The Azm Global Leaders Fellowship is guided by a distinguished faculty of scholars, practitioners, and global leaders. Each brings decades of experience in their field and a shared commitment to developing the next generation of values-driven leaders.
Fellowship Founder
Muna AbuSulayman
Founder & CEO, Azm Global Leaders Fellowship. A global development leader with 30+ years of experience advising international institutions on leadership and social impact. Muna is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, Yale World Fellow, and former Founding CEO of Alwaleed Philanthropies, where she led initiatives across 65+ countries. She serves as an advisor to UN Women and UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, and sits on advisory boards for Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and Gucci Chime for Change. She hosted MENA’s leading talk show, Kalam Nawaem, for over a decade.
Faculty
Dr. Susan Douglass
Islamic Civilization Committee Leader. Education Outreach Coordinator at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. Professor at Bayan Islamic Graduate School and Legacy International Online High School. Susan brings decades of expertise in Islamic history and education, shaping how the curriculum connects historical knowledge to contemporary leadership.
Dr. Iyad Uakoub
Leadership Skills Committee Leader. A Stanford and Harvard-trained behavioral scientist and organizational psychologist based in Silicon Valley and Riyadh. Iyad advises governments and accelerators on leadership development, employability, and applied behavioral science. He brings rigorous research and practical frameworks to the fellowship’s leadership curriculum.
Dr. Samar Ali
Award-winning executive, author, and professor. Board member of WEF’s Global Future Council on Leadership. Vice Chair of Bethany Beyond the Jordan US Foundation. Founder & CEO of Millions of Conversations. Professor of Law & Political Science at Vanderbilt. TED and TEDx Speaker. Co-Founder of Lodestone Advisory Group (4-time recipient of Forbes’ Top 50 Management Consulting Firms List). Chair of the Governance Committee for Winrock International and Board Member. Young Global Leader with the World Economic Forum. White House Fellow and White House Fellow Impact Award recipient. Work featured globally in AP News, TIME, Washington Post, CBC News, NY Times, NPR, USA Today, PBS, CNN, NBC, Oprah, BBC News, France 24, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and more.