for the World Intellectual Property Organization from 1999–2002. He has served as the president of the Club of Rome from 1999 to 2007, the board of directors for the Center for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at the University of Oklahoma, the Parliament of Cultures, the Royal Jordanian Polo Club, and the International Tolerance Foundation for Humanities and Social Studies, and is honorary president of the Euro-Mediterranean Association for Cooperation and Development since 2012. Prince Hassan is also a patron of the Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit at the University of York, the Swiss Rights and Humanity non-profit organization, the British Institute in Amman, and the Woolf Institute, in addition to being a member of the Global Leadership Foundation, the Chairman the United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, the Advisory Board of British think tank Gold Mercury International, the board of directors of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (since 2002), the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue (FIIRD) at University of Geneva, Switzerland, the Executive Committee of the International Crisis Group, the International Advisory Board of Forum 2000, the Committee of Personalities of Institut Catala De La Mediterrania, the Informal Advisory Group to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, the International Board of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of World Religious Leaders for the Elijah Interfaith Institute, the Trilateral Commission, the Advisory Council for Research of the Center for Democracy and Community Development (since 2010), and the Independent Eminent Experts group of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance. Honours National : Honorary Knight Grand Cordon with Collar of the Order of al-Hussein bin Ali Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Renaissance Grand Cordon of the Order of the Star of Jordan Grand Cordon of the Order of Independence Grand Cordon of the Order of the Star of Jordan Grand Cordon of the Decoration of the Star of the Hashemites Order of the State Centennial Foreign : Grand Cross of the Order of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, 1st Class : Collar of the Order of Khalifa Ethiopian Imperial Family: Grand Cordon of the Order of Solomon : Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary : Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian