Safwan M. Masri is Dean of Georgetown University in Qatar and Distinguished

 Professor of the Practice at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.

 

 Prior to joining Georgetown, Professor Masri was Executive Vice President for

 Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University, and a Senior

 Research Scholar at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. He

 joined Columbia University in 1988 as a member of the faculty of Columbia

 Business School, and served as Vice Dean from 1993-2005. He previously taught

 engineering at Stanford University and was a visiting professor at INSEAD (Institut

 Européend’Administration des Affaires) in France. Masri is the author of Tunisia:

 An Arab Anomaly (Columbia University Press, 2017). He is a lifetime member of

 the Council on Foreign Relations and an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy

 Association. Masri is also a trustee of International College, serves as a director of

 AMIDEAST and Endeavor Jordan. He was founding chairman of King’s Academy

 and the Queen Rania Teacher Academy, and served as an advisor to Her Majesty

 Queen Rania Al Abdullah.