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Greg Mills directs the Brenthurst Foundation. Olusegun Obasanjo was President of Nigeria (1999–2007) and Chairperson of the African Union (2004–2006). Tendai Biti is a constitutional lawyer, human rights activist, and former Zimbabwe finance minister. Jeffrey Herbst is President of the American Jewish University, Los Angeles. A political scientist, Professor Herbst taught at Princeton University for eighteen years and is the author of 'States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control' and many other books and articles. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Board of Freedom House, he has served on the advisory board of The Brenthurst Foundation since 2005