Ramez F. Sousou

Ramez Sousou is Founder and co-CEO of TowerBrook Capital Partners. TowerBrook is an international investment firm operating in Europe and the United States.

Mr Sousou was previously co-Head of Soros Private Equity and was a member of the Management Committee of Soros Fund Management. Prior to that, he was a senior member of the Principal Investments group of Goldman Sachs.

He is a Trustee of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) and the American School in London. He is also a Trustee and the founding Chairman of the Private Equity Foundation, the leading European venture philanthropy organisation. Mr Sousou is Chairman of Alpha Partners and sits on the International Board of the U.S./Middle East Project.

Mr Sousou is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.



General Brent Scowcroft, Eric Melby and Henry Siegman

General Brent Scowcroft, Eric Melby and Henry Siegman

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OBAMA MUST BROKER A NEW MIDEAST PEACE

As a new Middle East has begun to be shaped by citizens in individual countries, one issue appears conspicuously unaffected, at least on the surface: the Arab-Israeli dispute over Palestine.The US has more direct interests at stake in ensuring a lasting peace between Israel and Palestine than it does in the outcome in most other countries in the region, writes General Brent Scowcroft. Remaining silent on deadlocked negotiations over a two state solution, while encouraging greater democratisation in other countries, suggests a double standard that damages America’s image in the Middle East and the broader Muslim world.

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