Safwan M. Masri is Dean of Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) and a Distinguished Professor of the Practice at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Since joining GU-Q in October 2022, Dean Masri has championed initiatives that have strengthened the university’s position as a hub for global dialogue and interdisciplinary scholarship. Under his leadership, GU-Q has expanded its academic and research collaborations, launched new community engagement programs, and hosted signature events, such as the Hiwaraat conference series. Before joining Georgetown, Professor Masri served as Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University, where he oversaw the university’s global engagement strategy, and was a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. Prior to that, he held the position of Vice Dean and Professor at Columbia Business School, and previously taught engineering at Stanford University. Dean 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. He is the founding chairman of King’s Academy and Queen Rania Teacher Academy in Jordan. Currently, he serves as a trustee of International College in Beirut, and is a director of AMIDEAST and of Endeavor Jordan.