General David H. Petraeus (US Army, Ret.) is a Partner with the global investment firm KKR and Chairman of the KKR Global Institute, which he established in 2013. Prior to joining KKR, General Petraeus served over 37 years in the U.S. military, culminating in six consecutive commands, five of which were in combat, including command of the 101st Airborne Division during the fight to Baghdad and the first year in Iraq; of the Multinational Security Transition Command in Iraq; of coalition forces in Iraq during the Surge; of the U.S. Central Command; and of coalition forces in Afghanistan. Following retirement from the military, he served as Director of the CIA. General Petraeus graduated with distinction from the U.S. Military Academy and earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. He has earned numerous honors and awards, and has been decorated by 13 foreign countries.

Dr. Fareed Yasseen has served as Iraq's ambassador to the United States since 2016, and has previously served as head of Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department of Policy Planning; diplomatic advisor to Deputy President Adil Abd al-Mahdi; and Ambassador to France. Initially trained as a physicist, Dr. Yasseen carried out academic research in the field before engaging in political activism and human rights advocacy. He has worked and consulted for various start-ups, think tanks, and UN agencies, including the Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. In 2016, Dr. Yasseen was awarded the Robert and JoAnn Bendetsen Public Diplomacy Award at Tufts University and made Commander of France's Order of the Legion of Honor.

Bénédicte de Montlaur is President and Chief Executive Officer of World Monuments Fund (WMF), the world’s foremost private organization dedicated to saving extraordinary places while empowering the communities around them. She is responsible for defining WMF’s strategic vision, currently implementing that vision in more than 30 countries around the world and leading a team that spans the globe. Her background mixes culture and the arts, politics, international diplomacy and human rights. Prior to joining WMF, Montlaur spent two decades working across three continents as a senior diplomat at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

With a presentation about heritage preservation in Iraq by: 

Dr. Jala Makhzoumi is an architect and adjunct professor of Landscape Architecture at the American University of Beirut, with expertise in post-conflict recovery, heritage conservation and sustainable development. She served as an ecological landscape consultant for projects that include the Baghdad Comprehensive City Development 2030, the Damascus Master Plan 2030, and the Saida Urban Sustainable Development Strategy. She is president of the Lebanese Landscape Association; co-founder of the Cambridge Center for Landscape and People; and partner at UNIT44 design and planning. Dr. Makhzoumi studied architecture in Baghdad before completing her Masters in Environmental Design at Yale University and earning her Ph.D. in landscape architecture at Sheffield University. She is a recipient of the 2019 European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding contribution to landscape architecture education and practice.

Lorna and Edwin Goodman

Lisa and Bernard Selz

Hélène Marie and Jake Shafran

Davide & Ronnie, The StefanacciWest Foundation

Brook Berlind

Wendy and Robert Brandow

Susan and François de Menil

Linn and Robert Feidelson

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kimmelman

Monika McLennan

Marchesa Katrin Theodoli

 

Prince Amyn Aga Khan

Mark Fletcher and Tobias Meyer

David and Sylvia Goodman

Anas Halabi

Fernanda M. Kellogg and Kirk Henckels

Nora and Jack Kerr

Deborah Lehr/Antiquities Coalition

Annie Liang-Zhou

Jorge Ordonez

Dr. Marilyn Perry

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin M. Rosen

Griffin Smilow

Melissa Stewart

Anthony V. Thompson

Charles Wong