Board of Trustees
Current Members
Abdo George Kadifa
Chair of the Board
Managing Director and Partner Sumeru Equity Partners
Palo Alto, California
Ada H. Porter
Secretary of the University
New York, New York
Amabel James
Investor
New York, New York
Ayman Asfari
Founder and Executive Chairman, Venterra plc
Beirut, Lebanon
B. Philip Winder
Co-Founder and CEO, Polygon Investment Management
Princeton, New Jersey
Carlos Del Rio
H. Cliff Sauls Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Chair of Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
Decatur, Georgia
D. Scott Wise
Senior Counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
New York, New York
David C. Burke
CEO of Selby Lane Capital, LLC
Atherton, CA
David G. Bradley
Chair Emeritus, Atlantic Media
Washington, DC
Fadlo R. Khuri, MD
President, American University of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon
Fady Michel Abouchalache
Founding partner and Chairman, TriSpan
London, United Kingdom
Fares Noujaim
Co-Chair, Guggenheim Securities
New York, NY
Fouad Es-Said
Chairman and CEO of Transmed
Beirut, Lebanon
Franz-Josef Ulm, PhD
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hana El-Samad, PhD
Senior Vice President and Director of Science Integration, Innovation, and Insights
Altos Labs Founding Principal Investigator · Altos Labs Former Kuo Family Endowed Professor in Biochemistry & Biophysics, UCSF
San Francisco, California
Huda Y. Zoghbi, MD
Vice Chair for Academic Affairs
The Ralph D. Feigin Endowed Chair at Baylor College of Medicine · Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics, Neurology, and Neuroscience Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Founding Director, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, Texas
Jacques P. Merab, MD
Cardiology Specialist
New York, New York
Katherine Maher
President and CEO, National Public Radio
Washington, DC
Kevin Taweel
Chairman, Asurion
San Mateo, California
Maher Mikati
Chief Executive Officer, Areeba SAL
Deputy CEO, M1 Group CEO, M1 Fashion
Beirut, Lebanon
Melani Cammett
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Boston, MA
Nadim Tabbara
Executive Director, Suliman S. Olayan Charitable Foundation
Voula, Greece
Philippe Raymond Jabre
Founder and CEO, Jabre Capital Partners
Beirut, Lebanon
Rabih Fakhreddine
Founder and Group CEO, 7 Management
Dubai, UAE
Randa El-Sayed Haffar
Private Wealth Advisor, Morgan
New York, New York
Reeta Roy
Former President and CEO, Mastercard Foundation
Toronto, Canada
Said Samih Darwazah
Said Samih Darwazah
Chairman, Royal Jordanian Airlines · Chairman, Queen Rania Foundation
Amman, Jordan
Talal Shair
Chairman-CEO of Dar Al Handasah
Amman, Jordan
Tania Issa Semaan
Chairperson of Blu Stone Management Limited
Dubai, UAE
Viviane S. Tabar, MD
Chair, Department of Neurosurgery
Theresa C. Feng Chair for Neurosurgical Oncology · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
William Dodge Rueckert
President, Oyster Management
Group, LLC Southport, Connecticut · President, Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation
New York, New York
William Zoghbi, MD
Vice Chair for Medicine and Health
Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiology · Elkins Family Distinguished Chair in Cardiac Health · Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center · Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas
Emeriti
Alexander S. Geha, MD, MS
Alexander T. Ercklentz
Ann Z. Kerr-Adams
Carol Bellamy
David R. Bickers, MD
Farouk Jabre
HE Leila A. Sharaf
Herant Katchadourian, MD
Hisham Izzat Jaroudi
Hutham Olayan
Ibrahim Dabdoub
Jafar J. Jafar, MD
James Wei, ScD
Jose Zaglul, PhD
Joseph Martin, MD, PhD
Mu’taz Al-Sawaf
Munib R. Masri
Myrna Bustani
Nemeh Sabbagh
Paul J. Collins
Philip S. Khoury, PhD
Ray Irani, PhD
Riad B. T. Kamal
Walid Chammah
