PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Vice President, Public Relations and Membership, Academy of International Business, USA, Southwest Chapter, 2004-06.
• Vice President, Public Relations and Membership, Academy of International Business, USA, Southwest Chapter, 2002-04.
• Member, Academy of International Business, USA
• Member, Association of Iowa Economists, Iowa, USA
• Member, International Society for Quality of Life Studies, USA

COMMUNITY SERVICE

• Member, Strategic Planning Steering Committee (NEASC, undergraduate programs), Lebanese American University, Lebanon, 2005-06.
• Member, Admissions Council, Lebanese American University, Lebanon, 2005-06.
• Member, Student Campus Life Council, Lebanese American University, Lebanon, 2004-05.
• Member, University Curriculum Council, Lebanese American University, Lebanon, 2004-05.
• Founder and Faculty Adviser, Econ Club, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon, 2004-to present.
• Founding President, Alumni Association of the Notre Dame University, Lebanon, 1991-95.
• Co-founder, Placement Office, Notre Dame University, Lebanon, 1993.
• Faculty Adviser, Rest of the World (ROW) soccer club, Wartburg College, Iowa, December 2001-04.
• Faculty Suite Adviser, Student Grossman Suite, Theme: “Current International Events”, Wartburg College, Iowa, 2003-04.
• Committee Member, Global and Multicultural Studies, Wartburg College, Iowa, 2002-04.
• Expert Opinion. A frequent guest speaker and lecturer at various events and media outlets with such recent examples as the interview by the Associated Press business writer Ted Anthony in his distributed story “Terror Concerns Pacific Rim Nations;” the 60-minute TV show “Here & There” on Channel 15 in Iowa, USA (special program: “Middle East Economics and Counterterrorism”); the “Evening Update” program on National Public Radio in Northridge, California, October 2001; the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, February 2003, vol. XXII (1); and the keynote speaker at the Special program on the National Broadcasting Network (NBN) Channel in June 2004.