Carnegie Middle East Center

"The Carnegie Middle East Center is a public policy think tank and research center based in Beirut, Lebanon. It was established in November 2006 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The Middle East Center draws on the successful experience of Carnegie’s Moscow Center, established in 1994, and also runs parallel to new Carnegie initiatives in Beijing and Brussels. "


 * Paul Salem - Center Director
 * Amr Hamzawy - Research Director

Staff
Accessed February 2011:


 * Joseph Helou - Research Assistant
 * Karim-Antoine Megarbane - Research Assistant
 * Layal Haidar - Receptionist
 * Nadim Hasbani - Communications Director
 * Joseph El-Khoury
 * Saad Mehio - Arabic Editor
 * Robert Naouss - Communications Coordinator
 * Maya Sawwan - Assistant Editor/Arabic Publications
 * Caroline Tabet - Human Resources & Administrative Coordinator

Advisory Council
Accessed February 2011:


 * Khaled Al Fayez - CEO, Gulf International Bank B.S.C. and Member of the Advisory Council of the Supreme Economic Council in Saudi Arabia
 * His Excellency Abdel Latif Al Hamad - Chairman, Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development and Founding Chairman of the Kuwait Development Fund
 * Umit Nazli Boyner - Executive Director, Boyner Holding A.S, Turkey
 * His Excellency Lakhdar Brahimi - Former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General and former Algerian Minister for Foreign Affairs
 * Ibrahim Dabdoub - CEO, National Bank of Kuwait and Chairman of many of the Bank’s subsidiaries
 * Rima Khalaf Al Hunaidi - Former Assistant Secretary General and Regional Director, UNDP/ former Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan / Former CEO of Mohamad Bin Rached Al Maktoum Foundation
 * Samer Khoury - Executive Vice President of Operations, Consolidated Contractors International Company S.A.I., Greece
 * Bassma Kodmani - Executive Director, Arab Reform Initiative، Paris
 * Tarek "Terry" Abdel-Meguid - Partner, Perella Weinberg Partners, New York
 * Hutham S. Olayan - President and CEO of Olayan America Corporation
 * Nassef Sawiris - Director and Chief Executive Officer, OCI (UK) LTD
 * Mahmoud Shammam - Managing Editor, Newsweek (Arabic Edition), Washington D.C. Bureau Chief, Foreign Policy Magazine
 * His Excellency Ghassan Tueni - Head of An-Nahar daily, Former Lebanese Parliamentarian, Minister and Ambassador to the UN

Contact
URL: http://carnegie-mec.org