Libforall Foundation's board of directors includes its
founder, Chairman
and CEO,
C. Holland Taylor; its
co-founder, Patron and Senior Advisor,
Kyai Haji Abdurrahman Wahid
(Indonesia's first democratically-elected president and long-time
head of the world's largest Muslim organization);
Ahmad Dhani—celebrity singer, songwriter and leader of Dewa,
Indonesia’s leading rock group for more than a decade; and noted
philanthropist F. Borden Hanes, Jr.
Educated at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and
Princeton University, Mr. Taylor is an expert on Islam and the process of Islamization in Southeast
Asia. He has been involved with the Muslim world for over
four decades—having spent years in the Middle East and Indonesia.
An author, speaker and successful entrepreneur, Mr. Taylor is also
the former CEO of USA Global Link, which made telecommunications
history by introducing competition to previously monopolistic
markets, and dramatically lowering the cost of telecom services to
customers worldwide. Numerous business
publications have credited
Mr. Taylor as being one of the essential catalysts in the deregulation of the
global telecommunications industry in the 1990s.
H.E. Kyai Haji Abdurrahman Wahid is one of the world's most
highly-regarded Sunni Muslim leaders. His progressive mindset and
immense spiritual authority have been
instrumental in safeguarding Indonesia's traditions of religious
pluralism and tolerance in the midst of intense political and social
upheaval, and Wahhabi-inspired attempts to radicalize Indonesian
Islam. Custodian of one of the world's great religious
traditions, K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid is renowned for his protection of
ethnic and religious minorities—for which he was given the 2003
Friends of the United Nations Global Tolerance Award.
Rock superstar Ahmad Dhani is the managing director of a number of entertainment
industry production companies, including Dewa 19 Management,
Ahmad Studio, Ratu, Manusia Biasa and Ahmad Dhani Production.
Committed to promoting our shared vision of liberty and tolerance
to a mass audience, Dhani is using his celebrity and the tools of
popular culture to discredit religious extremism, as typified by
his group Dewa's recent best-selling albums,
Laskar
Cinta ("Warriors of Love") and
Republik Cinta
("Republic of Love").
F. Borden Hanes, Jr.—Vice Chairman of Bowen, Hanes and Company,
Investment Counsel—serves as Chairman of the John Wesley and Anna Hodgin Hanes
Foundation, and the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts.
Mr. Hanes is also the immediate past Chairman of the board of
trustees of
Old Salem Foundation, and past president of the Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art and SciWorks in Winston-Salem, NC. He is also a long-term
board member of the Cancer Center of Wake Forest University Medical
Center, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the National Development
Council of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and
Friends of the Library at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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