Author Bios

Ali Fatemi and Karim Pakravan are members of the board of  the National Iranian American Council. Check out NIAC's blog at www.niacINsight.com.

Malcolm Fraser is a former prime minister of Australia. More of Mr. Fraser's contribution to Project Syndicate can be found here.

Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell is a North Carolina-based freelance journalist and graduate student studying legal and reproductive history.

Gerald Friedman is a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Desmond Tutu is Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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Bartlett Naylor is Public Citizen’s financial policy analyst.