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WHO WE ARE NOTE: This page includes, below, links to the “support letters” (namely, letters of endorsement or recognition, expressing interest in participation or general support) written about the various aspects of the IISCCIW initiative—Please also see the “Brainstorming in Action” as well as the “Organization” and “Funding” pages of this website for more context. * Moji Agha (Mojtaba Aghamohammadi): The Founder/Director of the initiative - Founder/Director, Project on Culture and Conflict, University of Arizona--Please see the memo by Prof. Charles Tatum, Dean, College of Humanities, University of Arizona: HERE. - Founder/President, Universal Coalition for Interfaith and Intercultural Knowledge and Action (UCIIKA) - To see a bio for Moji Agha (in need of updating) please click: HERE . The IISCCIW's Principal Advisors (most actively involved, overall) * William Beeman, Professor/Chair, Anthropology Department, University of Minnesota. NOTE: Upon finalizing the required administrative processes, we expect (through the interest and leadership of Prof. Beeman and also of Prof. Abdi Samatar, Chair of the Department of Geography) that the University of Minnesota would become the IISCCIW's initial university “base” in the U.S.--Please see Prof. Beeman's letter: HERE. * Morteza Rahmatian, Professor/Vice-Chair (former Chair), Department of Economics, California State University, Fullerton (Also an Initial Advisor to IWCCF, the Islamic World Climate Change Fund)--Please see Prof. Rahmatian's letter: HERE. * Michael Veiluva, Attorney at Law (environmental law) Walnut Creek, California (U.S.). NOTE: Upon finalizing the required administrative processes, we expect that the initiative's initial university “base” in the Islamic world (STARTING from Iran) would be formally created, resulting from a collaboration between the University of Tehran and the Sharif University of Technology (Tehran), guided by the following academic leaders: * Mohammad Mousavi (Prof., Department of North American Studies) Director General, Office of International Relations, University of Tehran--Please see Prof. Mousavi's letter: HERE. - To see Prof. Mousavi's letter in Persian, please see: HERE. * Gholam-Reza Nabi Bidhendi (G.R. Nabi) Professor/Dean, Graduate School of the Environment, University of Tehran--Please see Dean Nabi's letter: HERE. * Gholam reza Jamshidiha, Professor/Dean, College of Social Sciences, University of Tehran--Please see Dean Jamshidiha's letter: HERE. * Massoud Tajrishy, Professor/Director, Environment and Water Research Center, Sharif University of Technology--Please see Prof. Tajrishy's letter: HERE. The Iran Portion of the Initiative Pending the finalization of appropriate academic cooperation agreements, in general (as of early June 2008), with regard to the Iran portion of the IISCCIW initiative, in its initial phase, colleagues at the Sharif University of Technology's Environment and Water Research Center (and in other appropriate departments or programs there, as well as at the University of Tehran, and as appropriate, at other relevant universities; also with the possible technical assistance of Iran’s Meteorological Organization) would engage in the physical/atmospheric sciences component of the initiative. With the same understanding as above, the environmental, natural resources, and agricultural sciences component of the IISCCIW is expected to be engaged through the Graduate School of the Environment at the University of Tehran, in cooperation, as appropriate, with related departments or programs there and elsewhere. Similarly, the social, theological, behavioral, and health sciences component of the initiative (as well as its economic, legal, and management sciences component) would be covered by Tehran University at the College of Social Sciences, with the cooperation of other respective colleges and departments--also including the European and North American Studies Program--in collaboration (as the process gradually evolves) with other departments or programs at other universities and institutions in Iran, as appropriate, possible, and feasible. Other Principal Advisors * Julian Kunnie, Professor/Director, Africana Studies Program, University of Arizona--Please see Prof. Kunnie's letter: HERE. - Also, please see another letter about the initiative by Prof. Kunnie: HERE. * Patricia Mokhtarian, Professor/Associate Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California (UC, Davis)--Please see Prof. Mokhtarian's letter: HERE. Academic/scientific leaders with active (or pending) interest in and support for the IISCCIW, as its projects evolve (as of early June, 2008) * Deb Niemeier, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director, John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California (UC, Davis)--Please see Prof. Niemeier's letter: HERE. * Stephen Brush, Professor of Anthropology (ecological) Department of Human and Community Development, University of California (UC, Davis)--Please see Prof. Brush's letter: HERE. * Mark Lubell, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California (UC, Davis)--Please see Prof. Lubell's letter: HERE. * Cynthia Lin, Assistant Professor (environmental economics) Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California (UC, Davis)--Please see Prof. Lin's letter: HERE. * Richard Howitt, Professor/Chair, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California (UC, Davis). * Suad Joseph, Professor of Anthropology/Director, Middle East/South Asia Studies, University of California (UC, Davis). * Charles Tatum, Professor/Dean, College of Humanities, University of Arizona (Tucson). * Malcolm Hughes, Regents' Professor (ecology, climate change), Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona. * Joseph Watkins, Member of Faculty, Mathematics Department, University of Arizona. * Bayo Ijagbemi, Member of Faculty, Africana Studies Program, College of Humanities, University of Arizona. * Teles Machibya, Member of Faculty, Africana Studies Program, College of Humanities, University of Arizona. 2- Iranian Institutions * Abdolreza Karbassi, Professor/Managing Specialist, Energy and the Environment Program, Graduate School of the Environment, University of Tehran. * Abolhassan Vafai, Professor, Editor-in-Chief of Scientica Iranica, and Director of the International Relations and Research Office, Sharif University of Technology (Tehran). * Ahmad Abrishamchi, Professor of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, Sharif University of Technology. * Ali Kermanshah, Professor, Graduate School of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Technology and Director of its Joint Research Center with Iran Meteorological Organization. * Javad Bodagh Jamali, Vice President for Research, Education, and Training, Iran Meteorological Organization (Tehran). Initial Advisors to the funding “branch” of the IISCCIW: The Islamic World Climate Change Fund (IWCCF) * Massy (ma'soomeh) Homayouni, and Marjan Homayouni, Co-Founders, Phoenix Capital Investments (New York, U.S.)--Please see Ms. Massy Homayouni's letter: HERE. * Mohamad Mohana, Founder/President, Western Management Company--Please see Mr. Mohana's letter: HERE * Morteza Rahmatian (Please see above). * Bruce Bridegroom (Please see above). * Michael Veiluva (Please see above)
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