Our Board of Directors is a group of accomplished leaders who share Anera's goals and bring a variety of talents, expertise and experiences to the organization.
Officers
Joseph P. Saba
Chair
Adjunct Professor, Loyola Law School (Chicago)
Senior Advisor for Conflict and Fragility at the World Bank
Grace Tompkins
Vice Chair
Educational Specialist
Lawrence A. Hamdan
Treasurer
Executive Chairman, Global Mergers & Acquisitions, Barclays Capital
Sanaa Abouzaid
Secretary of the Corporation
Regional Corporate Governance Lead, MENA – International Finance Corporation
Ex Officio Board Members
Sean Carroll
President and CEO
Liz Demarest
Vice President, Communications
Donna Diane
Chief Financial Officer
George Doumar
Legal Councel
Doumar Martin PLLC
Board Members
Jim Abdo
Founder, President & CEO of Abdo Development LLC
Jihan Andoni
CEO, Zeva Incorporated
Zeina Azzam
Publications Editor, Arab Center Washington DC
Nader Barakat
Cofounder and Principal Hardware Engineer, Xirgo Technologies, LLC
Teresa C. Barger
Founding Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, Cartica Capital
Judy M. Barsalou, Ph.D.
Former President, El-Hibri Foundation
Kenneth H. Close
CEO & Founding Partner, The Quincy Group
Mourad Elayan
Founder & CEO, MB Management
Tarek Ghandour
International Sales Manager, Metito International Inc
Jean Glock
Owner, President, JNG Worldwide
John Gurley
Partner, Arent Fox LLP
Matt Haddad
Senior Associate General Counsel, Anthem, Inc.
Alison Hills
Vice President Public and Government Affairs, Total Energies
Piney Kesting
Owner, Piney Kesting, Writing and Consulting
Alfred N. Khoury, M.D.
Director, INOVA Fairfax Hospital, Professor in Depts. of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University and George Washington University
Nabil Elie Khoury, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., F.A.C.P.
Medical Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sparrow Hospital Regional Medical Director, Emergency Physicians Medical Group
Rania Kiblawi
Senior Public Affairs Advisor at Aramco Services Company
Samar Hussein Langhorne
Nonprofit Organization Management Professional
Jeffrey Mansour
Program Director, Thompson Charitable Foundation
Thairah "Cindy" Mousa
Director Employee Relations, Ochsner Health System
Mona Naffa
Monaco Holdings/ USA-Jordan
Kathleen Ridolfo
Executive Director, Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center, Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman
Fred Rogers
Vice President & Treasurer, Carleton College
Kathleen Rogers
President, Earth Day Network, Washington DC
James K. Sams
Principal, KPMG LLP
Mamoon Sbeih
President of Middle East & North Africa, APCO Communication Consultancy
Murad M. Siam
Co-Founder, President & CEO, IDS Real Estate Group, Inc
Robert Trice
Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Business Development, Lockheed Martin Corporation, ret.
Katherine Wilkens
Senior Advisor, National Democratic Institute
Omar Zalatimo
Director, Functional Neurosurgery, Co-Director, Comprehensive Spine Center at The Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute
