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Board of Directors

Officers 

Edward Gnehm, Chair
Kuwait Professor, The Elliot School, George Washington University;Former Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait, Australia; Deputy Head,
U.S. Mission to the U.N.
Washington, DC

Alfred N. Khoury, M.D.,  Vice-Chair
Director, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, INOVA Fairfax Hospital
Washington, DC

Ilham Nasser, Ph.D., Vice-Chair
Professor of Early Childhood Eduction, George Mason University
Washington, DC

Murad Siam, Secretary of the Corporation
Managing Director, IDS Real Estate Group, Inc
Los Angeles, CA

William Corcoran, President & CEO*
Donna Diane, CFO*
George Doumar, Legal Counsel*

* Ex Officio Board Member

Board of Directors 

Gaby Ajram
Former CEO, Papercon, Inc.

Mary Lou Dunford Afifi
HR Consultant.

Curtis Brand
Former Chairman & CEO, Mobil Saudi Arabia
Former Board Chair, ANERA

Sandra Charles
Founding President & CEO, C&O Resources, Inc.

Kenneth H. Close
Founding Partner, Quincy International

George T. DeBakey
President, DeBakey International

Mazen T. Farouki
President, UniTrans International, Inc.

Jamie Gallagher
Vice-President, Government Relations, BAE Systems, Inc

Jeffrey Ghannam, Esq.
Attorney & Counselor, Law Offices of Jeffrey Ghannam, PLLC

Jean Glock
Director – Leisure and Group Travel, Connoisseur Travel, Ltd.

Lawrence A. Hamdan
Executive Chairman, Global Mergers & Acquisitions, Barclays Capital

Khalil Jahshan
Executive Director, Pepperdine University
Washington DC Internship Program

 

Randa Mansour-Shousher, AuD. CCC-A
Doctor of Audiology, Northewest Ohio Hearing Clinic

Robert Anton Mertz, Ph.D.
Former Project Manager, World Bank 

John P. Richardson
Writer
ANERA President 1973 – 1977 

Joseph P. Saba
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Senior Adviosr & Consultant for Operations in Conflict & Fragile States

James K. Sams
Principal, KPMG LLP

Jay Schnitzer, MD, Ph.D

Muna Shami, Ph.D.
Senior Research Analyst, American Institute for Research

Abdallah Simaika
Attorney, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP

Robert H. Trice
Former Senior Vice President, Global Strategies & New Business, Lockheed Martin

Tom C. Veblen
Convener, The Superior Business Firm Roundtable

Marcelle Wahba
President, DerMar International, LLC

Rochdi Younsi, Ph.D.
Director, International Government Relations, ExxonMobil

Samar Deifallah Zuaiter
Civic Leader