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Officers | 2008-2009

Curtis W. Brand, Chair*
Former Chairman and CEO, Mobil Saudi Arabia
Washington, DC

Edward Gnehm, Vice 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

Mike de Graffenried, Treasurer & Secretary of the Corporation*
CEO, Qatar First Investment Bank
Doha, Qatar

William D. Corcoran, President/CEO**
Philip E. Davies, Vice President**
Bill Hopkins, CFO**

* Board Members
** Ex Officio Board Member

 

Board of Directors | 2008-2009


Mona Aboelnaga Kanaan
President, Proctor Investment Managers LLC
New York, NY

Gaby Ajram
Former CEO, Papercon, Inc.
Highland Beach, FL

Marleine Davis
Director, Global Government Affairs, Middle East and North Africa Motorola
Washington, DC

George DeBakey
Director, Business Development, ePals
Potomac, MD

Ronald A. Dudum
Real Estate Manager
San Francisco, CA

James Gallagher
President, The Gallagher Group, LLC
Arlington, VA

Curtis G. Giesen
President, Dashboard Ventures, LLC
New York, NY

James Hagerty
Partner and Co-Founder, Kalbian Hagerty LLP
Washington, DC

Richard C. Hall
Director, Corporate Government Affairs, Intel
Folsom, CA

Lawrence A. Hamdan
Managing Director, Credit Suisse First Boston
New York, NY

Nadia Hijab
Director, Development Analysis and Communications Services, DACS
Washington, DC

Randa Fahmy Hudome
President, Fahmy Hudome International, LLC
Washington, DC

Khalil Jahshan
Executive Director, Pepperdine University Washington DC Internship Program
Washington, DC

Judith Judd
Lawyer and Civic Leader
Cherry Hills Village, CO

 


Vicken Kalbian, M.D.
Medical Director, Valley Health Services
Winchester, VA

Alfred N. Khoury, M.D.
President, Perinatal Associates of Northern Virginia
Fairfax, VA

Randa Mansour-Shousher, AuD. CCC-A
Doctor of Audiology,Northwest Ohio Hearing Clinic
Toledo, OH

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

Ilham Nasser, Ph.D.
Professor of Early Childhood Education, George Mason University
Falls Church, VA

Frances Stickles
Writer and Civic Leader
Gaithersburg, MD

Samir I. Toubassy
President, Olayan Development Corporation, Ltd.
Group Vice President, The Olayan Group
London, United Kingdom

Tom Veblen
Convener, The Superior Business Firm Roundtable
London, United Kingdom

Nicholas Veliotes
Former Ambassador to Egypt and Jordan; Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and South Asia
McLean, VA

James Walker
Managing Partner, Fir Tree Partners
New York, NY

Ira T. Wender
Former Partner
Patterson, Belknap, Webb, & Tyler
New York, NY

Oliver D. Zandona
Senior Advisor, International Government Relations
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Washington, DC

Samar Deifallah Zuaiter
Civic Leader
Grenwich, CT