Judy Barsalou
Judy Barsalou is a political scientist whose career has focused largely on building bridges between social scientists, human rights activists, conflict management practitioners, and policymakers. She has served as President of the El-Hibri Foundation, based in Washington, DC. She twice worked for the Ford Foundation, first in the 1980s, as a Program Officer in the Foundation’s New York and Cairo offices, and then as the Regional Representative for the Middle East and North Africa based in Cairo, starting in 2008. Judy also served as Vice President of the Grant and Fellowship Program at the United States Institute of Peace. Prior to that, she was the Executive Director of the Middle East Research and Information Project, which publishes Middle East Report and the Director of Academic Programs at the Institute of Governmental Affairs, the University of California, Davis. Judy holds a B.A. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.