrationJaffri Abbis PSU--University Park Campus Medical SciencesJajja Saad Ayub University of Colorado, Boulder EngineeringJamil Maryam Iowa State University GeneticsJavaid Abdul Qadir Georgia Inst of Technology EngineeringJaved Muhammad Affan Columbia University Public AdministrationJaved Ali University of Vermont Computer Science

Karim Muhammad University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Economics

Khalid Zain Emerson College Communications

Khalid Arooj Duke University Public PolicyKhalid Rehan Georgia Inst of Technology EngineeringKhalil Tariq Mahmood Washington State University, Pullman EngineeringKhalique Azhar Georgia State University Accounting/FinanceKhan Muhammad Abubakr SUNY, Binghamton PhilosophyKhan Muhammad Azeem Washington State University, Pullman EngineeringKhan Sherjeel Georgia Inst of Technology EngineeringKhan Zulqarnain Qayyum Northeastern University EngineeringKhan Sama George Washington University International Relations

Khan Ayesha Rasheed Georgia Inst of Technology EngineeringKhan Saad Ilahi North Carolina State University EngineeringKhattak Maimana American University Law

Khawaja Muhammad Naeem University of Massachusetts, Amherst Education

Kirmani Maham Boston College Social Work

Kulsoom Beenish West Michigan University Political ScienceLatif Shaffaf Washington University in St. Louis Law

Liaqat Sundas American University International Relations

Liaqat Mohammad Junaid North Carolina State University Accounting/FinanceMaalik Abdul Ohio State University EngineeringMahmood Amna Columbia University Public AdministrationMahmood Sehrish New York University Education

Mahmood Syed Raza University of Arkansas, Fayetteville BiologyManzoor Momina Johns Hopkins University Business

Masih Suzanna Sardar Grad School of Journalism, CUNY Journalism

Mazaree Saquiba

Mehdi Syeda Areej Georgetown University Communications

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Mehdi Miriam American University International Relations

Mehmood Muhammad Zia Harvard University Public PolicyMian Seemal Tariq New York University Business

Min Allah Samar University of Michigan-Ann Arbor EngineeringMinallah Shehrbano University of Chicago SociologyMir Mohammed Umer Tulane University Public HealthMohazzam Sardar University of Delaware Public PolicyMukhtar Aisha Harvard University Public AdministrationMunawar Muhammad Dawood Louisiana State University EngineeringNaseem Samiha Louisiana State University GeologyNasir Muhammad Clark University Economics

Nasir Zohra Vanderbilt University Education

Nasrullah Madiha Thunderbird School of Management Business

Parvez Madiha Rochester Inst of Technology Business

Pirzadeh Saba Purdue University Literature

Qadir Fatima Michigan State University Business

Qazi Suleman Arizona State University EngineeringQureshi Ramla Karim University at Buffalo, SUNY EngineeringQureshi Muhammad Umer Georgia Inst of Technology EngineeringQureshi Shamsul Arfin Texas A&M EngineeringRaja Muhammad Ammad Cornell University Business

Rashid Hashim Harvard University Public AdministrationRaza Syed Syracuse University Public AdministrationRehman Sarmad Duke University EngineeringRiaz Awais Georgia Inst of Technology EngineeringRizvi Syeda Marzia Zahra Georgia Inst of Technology BiologySadaf Sonia Cornell University Public AdministrationSadiq Muhammad Usman Purdue University EngineeringSaghir Saarim Carnegie Mellon University Public PolicySajjad Hadia New York University EngineeringSalim Zainab George Mason University Education

Shah Syed Safeeullah Emory University Business

Shah Aaqib Waqa North Carolina State University MathematicsShah Etizaz Hassan Georgia Inst of Technology EngineeringShahid Ayesha

Shaikh Tabish University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Materials ScienceShoaib Tooba Rochester Inst of Technology Computer Science

Shoaib Maria Georgia Inst of Technology Engineering

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Sikandar Muhammad Usama Bin Rochester Inst of Technology Business

Sikandari Waqas University of Southern California EnergySohail Farrukh University of South Carolina, Columbia Computer Science

Syed Shams Ul Haq University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Materials ScienceTariq Amara University of Central Florida Computer Science

Tariq Harres Bin Georgia Inst of Technology EngineeringTawab Annum Sadiq Carnegie Mellon University Public PolicyToru Maria Qasim Emerson College Communications

Ul Mulk Maria Columbia University Public AdministrationVadria Mariam Rafique Columbia University Public AdministrationWaheed Waqas Georgia Inst of Technology EngineeringYawar Saima Georgia State University Business

Yousaf Farhan Navid University of Connecticut SociologyZaidi Syed M. Zohair Princeton University International Relations

Zaidy Syed North Carolina State University EngineeringZaman Komal Boston University Business

Zamir Syeda Maira Cornell University Public AdministrationZubair Muhammad North Carolina State University Engineering

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E N J O Y Y O U R A F T E R N O O N I N S A N F R A N C I S C OFisherman’s Wharf Explore beautiful views of the Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Bay Bridge from Fisherman’s Wharf. Pier 39 is the most famous. Explore the concourse and cool

down with some ice

cream!

Ghirardelli Square Indulge in a sundae or grab some chocolate samples

at the delicious

Ghirardelli factory.

ExploratoriumThe Exploratorium is an awesome

hands-on, interactive

laboratory/museum

that allows visitors

to explore the world through science, art, and human perception.

Student tickets

$24.95.

Chinatown The oldest in

North America. Walk through one of the oldest, most historic

neighborhoods of San Francisco. Have fun shopping for gifts and gadgets or try some dim sum at a local

restaurant.

Union Square The city’s top spot

for shopping, dining & hotels. Shop until you drop!

Easily accessible

by cable car from

Fisherman’s Wharf or Ghirardelli Square. Just

disembark at

Powell and Market Street.

Coit Tower Beautiful views of

San Francisco and the Bay Area. $8 entrance fee.

SF Cable Car Take a ride on of

San Francisco’s historic Cable Cars.

You can get on the Powell-Hyde line from near

Ghirardelli Square or the Powell-Mason line from around Fisherman’s Wharf. (both end at

Powell and Market). $5 each way. See the link for more

info: http://www.

sfcablecar.com/

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E M E R G E N C Y I N F O R M A T I O N

If you require immediate EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSISTANCE and cannot locate a staff member, please either:

DIAL 911 on the telephone for an emergency operator who will send medical assistance should you need it.

GO to the nearest hospital

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center450 30th St, Oakland, CA 94609

Emergency Department: 510-204-1303General Patient Information: 510-655-4000

CALL Institute for South Asia Staff members

• Puneeta Kala at 650-862-0400 • Sridevi Prasad at 414-218-8756

In case of any other emergency, please follow instructions provided by event venues or any law enforcement and emergency personnel.

Please take note of the emergency exit routes posted in your hotel room.

In case of an emergency that does not require exiting the building, please relocate to the Oakland Marriott Lobby.

In case of emergency that requires leaving the building, please meet at the 12th Street BART station.

If you are unable to locate the group, please call

• Puneeta Kala at 650-862-0400 or • Sridevi Prasad at 414-218-8756.

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Institute for South Asia Studies

10 Stephens Hall

University of California at Berkeley

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