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Board of Trustees  (as of July 2009)

Dr. Philip S. Khoury
Chair of the Board
Ford International Professor of History and Associate Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dr. Ray R. Irani
Co-Chair
Chairperson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Los Angeles, California

Mr. Alexander T. Ercklentz
Vice Chair for Finance and Treasurer of the University
Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co
New York, New York

Dr. David R. Bickers
Vice Chair for Medicine and Health
Carl Truman Nelson Professor and Chair, Department of Dermatology
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center;
Director, Dermatology Service, Columbia Campus, New York Presbyterian Hospital
New York, New York

Mrs. Eileen F. O'Connor
Secretary of the University

Mr. Yusef Rabah Abu Khadra
Former Executive Director of Investcorp Securities
London, UK

Mr. Eisa M. Al Eisa
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Samba Financial Group
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mr. Omar Alfardan
President
Alfardan Group
Doha, Qatar

Mr. Ayman Asfari
Chief Executive Officer, Petrofac Limited
London, UK

Ms. Carol Bellamy
President and Chief Executive Officer World Learning
Washington and Vermont, USA

Mrs. Myrna Bustani
Partner, Construction and Trading Company (CAT Group)
Beirut, Lebanon and London, UK

Senator Lincoln Chafee
Former United States Senator from Rhode Island, and Visiting Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

Mr. Walid A. Chammah
Co-President
Morgan Stanley
London, UK

Mr. Nabil Chartouni
Chairperson
Acropolis Capital Group
London, UK

Dr. W. Ronnie Coffman
International Professor of Plant Breeding and Director of International Programs
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

Mr. Ibrahim S. Dabdoub
Chief Executive Officer of the National Bank of Kuwait
Kuwait

Dr. Peter F. Dorman
President, American University of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon

Mr. Michael I. Fares
Private Investor
London, UK

Dr. Alexander S. Geha
Professor Emeritus of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Illinois
Medical Center at Chicago
Ranch Santa Fe, California

Mr. Carlos Ghosn
President and Chief Executive Officer, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan
President and Chief Executive Officer, Renault
Paris, France

Mr. William R. Hambrecht
Founder, Chairperson and Co-Chief Executive Officer, WR Hambrecht + Co
San Francisco, California

Mr. Saadeddine Rafic Hariri
Prime Minister
Beirut, Lebanon

Mr. Abdulsalam Haykal
Chief Executive Officer, Transtek Software, and SAC Mobile Payment
President, Syrian Entrepreneurs Association
Damascus, Syria

 
Dr. Jafar J. Jafar
Department of Neurosurgery
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
New York University Medical Center
New York, New York

Mr. Farouk K. Jabre
Economist and Chairperson of the Board of Dar Al Aytam Al Islamyah
Treasurer, Children's Cancer Center and Director Holcim Lebanon SAL
Beirut, Lebanon

Dr. Thomas P. Jacobs
Professor of Clinical Medicine and Endocrinology
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
New York, New York

Dr. Martha S. Joukowsky
Professor Emerita, Brown University, Department of Anthropology and
Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology and the Ancient World,
Director, Brown University Petra Great Temple Excavations
Providence, Rhode Island

Mr. Riad B. T. Kamal
UAE based engineer and founder
Arabtec Construction LLC
Dubai, UAE

Mrs. Ann Z. Kerr-Adams
Fulbright Coordinator, International Institute, University of California at Los Angeles
Pacific Palisades, California

Dr. Rima Khalaf-Hunaidi
Former Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States, UNDP.
Amman, Jordan

Dr. Joseph B. Martin
Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts

Mr. Munib R. Masri
Founder and Chairperson of the Engineering and Development Group (Edgo),
Amman, Jordan
Founder and Chairperson of Palestine Development and Investment Company (Padico),
Nablus, Palestine

H. E. Najib Mikati
Former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Founder and Vice Chairperson of M1 Group
Beirut, Lebanon

Dr. Marwan Muasher
Senior Vice President External Affairs, The World Bank
Washington, D.C.

Mr. Clifford G. Mumm
Senior Vice President, Bechtel Group, and President, Bechtel Infrastructure Corporation
Frederick, Virginia

Ms. Hutham S. Olayan
President, Olayan America Corporation
New York, New York

Dr. Gabriel M. Rebeiz
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD
LaJolla, California

Ms. Sana H. Sabbagh
Wyoming Investment Corporation
New York, New York

H.E. Leila A. Sharaf
Jordanian Senator and former Minister of Information, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Philadelphia University in Jordan
Amman, Jordan

Mr. Raja Trad
Chief Executive Officer Leo Burnett Group of Companies Mediterranean
Dubai, UAE

Mr. B. Philip Winder
Managing Director, Polygon Investment Management
Princeton, New Jersey

Mr. Frank G. Wisner
International Affairs Advisor
Patton Boggs LLP
New York, New York

Dr. José A. Zaglul
President, Earth University
San José, Costa Rica

Dr. Huda Y. Zoghbi
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Marvin Fishman Chair in Pediatric Neurology Research
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neurology,
and Neuroscience
Houston, Texas


Trustees Emeriti (as of July 2009)

Mr. Robert M. Borden
Mr. C. William Carson, Jr.
Mr. Paul J. Collins
Mr. Andrew Crockett
Dr. Richard A. Debs - (AUB Chair Emeritus)
Mr. Alfred C. Decrane, Jr.
Mr. Ali I. Ghandour
Dr. Frederic P. Herter
H.E. Salim El Hoss


Dr. Herant Katchadourian
Dr. Nicola N. Khuri
Mr. Sandy A. Mactaggart
Dr. Thomas Q. Morris - (AUB Chair Emeritus)
Ambassador Richard W. Murphy
Mr. Abdul Al Qattan
H.E. Ghassan Tueni
Dr. Theodore B. Van Itallie
Dr. James Wei

 

 

 

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