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Rafi Melnick

Rafi Melnick is the Provost of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya based in Israel. Melnick joined The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in 1998 and as of 2009 he was the Dean of the Lauder School of Government. Prior to that he was professor of economics at the Arison Business School, in the past he held teaching positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and visiting positions at Boston University and the University of California.
Melnick served as a senior economist at the research department of the Bank of Israel; during 1991-1998 he was deputy director of research. He was also a member of the team of economists at the Bank of Israel, that designed the strategy for the absorption of the Soviet immigration in the nineties and prepared the absorption plan entitled “One Million Immigrants - An Absorption Program”.
His research interests are listed as: 
:business cycle analysis, the economic impact of terrorism and monetary policy in small open economies. An economic program for fiscal consolidation in Israel and the development of a national index for the civilian national strength of state of Israel", both of these research projects were discussed in the Herzliya conference in 2002 and 2003.
Melnick developed the State of the economy index for the Israeli economy; the index is published to the public, by IDC, on a monthly basis. His professional activities include economic consultant to Migdal, member of the board of directors of Psagot Ofek securities and investment Ltd. and research associate of the Center for social policy studies research in IsraelProf. Rafi Melnick, International Institute for Counter Terrorism, Interdisciplinary Centre Herzliya, Accessed 21-August-2009.
Melnick was a speaker in 2004 at the Milken InstituteSpeaker Biography, Rafi Melnick, The Milken Institute, Accessed 21-August-2009.
==Affiliations==
Milken Institute | Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya | International Institute for Counter Terrorism | Lauder School of Government | Arison Business School | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Boston University | University of California | Bank of Israel | Migdal | Psagot Ofek securities and investment Ltd | Center for social policy studies research
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Rafid Ahmed Alwan

Rafid Ahmed Alwan, known by the Central Intelligence Agency codename "Curveball", is an Iraqi citizen who defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program.BBC Online Iraq war source's name revealed, BBC News 2007-11-02 Alwan's allegations were subsequently shown to be false by the Iraq Survey Group's final report published in 2004.The Record on CURVEBALL: Declassified Documents and Key Participants Show the Importance of Phony Intelligence in the Origins of the Iraq War, National Security Archive, The George Washington University, 2007-11-07, accessed 27 April 2009Bob Drogin Determining the Reliability of a Key CIA Source Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, Spring, 2008, accessed 27 April 2009
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Ragnar Löfstedt

Professor and director of the King’s Centre for Risk Management at King's College London where he teaches and conducts research on risk communication and management. Also an instructor at Harvard School of Public Health. 
==Study programmes==
:This program is led by Dr Ragnar Löfstedt, who 'has assembled a renowned team of faculty from Carnegie Mellon University, George Washington University's Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Newgate Public Relations.
==Affiliations==
*Working with lobbyists and planning specialists Newgate Communications and PPS Group on academic analysis of the factors needed to win acceptance for major projects.
==Notes==
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Raheel Raza

|300px|thumb|right|Raheel Raza, Source: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_hlh1rHYXQ/ Youtube screengrab] 
Raza is a member of the advisory board of the Clarion Project. 
==Biography==
:Raheel Raza is president of The Council for Muslims Facing Tomorrow, author of the book Their Jihad – Not My Jihad, award winning journalist, public speaker, activist for human rights, featured in the award-winning documentary Honor Diaries. She is recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal for service to Canada. Raheel bridges the gap between East and West, promoting cultural and religious diversity for which she has appeared in print and on TV and radio numerous times. A fervent advocate for gender equality, Raheel is the first Muslim woman in Canada to lead mixed gender prayers. In her pursuit for human rights, she speaks regularly at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
 The Clarion Project's Advisory Board 
==Affiliations==
*Gatestone Institute
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Raimond Gaita

::Raimond Gaita was educated in Victoria, Australia where he received a BA (Hons) and an MA from the University of Melbourne. Under the supervision of R.F. Holland, he wrote a Ph.D. at the University of Leeds. He is currently Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College London and Foundation Professor of Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. Each year he is in Australia from April until the beginning of the academic year at King's.Kings College London, Philosophy Staff - Raimond Gaita, accessed 17 April 2008.
==Affiliations==
*Euston Manifesto
==References==
Rainer Grell

|250px|thumb|right|Rainer Grell, Credit: stuttgarter-zeitung.de, factum/Granville
Rainer Grell formerly held a high office in the Ministry of Interior in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. He is now a prominent member of the German anti-Islam organisation Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa. Hope Not Hate, Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa, Counterjihad Map: Germany, accessed 2 February 2015
==Values test for immigrants==
He is known for developing what the British organisation Hope Not Hate has called the 'notorious “Muslimtest”, an interview guideline for foreigners longing for the German citizenship.' The test, adopted in Baden-Württemberg in 2005, featured questions like 'Do you think women must obey their husbands, and if they don't, should husbands be allowed to beat them? Do you think homosexuals should be allowed to hold high-ranking government positions? Do you think the September 11th attacks were committed by terrorists or freedom fighters?'. A variation was also implemented in the state of Hesse. Grell reportedly claim it was 'developed in response to a 2004 survey by a German research institute that said almost a quarter of Muslim immigrants believe Islamic law trumps the German constitution.'Pressing German Values on Islamic Immigrants, NPR, 5 May 2006, accessed 2 February 2015
The questions originally applied only to applicants from one of the 57 member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) or other applicants ‘appearing to be Muslims’.Liav Orgad, ILLIBERAL LIBERALISM: CULTURAL RESTRICTIONS ON MIGRATION AND ACCESS TO CITIZENSHIP IN EUROPE, American Journal of Comparative Law, 58(1),2010, p.15.
==Affiliations==
*Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa
==Resources==
==Notes==
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Raj Bagri

Raj Kumar Bagri, Baron Bagri, was one of the UK's successful Asian businessman who renounced his House of Lords peerage in 2010 to protect his "non-dom" tax status and avoid paying resident taxes. He is a metals magnate and former Chairman of the London Metal Exchange. He was awarded the CBE in 1995. Raj Kumar Bagri is the father of Apurv Bagri, managing director of Metdist.
==Metals magnate==
===LME Chairman and potential windfall===
Bagri was Chairman of the London Metal Exchange until 2002, though he retains a 9.4% stake of LME through his Metdist Ltd and Metdist Trading Ltd holdings.Nicholas Larkin and Agnieszka Troszkiewicz, 'London Metal Exchange Takeover Bids Mean Most Is at Stake for Goldman, UBS', Bloomberg, 28 September 2011, accessed 24 November 2011 
The sale of the LME in 2012 is expected to land Bagri with a windfall earning of £90million.Anna Mikhailova and Maurice Chittenden, 'Non-dom Tory peer to net £100m in house sale', The Sunday Times, 20 November 2011, accessed 24 November 2011
===Mining assets===
Bagri hold multiple major metals assets, though they tend to keep a low public profile. These include:
Metdist | Minmetco
==A billionaire lord who refused to pay taxes==
Bagri renounced his House of Lords peerage in 2010 to escape paying resident taxes, having been a Conservative Peer from 1997 onwards. Bagri retains his title.Andy McSmith 'A peerage? I'd rather give it back and cut my tax bill', The Independent, 7 July 2010, accessed 24 November 2011
His former Regent's Park home, acquired for £5.9m in 1994 and redesigned by Quinlan Terry, fetched £120m on sale in November 2011 — making it the most expensive single property ever sold in the UK.Ashis Ray, 'NRI tycoon sells London home for whopping £120m', The Times of India, 21 November 2011, accessed 24 November 2011
==Affiliations==
*Princes Trust - Advisory Committee member
*Bagri Foundation - Chairman
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Rajeev Misra

Rajeev Misra is the head of strategic finance at Japanese telecommunications company Softbank group. 
He is a UK Conservative Party donor and a former boss of the ex-banker and Conservative government minister Sajid Javid.
==Career==
Misra has previously been senior managing director and head of European investments at Fortress Investment Group, group managing director at UBS and held various leadership roles at Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch. Eros Rajeev Misra, accessed 5 May 2015. Whilst at Deutsche he was the boss of the Conservative Party MP Sajid Javid. Holly Watt The Tory Leader's Group donor club: 'A chance for like-minded people to talk' Guardian, 4 May 2015, accessed 5 May 2015.
In October 2014 it was announced he was joining Softbank. Reuters Softbank to hire Rajeev Misra from Fortress Investment Group - Bloomberg, 14 October 2014, accessed 5 May 2015.
==Education==
*MBA, Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*Masters degree in Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania
*Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
==Political donations==
Recorded by the Electoral Commission: Electoral Commission Search: Rajeev, accessed 5 May 2015.
Date
Name of donor
Amount
Donated to
Subsidiary (parties only)
10/04/2010
Rajeev Misra
£5,000.00	
Conservative Party
Bromsgrove
13/01/2014
Rajeev Misra
£50,000.00
Conservative Party
Central Party
==Affiliations==
*The Leader's Group
*Sajid Javid, UK business secretary of state appointed May 2015
==Notes==
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Rakesh Saxena

Indian businessman wanted in Thailand on charges of embezzling $88 million from the Bangkok Bank of Commerce.
==Sierra Leone - Arms to Africa Affair==
::The Canadian Globe and Mail reported on 1 August 1997, that it had obtained documents showing a conspiracy to use mercenaries to overthrow Sierra Leone's military rulers. Momodu Koroma, Minister of Presidential Affairs for the government-in-exile of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, Rakesh Saxena, head of Vancouver-based Tidewater Management Corp, and Tim Spicer, the head of Sandline International, a military consulting firm similar to Executive Outcomes. Saxena is an Indian citizen and former Thai bank official who is fighting extradition to Thailand in connection with financial problems with one of Thailand's largest banks. Saxena holds a bauxite concession in West Africa and is looking to expand his operations there. Sandline International's chairman, Tony Buckingham, is a major shareholder in Diamond Works Ltd, a Vancouver company which holds six diamond mining properties in Sierra Leone. The documents show Saxena paid Spicer $70,000 in consultancy fees plus expenses to prepare a realistic appraisal of the situation in Sierra Leone by the end of July. "Our offer of assistance to the Sierra Leonean government is undoubtedly motivated by our desire to establish and perhaps consolidate our position in that part of the world" Saxena wrote in a letter to Spicer. Letter to the Chairman from Lord Avebury, 4 November 1998, House of Commons - Foreign Affairs - Minutes of Evidence.
==Connections==
*Tim Spicer
==References==
Rakesh Sharma

Rakesh Sharma is the chief executive of Ultra Electronics.
==Career==
Sharma started his career as an electronic design engineer at Marconi in 1983. In 1989 he moved to Dowty as chief engineer of sonar and communications systems and was then appointed marketing director in 1993.
From 1997 to 1999 he worked in the US as Ultra's operations director, he then moved back to the UK as managing director of PMES and then of sonar and communications systems. In 2005 he was appointed managing director of tactical and sonar systems, before being appointed to run the group's information and power systems division in 2008. In 2010 he was appointed chief operating officer and to the board and in 2011 chief executive. Ultra Electronics Directors, accessed 7 April 2015.
==Support for the Conservatives==
On 1 April 2015 Sharma was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 7 April 2015.
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Ralf Burgstahler

Ralf Burgstahler joined the REACH Unit of DG Enterprise and Industry in September 2001. Before joining the unit he worked at the Product Safety Department at German chemical giant BASF, in 1998 he became BASF's EU Governmental Affairs Manager. In 2004 he then moved to the German Ministry for Economic Affairs where he was put in charge of REACH.Greenpeace, "Toxic Lobby: How the chemicals industry is trying to kill REACH," May 2006, accessed 05 March 2010.
==Resources==
*Greenpeace, "Toxic Lobby: How the chemicals industry is trying to kill REACH," May 2006, accessed 05 March 2010.
==Notes==
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Ralph A. Cossa

Ralph A. Cossa is president of the Pacific Forum CSIS in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is also senior editor of the Forum’s triannual electronic journal, Comparative Connections.Ralph A. Cossa, Center for Strategic and International Studies, accessed 1 May 2015.
Cossa served in the U.S. Air Force from 1966 to 1993, achieving the rank of colonel and last serving as special assistant to the commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command.Ralph A. Cossa, Center for Strategic and International Studies, accessed 1 May 2015.
==Affiliations==
*Worldwide Support for Development - Director
==Notes==
Cossa, Ralph A.
Ralph Findlay

Ralph Findlay is the chief executive at brewers Marstons.
==Career==
Findlay qualified as an accountant at PWC, worked as a financial controller at Geest plc (now Bakkavör Group Limited and treasury manager at brewers Bass plc. David Prosser The Business On... Ralph Findlay, Chief executive, Marston's Independent, 3 December 2010, accessed 2 April 2015 
He was appointed to the board of brewers and pub chain Marstons as finance director in 1996 and became chief executive in 2001. Marstons Management team, accessed 2 April 2015.
==Support for the Conservative Party==
===2010 election===
Findlay backed the Conservative pledge not to increase National Insurance if they won the 2010 General Election. Robert Winnett and Andrew Porter General Election 2010: 30 more business leaders back Tories on National Insurance Telegraph, 7 April 2010, accessed 8 April 2015.
===Letter to the Telegraph===
On 1 April 2015 Findlay was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 2 April 2015.
==Education==
*Geology, Edinburgh University
==Affiliations==
*British Beer and Pub Association, chairman
==Notes==
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Ralph Murray

Ralph Murray was a broadcaster, the head of the Information Research Department of the Foreign Office (1948-51), a diplomat and then, on retirement, became a BBC Governor (in 1967).
==Career==
*1941-1943 Underground Propaganda Committee Lee Richards Whispers of War – The British World War II rumour campaign, Psywar.org
*1948-51 Information Research Department
==Resources==
* Wikipedia Ralph Murray
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Ralph Palmer

Ralph Palmer (Lord Lucas) is an excepted hereditary in the House of Lords. Palmer became a Conservative Party member of the Lords in March 1992. Lord Lucas www.parliament.uk, accessed 9 December 2014 
Following the death of his mother in 1991, he succeeded her titles as the 12th Baron Lucas and 8th Lord Dingwall. 
==Interests==
*Member of Advisory Board, Seedrs Limited (online platform for investing seed capital) Lord Lucas Parliament.UK, accessed 22 December 2014 
When asked by the Wall Street Journal about his involvement with Seedrs, Palmer said, "I am a keen supporter of crowd funding." House of Lords Wall Street Journal, accessed 22 December 2014 
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Ralph Reed

Ralph Eugene Reed, Jr., (born 24 June 1961) is a conservative US political activist, a former associate of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the former executive director of Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition. 
In June 2009 Reed started The Faith and Freedom Coalition as 'a 21st-century version of the Christian Coalition...married with the modern technology of the internet sprinkled with the NRA (National Rifle Association) and AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee).' Reed told the Economist that FFC's base is '60% evangelicals, 25% Roman Catholics and 15% "other", such as conservative Jews.'Ralph's way: The Wunderkind returns, The Economist, 16 September 2010 The report adds:
:Mr Reed can cite some impressive numbers: an $8m budget; 1,000 members joining every day; 350,000 supporters, of which 150,000 are donors, and 350 local chapters. He is sending out 5m congressional scorecards and 21m voter guides.
==The Israel Lobby woos Reed==
Ralph Reed has served as the key liaison between the Israel lobby and the Christian Right. On 8 May 1995 he addressed AIPAC's annual conference, followed by a panel discussion on relations between Jews and the Christian Right. According to J.J. Goldberg, Reed's co-panelist Elliot Abrams said: 
:For any of us to allow our own political views to interfere with our cooperation with a group that is valiantly pro-Israel, it seems to me, is nuts. The American Jewish community was once under 4 percent of the population. It is now under 3 percent, and it is clearly heading for 2 percent. So the ability of the American Jewish community to protect Israel in the next generation is inevitably going to decline.Goldberg (1996): 109
To underscore his point, Abrams concluded:
:[We] may be in for an era when the influence of the American Jewish community is in decline. For that reason I say to you, I don't know whether Ralph Reed needs us, but we need Ralph Reed.Goldberg (1996): 109-110
==Affiliations==
*Christian Coalition
*Faith and Freedom Coalition
*AIPAC - addressed the 1995 annual conferenceGoldberg (1996): 109
==References==
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Ralph Robins

Sir Ralph Robins (16 June 1932) is a former CEO of Rolls Royce and a current director of Hakluyt's international advisory board The Holdingham Group Advisory Board.
==Career==
Robins joined Rolls Royce as a graduate apprentice in 1955 Dominic White Robins pulls away from Rolls Royce The Telegraph, 8 March 2002, accessed 25 September 2014 , working on the development of civil aero engines. During his career at Rolls Royce, he was executive vice president of the company's American operations, managing director of its Industrial and Marine Division and Commercial Director of the company. He held positions as CEO and Chairman and served 20 years on the board before retiring in 2003. Sir Ralph Robins profile Freestream, undated, accessed 25 September 2014 
He is a former Chairman of the Defence Industries Council and former President of the Society of British Aerospace Companies.
Since 21 October 2002, he has been a director of The Holdingham Group Advisory Board.
==Education==
*Attended Imperial College London. 
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Ralph Tabberer

Ralph Tabberer is the owner and chairman of BBD Education.
He has worked in many roles affecting education and schools, including National Foundation for Educational Research, Department for Children, Schools and Families and GEMS Education.
==Career==
Between 1994 and 1997 Tabberer was deputy director of National Foundation for Educational Research. Ralph Tabberer Linkedin, accessed 2 December 2014 
He was then appointed senior education adviser at the Department for Education and Skills.
In 2000 he was appointed chief executive of Teacher Training Agency, and then Training and Development Agency for Schools in 2005.
In March 2006 he was appointed director general of schools to the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
In April 2009 he was appointed chief education officer and COO of GEMS Education. In 2012 he was appointed a consultant to Large, where he "worked for investors and publishers looking for Middle Eastern and global opportunities, for governments seeking reform, and for schools seeking to make their provision 'better, broader and deeper'."
He is now the owner and chairman of BBD Education.
==Affiliations==
*Trustee, Peter Jones Foundation, September 2011. Ralp Tabberer Peter Jones Foundation, accessed 2 December 2014 
*Chief officer, schools, GEMS Education, April 2009-January 2012. Approved by ACOBA "subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer." Eleventh Report 2009-2010 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 2 December 2014 
==Education==
MA Cantab, Economics, Social and Political Science, University of Cambridge 1973-1976
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Ram Ben-Barak

==Career==
Former deputy chief of Mossad, Director General of the Ministry of Intelligence Services, and Director General of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs. Served as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. Currently President of Fortify Solutions Inc. and member of the Yesh Atid party.https://www.eng.arenajournal.org.il/swot-ram-ben-barak
**Board Member - Cyabra, Cyber Security & Disinformation Company. Israel 21c former Mossad deputy director Ram Ben Barak is on the company’s board of directors. Israel 21c Retrieved from Archive.today of 25 June 2020 on 25 June 2020.
**Chairman of the board at Eye-Minders. Wikipedia Ram Ben-Barak Wikipedia Retrieved from Archive.today of 25 June 2020 on 25 June 2020.
**Served as an advisor to the Israeli Embassy in Washington and a visiting research fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
**Deputy Head of Mossad 2009-2011
**Joned Mossad in 1984.
**IDF Counter-Terrorism Division, 1981.
===Education===
Ben-Barak is a graduate of the National Defense College and has an MA degree in Government and National Security from University of Haifa. Michael Bachner, Ex-deputy Mossad chief joins centrist Yesh Atid party Times of Israel, 15 Jan 2018, archived on 4 February 2022 at https://archive.ph/wip/qXpZ4 
==Activities==
==Contact==
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Ramallah District Coordination and Liaison Administration

The Ramallah District Coordination and Liaison Administration is a district of the Israeli Civil Administration in the West Bank. It covers the city of Ramallah, which is home to the Palestinian Authority, as well as other settlements such as Al-Bireh and Bil'in. The main Israeli settlement in the district is Bet El.District, Coordination&Liason Ramallah, Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories, accessed 22 June 2013.
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