Al-Husein N. Madhany manages strategic business, policy, and media communications partnerships that facilitate cutting-edge domestic and international diplomatic action. He has consulted domestically and internationally with the private and public sectors on philanthropy, civic engagement and community development. al-Husein has taught at Georgetown University and worked as the Executive Director and Executive Editor of Islamica Magazine. He holds a BA from Wake Forest and graduate degrees from Harvard, Georgetown and the University of Chicago.  al-Husein is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, a Senior Fellow at the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations  and serves on the advisory board for the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University.