Team – Peace University

Team Members

Dr. Robert Tedeschi

Dr. Tedeschi, a US Veteran, and an educationist have worked in health care education and technology verticals for over 30 years. He has headed departments, chaired commissions and committees on education and technology, administered and taught in several colleges and universities in class and in collaborative learning spaces.Dr. Tedeschi’s career combines a breadth and depth of administrative work and wisdom with in-depth knowledge and experience in the application of innovative educational techniques and technologies.

Rashad Khan

With over 30 years of industry experience in the US, Europe, and the Middle East, Rashad is a seasoned entrepreneur and management consultant, is currently serving as a Senior Advisor to the President and the Board. Mr. Khan has extensive experience in a wide range of areas including M&A, management consulting, programme and project management, finance, technology management, and business management. He currently advises multiple US firms, having built a vast network of trusted professionals and firms to provide resources and support. Rashad has successfully launched and exited multiple business ventures. He holds an MBA from Imperial College London and has previously served as a member of Fairfax County Criminal Justice Advisory Board.

Dr. Jacqueline F. Fuller

Dr. Fuller is an expert in programs and developing proposals to funding agencies around the design, implementation, and evaluation of outreach programs, with a particular emphasis on achieving broader impacts. Professor Fuller is a very detail-oriented passionate academician with extensive industry experience. Overseeing and participating in the simultaneous implementation of a wide range of outreach initiatives with varying timelines, budgets and funders. These initiatives are comprised of events, educational materials, programs, demonstration projects, and collaborations. identifying potential partners and programs, and working with other related programs/units to leverage existing related resources and partnerships.

Rebecca Thompson

Content Management Specialist and Education Subject Matter Expert, Ms. Thompson has been in the field of education for over 20 years. She has been deeply involved in curriculum development, designing content, instructional management and learning management systems from traditional printed material content to new media and web-based collaborative technologies.

Asif Shah

Meticulous, detail-oriented professional with the ability to improve productivity in high-tech business operations, Mr. Shah is trusted and valued for his ability to translate new technologies into highly efficient business solutions. He is an excellent communicator and presenter, with a proven record of training and leading productive teams. His areas of expertise, professional strength, and hands-on experience include, Project Management, Pre-approved Risibility Clearance, SCRUM, Process Improvement, Data Analysis, Query Language, Workflow Management/JIRA, Agile Sprint Sessions, Operational Streamlining, Root Cause Analysis, Problem Solving Skills, Productivity Improvement, Customer Relations Management Solutions, JAD Sessions, Quality Assurance, Quality Management, and User Acceptability Testing, Use Cases, E-Bills and eCommerce Solution.

Ziad Khan

A full time professor, and the dean of academics, Mr. Khan is a Sociopreneur, Filmmaker, Educator, Researcher, Women Enablement, and youth engagement activist. Capacity Building, Education, Technology, Media, and Business expert with over 28 years of Executive and Entrepreneurial leadership experience in a vast array of international organizations. 22 years of experience providing effective academic and technical leadership and oversight of academic operations spread across several continents. Philanthropist and volunteer to the core, Mr. Kahn has been offering education, learning, and training solutions to over 50,000 individual students, governments, corporations, and not-for-profit organizations. Mr. Khan is an active faculty and administration member involved in teaching classes and managing programs.

Marry Chambers

Learning Methods, Human Resources, and Organizational Development are some of the specialty areas that Ms. Chambers brings to the esteemed Peace faculty. Research methods, design, and social media are vastly her areas of interest coupled with Neurosciences concepts of brain-based learning. Ms, Chambers has an extensive network and is widely respected amongst entrepreneurial circles, and has frequently advised on the matter of capacity building, enhanced employee performance, career growth, leadership and management skills, recruitment services, talent management, and other Organizational Development strategies.

Monica Marshall

Ms. Marshall is a highly motivated, energetic, and results-driven team member with in-depth knowledge of social media marketing for education. Areas of expertise include health, fitness and holistic healing, nutrition, maths, and social matters. Monica is currently involved in school management and community development programs. She is very social and has meaningful discourse to drive innovative and comprehensive solutions for Women’s Enablement and Youth Engagement issues. She devotes her time to enabling women by arranging resources for issues like rights, violence, health, women-literacy, and help young women prepare to live a prosperous and successful life.

Kate de Jude

began working in visual arts after inspiration came through the paintings of touring English artist, Aldous Eveleigh. She has developed this innovative art form over many years and manipulates wire in a specialized and fascinating way. Sculptures are created with a single strand of wire. Subject matter traverses time through vignettes of everyday life creating a sculptural diary of thoughts and fascinations. Alongside this, Ms. de Jude has set new standards of collaborative teamwork and offshore resource utilization.

Dr. Saman Hasan

While administering schools of general interest, Dr. Hassan’s area of expertise is Islamic schools in North America, she has extensive research in education with a specialization in legal aspects, rules, and regulatory frameworks. She is currently very actively involved in the education industry as a professional and helps several organizations on a voluntary basis for the love of expanding literacy and education around the globe.

Dr. William Taget Jr.

Dr. Taget has a doctorate in Technology Deployments for educational institutions. He is a veteran researcher and education administrator besides being one of the most popular teachers and mentors at the school. He works with many government agencies, not-for-profit organizations, and industry-leading corporations with reference to his research, development, and educational interests.

Dr. Khuram Farooq

Audit finance, accounting information technology, and enterprise resource planning expert, Dr. Farooq continues to work with the Auditor Generals department, Siemens, and the World Bank besides Digital International.

Linda Washington

Linda Washington is an information technology and customer relations expert with over 20 years of experience with United States federal and many other state governments. She has worked with many high-profile international companies.

Tatiana Shukova

With a keen interest in applied aspects of the interfaith domain, Ms. Shukova is an interactive, solution-focused professional with more than 10 years of experience. Her approach is to provide insight, support, and constructive feedback to help effectively address life challenges. She has successfully integrated complementary methodologies and techniques to offer a highly personalized approach with compassion and understanding, her work encompasses helping to build on strengths and attain growth in the subject area.

Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa

Dr. Siddiqa, the author of several books, regularly speaks at international conferences and seminars on a wide array of interests including public policy, strategy, socio-economic and socio-political causes. She is a fellow of several think-tanks and lectures in international institutions of repute. She also travels extensively and teaches in schools around the world.

Shakera Bassit

A specialist in finance and economics, Ms. Bassit has done extensive research in such areas relevant to literacy and school education and has written several papers and published reports on the economic development in the Islamic world. Her current area of interest includes holistic development, training, and early education.

Tamsila Akhtar

Ms. Akhtar is a Digital Marketing, Productions, and Social Media Marketing veteran. She has worked with a wide array of industry organizations from TV stations to New Outlets. She is an empathetic and assertive leader and a great team player. Her portfolio is rapidly expanding internationally.

Doreen Cohanim C. Ht.

Ms. Cohanim has been teaching, training, and treating in holistic healing and psychological disciplines. She uses a diverse range of collaborative learning tools including video conferencing, managed learning, and other collaborative tools. She’s very passionate about training and professional development.

Prima Khan

Ms. Khan has vast international experience in the education industry as a faculty teaching, training, and administering educational institutions. She worked in institutions of learning at lower and higher levels as well as international professional schools. Ms. Khan has extensive experience in diversity and multi-ethnic communities. She is a law graduate.

Dr. Sana Yusfi

Dr. Yusfi is an expert in management, trade, and investment; she has worked with the governments negotiating numerous investment and development programs internationally. Working extensively in the areas of development finance, auditing, and revenue collection, she has headed several state departments, forming policies constructing workshops, training, and capacity building programs on a large scale.

Indah Sari

Ms. Sari is a skilled platform professional who handles Digital, online and Social Media Marketing programs and projects. She is able to develop, administer and manage multiple platforms and platform independent tools to perform complex systems to increase efficiency and productivity. She works with industry heavy weights and community organizations alike. She is a thorough professional, very focused on professional development and technology application for growth and development. Her experience in diverse and international and she’s always available to help fellow professionals, students and clients.

Mahmood Akhtar Rana

Expertise in analysis of education public policy, project planning, monitoring, and evaluation, Mr. Rana has vast experience working with governments, corporate and not-for-profit institutions. He has been involved in teaching and training as a lifelong passion. His expertise also includes working with international organizations, donors, funders, and program development groups.

Laura Standley

Ms. Standley, an experienced and passionate faculty member, is a retired Military Intelligence Warrant Officer with a combined twenty years of active U. S Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard military service. Ms. Standley has spent six years as a service officer in the American Legion assisting veterans and their dependents in applying for benefits from the Veterans Administration (VA), as well as other government agencies. Ms. Standley has a keen mind for understanding bureaucratic processes, researching, and analyzing problems and situations.

Safeeullah Soomro

A Computer Science scholar and scientist from Graz University of Technology, Austria, and a Postdoc from UMB Slovakia and Senior Fellow HEA(UK). An invited and keynote speaker at different international national and conferences, with research in Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, IoT, Big Data Analysis, and Software Maintenance. Dr. Soomro has been the chair of many international conferences which are indexed by Scopus, Google, and ISI indexing. He is a member of many professional societies like iEEE< ACM, IAER, IENG, and ISOC. He has edited books and conferences proceedings of Springer and IEEE. He has written 80 research papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals.

Denise DeSilva

After completing her education and trying various different fields in terms of work and career, Ms. DeSilva developed her interest in HR and since then she has been an HR manager and executive for last over 20 years and she has worked with a variety of multinational corporations and educational institutions in international settings.

Shruti Shah

Ms. Shah has worked with international education and training organizations for over 25 years. Her area of expertise is staff development initiatives and training programs. Ms. Shah has also worked significantly in capacity building, soft and life skills. She has worked passionately with students in personal development and strength training using different modes of instruction.

Dr. Sabrina Bordic

Having in-depth experience of working with inner-city schools, Dr. Bordic has her doctorate in public policy implications for inner-city educational institutions. She has worked closely with many government agencies about youth employment and government funding for employment-based training.

Mian A. Rauf

With almost every significant certification and qualification in Finance and Accounting in the UK and USA, Mr. Rauf is one of the most diversified accounting, tax, and finance veterans. Having worked with several organizations of repute including KPMG, and the US federal government, his experience is extensive in auditing, finance development, and accounting.

Anita Sachdev

A certified international corporate coaching expert, motivational speaker, and education and training veteran for over 30 years, Ms. Sachdev has worked with corporations from all over the world in staff training, executive development corporate productivity improvement.

Sumbul Khan

Ms. Khan fosters an undaunted passion for environmental conservation and sustainability. She went ahead and specialiezed in her passion through a master’s degree in Zoology and a certificate program in Environmental Studies. She lendss her passion as a project coordinator at environmental consultancies in South Asia and the Middle East. Sumbul is committed to protecting the environment and promoting sustainable practices. We are privileged to have her in our team here at Peace.University, USA.

Fayyaz Raja

Mr. Raja is a media veteran. A working journalist with 23 years of field experience in traditional and new media including print, electronic, and multimedia journalism. Fayyaz has worked in Top News Organisations in dynamic positions and has played a vital role in upholding and promoting journalistic values and principles. Mr. Raja is a passionate educationist as well and has been educating and training batches after batches of media professionals. Peace.University, Center of Excellence in Media, Arts and Design (M.A.D)is fortunate to have Mr. Raja as its Head.

Asad Yar Khan

Asad Yar Khan is an experienced writer and educator who has a passion for education and a flair for words. Mr. Khan has crafted engaging and informative content for various Edtech companies in different domains and formats. He has served as the leader of the Academy of Mass Communication, an educational not for profit that fosters creative writing and other skills among students and teachers. He possesses expertise in copywriting, research, creativity, wordpress, SEO writing, and digital marketing. He can produce high-quality blogs, mails, google ads, landing pages, PR and ad content for various purposes and audiences.

Saba Akram

Saba Akram is an educationist interested in Information Technology, focusing on SQL and database management. With hands-on experience in Moodle and WordPress development, She excels in creating and maintaining robust e-learning platforms. Saba’s proactive problem-solving skills and strong communication and leadership abilities enable her to manage complex IT projects and engage effectively with students and colleagues. Her commitment to leveraging technology to enhance educational experiences underscores her dedication to advancing the academic community.

Subrata Banerjee

Subrata Banerjee is an educator and faculty member with over 18 years of dedicated experience in social sector development. He has collaborated extensively with over 20 countries, particularly in the Global South, focusing on Social Inclusion and Inclusive Development, Education, Gender Equality, and Women Empowerment. His work involves international development cooperation, advising national governments, and engaging with CSOs, UN missions, and academic institutions. Mr. Banerjee specializes in programme design, capacity building, MEAL, and policy development, advocating for human freedoms, diversity, equity, and ethical leadership to foster an egalitarian society.