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Dominic Bocci is the director of grants in the David Rockefeller Studies program at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is also a term member. Previously, Dominic has led various human-rights efforts in the Middle East and on gender and sexuality. He was formerly the programs manager at the Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality and was retained as an in-house rule of law and governance expert for the Cordoba Initiative. Prior to these positions, Dominic worked at the Bureau for Development Policy at UNDP, where he focused on civil-society engagement and international health policy. He is a former Fulbright Fellow to the United Arab Emirates, a presidential associate at the American University in Cairo, and a consultant at the Arcus Foundation. Dominic holds a B.A. (with honors) from UC-Berkeley and an M.A. from Columbia University.