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Board of Trustees (as of March 2012) 
Philip S. Khoury, PhD
Chairman of the Board
Ford International Professor of History and Associate Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Ray R. Irani, PhD
CoChairman
Executive Chairman, Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Los Angeles, California

Nemeh Sabbagh
Treasurer of the University
Chief Executive Officer, Arab Bank
Amman, Jordan

Dr. David R. Bickers
Vice Chairman for Medicine and Health
Carl Truman Nelson Professor and Chairman, 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

Hutham S. Olayan
Vice Chairman
President, Olayan America Corporation
New York, New York

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

Eileen F. O'Connor
Secretary of the University
New York, New York

Omar Alfardan
President
Alfardan Group
Doha, Qatar

Abdulla Al-Thani, PhD
President, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Vice President of Education, Qatar Foundation
Chairman, World Innovation Summit for Education
Doha, Qatar

Ayman Asfari
Chief Executive Officer, Petrofac Limited
London, United Kingdom

Carol Bellamy
Chair, Board of Directors of the Global Partnership for Education
New York, New York

Myrna Bustani
Partner, Construction and Trading Company (CAT Group)
Beirut, Lebanon and London, United Kingdom

Walid A. Chammah
Senior Advisor
Morgan & Co. International
London, United Kingdom

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

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

Said S. Darwazah
CEO
Hikma Pharmaceuticals
Amman, Jordan

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

Michael I. Fares
Private Investor
London, UK

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

Randa El-Sayed Haffar
Director, Citi Private Bank
Director, Elmer and Mamdouha Bobst Foundation
New York, New York

HE Saadeddine Rafic Hariri
Former Prime Minister
Beirut, Lebanon

Abdulsalam Haykal
CEO, Transtek Software
Founder and CEO, Haykal Media
President, Syrian Young Entrepreneurs Association
Damascus, Syria

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

Linda Jacobs
Independent Scholar
New York, New York

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

Riad B. T. Kamal
UAE based engineer and founder
Arabtec Construction LLC
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Rima Khalaf-Hunaidi, PhD
Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
Amman, Jordan

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

Fawzi Melhem
Managing Director of Radius
Beirut, Lebanon

HE Najib Mikati
Prime Minister of Lebanon, Founder and Vice Chairman of M1 Group
Beirut, Lebanon

Marwan Muasher, PhD
Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Washington, DC

Dr. Nawal Nour
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Boston, Massachusetts

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

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

Talal Shair

Chairman of Dar Al Handasah

Amman, Jordan

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

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

Najat Zarour
General Manager for Nada Biological Laboratory
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dr. Tawfik Zein
Consultant Urologist, Saudi Aramco
Saudi Arabia

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

Trustees Emeriti (as of March 2012)

Abdul Mohsen Al Qattan
Robert M. Borden
C. William Carson, Jr.
Paul J. Collins
Andrew Crockett
Richard A. Debs, PhD, AUB Chair Emeritus
Alfred C. Decrane, Jr.
HE Salim El Hoss, PhD
Alexander T. Ercklentz
Dr. Alexander S. Geha
Ali I. Ghandour
Dr. Frederic P. Herter
Martha S. Joukowsky, PhD
Dr. Herant Katchadourian

Ann Z. Kerr-Adams

Nicola N. Khuri, PhD
Sandy A. Mactaggart
Munib R. Masri

Dr. Thomas Q. Morris, AUB Chair Emeritus
Ambassador Richard W. Murphy
HE Leila A. Sharaf
HE Ghassan Tueni
Dr. Theodore B. Van Itallie
James Wei, PhD

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