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Mark Gatty Saunt, Finance Director, has more than seven years of past experience licensing content from the publishing industry for electronic distribution. Mr. Gatty Saunt served as Licensing Director, News & Business Division for The Dialog Corporation, a world wide leading content aggregator. During a five year period he negotiated and licensed the electronic rights to hundreds of titles and maintained over 250 individual publisher relationships. Following that, Mr. Gatty Saunt served as a content licensing expert for online syndication company iSyndicate, Inc., now wholly owned by YellowBrix, Inc. During his time at iSyndicate, Mr. Gatty Saunt focused on big brand content acquisition from the likes of Knight Ridder, Tribune Company and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). More recently, Mr. Gatty Saunt positions himself as an independent content sales and syndication consultant. He assists various content providers, such as British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), UPBEAT Entertainment News Online, Al-Bawaba and RDSL, with new distribution channels for their content. This mainly involves marketing and licensing the content to third party aggregators, on/offline syndicates, wireless companies, corporate websites and intranets.

Visiting Fellow at SDPI, is currently developing the humanities program at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) as a senior faculty member of the Department of Social Sciences. He comes to LUMS from the University of Pennsylvania where he has been on the faculty of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and of South Asian Studies. Following his postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University where he largely carried out his doctoral work as a transfer student from University College London, Dr. Nomanul Haq's university teaching career began in earnest with his faculty appointment at Tufts University after which he became Assistant Professor at Brown University, and then at Rutgers University, finally ending up at the University of Pennsylvania. During the years 2004 and 2005, Dr. Nomanul Haq held the title of Scholar-in-Residence at the US-Pakistan federally funded American Institute of Pakistan Studies in Islamabad and served as its Project Director. He is the author of several books, largely published in Europe and the USA, as well as numerous articles and papers in some of the world's most prestigious journals, international newspapers, and edited volumes including Nature, New York Times, and Daedalus. While being General Editor of Oxford University Press book series Studies in Islamic Philosophy, he also sits on the editorial boards of many learned periodicals. Dr. Nomanul Haq has received a large number of honors and awards, including the Templeton Prize for Religion and Science and the Pakistan League of America Annual Award, and has delivered many prestigious lectures in places such as Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the Humanities Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of UN-sponsored Forum on Religion and Ecology, and has also worked for several years as a journalist at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London.