MEFF Committee

The Middle East Forum of Falmouth is a nonprofit organization overseen and run by a volunteer Committee.

James S. Altschul

• President, Aviation Advisory Service, Inc. (airplane hangar development)

• Member of the New York bar

• Former financial journalist who has written and lectured extensively on business, finance, and international relations

Andrew W. Davis

• Retired market research and consulting professional

• Founded and directed Wainhouse Research market analyst firm focused on enterprise communications and video conferencing markets

• Work history includes manufacturing engineering, project management, strength-of-materials research

Gary Jacobson, MD

MEFF President Emeritus

• Senior Supervising Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

• Former co-Chair, Muslim-Jewish Dialogue group of the American Jewish Committee (New England)

• Former Chair of the Fellowship Committee, Middle East Institute for Social and Economic Policy, John F. Kennedy School
  of Government

Jane McHan, PhD

• Social Political Psychologist

• Lived, worked, taught (AUB, KSU College of Medicine), and travelled extensively in the Middle East for 30+ years

• Conducted research in the Middle East, and author, “Social Psychological Aspects of War and Violent Conflict”

Kathryn Plazak

MEFF Treasurer and Clerk

• President, Plazak Associates

• Former Vice President,
  Government & Community Relations,
  New England Life

Marc Shulman, PhD

MEFF President

• Professor Emeritus, Immunology Department, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

• Member, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole MA

Fletcher Street

• Experimental Psychologist

• Member, Board of Directors, Chatham Chorale; and Development Committee, Falmouth Chorale

Allen Taylor, PhD

• Director of the Laboratories for Nutrition and Vision Research, Tufts University

• Co-founder and Director, Science Training Encouraging Peace – Graduate Training Program (STEP-GTP), pairing Israeli and Palestinian students conducting graduate-level research at Israeli universities

Michael J. Zigmond, PhD

• Professor Emeritus, Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh

• Originator of a training program on professional skills that has included presentations to a large number of countries in the Middle East.