Huda Jawad is the UK Programme Director for Forward Thinking. Prior to this, she was Civility Programme Administrator at the Foreign Policy Centre. Ms. Jawad has also worked as Assistant to the Executive Director of the International Forum for Islamic Dialogue. She has a Masters degree in International Studies and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. Ms. Jawad is a contributor to OpenDemocracy.org, for which she has co-authored Is Britishness Under Threat? and authored Iraq, Women and Violence: the Downward Spiral.