Dahlia Mogahed is a senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, as well as the newly established Abu Dhabi Gallup Center. Mogahed leads the analysis of unprecedented surveys of Muslims worldwide, including in the US and Europe. She co-authored the groundbreaking book Who Speaks for Islam?. In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Mogahed to the White House Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, making her the first Muslim-American woman to hold a position of this seniority. Mogahed was invited to testify before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on US engagement with Muslim communities and serves on the US Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council. Mogahed also serves on the boards of Freedom House, Women in International Security, and Soliya, and she is a nonresident fellow at Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy at the American University of Beirut.