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Board of Trustees

Officers

Chair	Philip S. Khoury
Co-Chair and Treasurer	Nemeh Sabbagh
Vice Chair for Academic Affairs	Huda Y. Zoghbi
Vice Chair for Medicine and Health	William Zoghbi
Vice Chair for Information Technology and Innovation	Abdo George Kadifa
University Secretary	Ada H. Porter

Ayman Asfari	David G. Bradley
Walid A. Chammah	Hana El-Samad
Fouad Es-Said	Kim Ghattas
Nabil Antoine Habayeb	Randa El-Sayed Haffar
Abdulsalam Haykal	Philippe R. Jabre
Jafar J. Jafar	Amabel James
Sarine Karajerjian	Ricardo Karam
Fadlo R. Khuri	Katherine Maher
Jacques P. Merab	Maher M. Mikati
Marwan Muasher	William Dodge Rueckert
Mu'taz Sawaf	Tania Issa Semaan
Talal Shair	John E. Sununu
Viviane Tabar	Fuad Tamer
Kevin Taweel	Eve Troutt Powell
Franz-Josef Ulm	Kamel Wehbe
B. Philip Winder	D. Scott Wise

Trustees Emeriti

Carol Bellamy	David R. Bickers
Myrna Bustani	Ronnie Coffman
Ibrahim S. Dabdoub	Richard A. Debs
Salim El-Hoss	Alexander T. Ercklentz
Alexander S.	Geha Ray R. Irani
Farouk Kamal Jabre	Hisham Jaroudi
Riad B. T. Kamal	Herant Katchadourian
Ann Z. Kerr-Adams	Joseph B. Martin
Munib R. Masri	Thomas Q. Morris, Chair
Richard W. Murphy	Hutham Olayan
Leila A. Sharaf	James Wei
Frank G. Wisner	José A. Zaglul

International Advisory Council

Reem Acra	Abdlatif Al-Hamad
Abdulla Al-Thani	Mohammed AlGergawi
Altaf S. AlSabah	Scott Anderson
Lakhdar Brahimi	Bechara Choucair
Ryan Crocker	Bechara Choucair
Michael Crow	Richard A. Debs
Charles Elachi	Rodney Frelinghuysen
Badr Jafar	Moise A. Khayrallah
Howard Koh	Yo-Yo Ma
Thomas Q. Morris	Ronaldo Mouchahwar
Ralph Muller	Vali Nasr
Hutham Olayan	Victor Pentz Emily
Rafferty	George R. Salem
Peter Sellars	Adnan Shihab-Eldin
Anne-Marie Slaughter	Donna E. Shalala
Harold E. Varmus	Frank G. Wisner, Chair
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