Our Team

The NCUSLR Advisory Board is an international group of experts, including well known and experienced (former) diplomats and scholars. Its members are American, European, Egyptian, and Libyan premier experts on Libya as well as prominent Libyans reflecting all parts of the country. Our Advisory Board is chaired by Wolfgang Pusztai, a former Austrian Defense Attaché to Libya and a seasoned Security and Policy analyst.

NCUSLR Advisory Board roles include:

• Provide NCUSLR with specific knowledge, understanding and strategic thinking complementary to the existing skills within the Board of Directors.

• Offer non-binding, but well-informed strategic advice, in particular on issues raised by the Board of Directors

• Provide unbiased insights on Libyan affairs

• Act as “ambassadors” for NCUSLR

• Facilitate contacts to persons, who are important for NCUSLR to achieve its goals

• Offer assistance to the Board of Directors with anything from developing master messages, concrete products, marketing/promotion to planning events

• Encourage and support the exploration of new business ideas

More specifically, all Advisory Board members are invited to be engaged in activities of relevance to the NCUSLR, e.g. to:

• Promote public writings about Libya also through NCUSLR social media outlets

• Contribute to Advisory Board papers

• Advocate in the USA or elsewhere to significant institutes or individuals on behalf of the NCUSLR

• Participate as speakers at national or international conferences which address Libya

• Participate at national or international conferences which address Libya

• Write brief comments on current Libya related affairs on our webpage

• Give a significant philanthropic gift.

NCUSLR Advisory Board members are invited to participate in special events, e.g. the Washington-based periodic Libya Study Group, and receive specific information about NCUSLR activities and background information about developments in Libya.