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International Academic Advisory Council.

The scholars and institutional leaders who answer for the academic integrity of Évian III — its curriculum, its sources, and its standards.

Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett

Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett

President, The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice

Former Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and Co-Chair of the International Religious Freedom Summit. She teaches human rights and U.S. foreign policy at Tufts University. Her father, Congressman Tom Lantos, remains the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the United States Congress.

lantosfoundation.org
Dr. Jeffrey Kress

Dr. Jeffrey Kress

Provost & Heller Professor of Jewish Education, Jewish Theological Seminary

Provost of JTS and a National Jewish Book Award–winning scholar of Jewish education, on the JTS faculty since 2000. He writes and teaches on experiential learning and character education — the two questions at the center of how Évian III is built.

jtsa.edu
Dr. Leon Saltiel

Dr. Leon Saltiel

Director of Diplomacy, World Jewish Congress · Representative to the UN in Geneva & UNESCO

WJC Coordinator on Countering Antisemitism and a Holocaust historian. His study of wartime Thessaloniki won the 2021 Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research.

worldjewishcongress.org
Thomas White

Thomas White

Distinguished Board Member, Association of Holocaust Organizations

Longtime Coordinator of Educational Outreach at the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College. He has trained hundreds of Holocaust educators across the United States and abroad.

ahoinfo.org
Rabbi Ancel Salamon

Rabbi Ancel Salamon

Chief Rabbi of the Dominican Republic

Spiritual leader of the Dominican Jewish community, whose roots trace directly to the Sosúa settlement — the living legacy of the one nation that said yes at Évian in 1938.

dominicanrabbi.org
Dr. Diane F. Afoumado

Dr. Diane F. Afoumado

Historian and author of Indésirables 1938

Her Indésirables 1938 (Calmann-Lévy / Mémorial de la Shoah, 2018) is the book-length history of the conference Évian III revisits. Formerly a historian in the archival division of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, she has also written on the refugees of the St. Louis.

An Open Seat

A council still growing.

These founding members have committed to guiding the academic integrity of Évian III. Additional scholars and institutional leaders are being invited now.

Your institution can be among them.