Mark Evans, MBE is the Executive Director of Outward Bound Oman, the first Outward Bound school in the Arab world. He is Patron of the Andrew Croft Memorial Fund, a fellow of The Explorers Club, and the founder of Connecting Cultures, an educational initiative endorsed by UNESCO that uses the desert wilderness to bring future leaders together on journeys of intercultural dialogue. Connecting Cultures was cited by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations as one of the world’s leading civil society initiatives