Born in 1953, Dr. Faouzi Skali, an anthropologist and an ethnologist; he is a professor from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Fes; an author of many publications including La Voie Soufi (The Soufi Path), Traces de Lumiere (Traces of Light) and Le Face à Face des Cœurs: Le soufisme aujourd'hui (A Dialogue of hearts: Sufism Today), he is the Director of the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music. Skali has taken the Festival a step further by coordinating a colloquium to follow the festival called Giving Soul to Globalization, a meeting place for humanitarians and international leaders in the business world to work together to develop more space for spirituality in the working world.