About the Speakers

Leila Hilal is currently Director of Detroit Workforce Funder Collaborative. Hilal lived in the West Bank for nearly a decade. She recently returned from Jordan. She is an international human rights lawyer and peacebuilding practitioner. She was based in Ramallah for nearly a decade in the 2000s, during which time she served as a legal advisor to Palestinian negotiation teams and then a policy advisor to the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. She has also served as a senior advisor to the Carter Center’s Conflict Resolution program and directed policy programming on the Middle East at New America in Washington, DC. She previously clerked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She currently advises global and US-based private foundations and nonprofit organizations. She holds a J.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo Law School and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. She is a member of the State Bar of New York. She served as the first staff director of IAF from 2019 - 2021 fostering its transition as a formal program of NMC.

Jack Segal is a former IAF Board co-chair and a retired senior U.S. diplomat who served in the U.S. Embassy in Israel as counselor for political/military affairs during the first Intifada and the Gulf War. Jack also served at the NSC as Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and later, Director for Non-Proliferation, and at NATO as Senior Political Adviser to NATO's operational commander in Afghanistan.