Farah Pandith is a foreign policy strategist, former diplomat and social entrepreneur.  She a Senior Fellow at the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has served as a political appointee in the George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Barack H. Obama administrations. She has served in various senior capacities focused on issues of countering violent extremism, democracy, development and Muslim youth. Most recently, she was appointed the first-ever Special Representative to Muslim by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (2009-2014).