About 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.

Beirut The Middle East Center is concerned with the challenges facing political and economic development in the Arab World, Turkey and Iran. It brings together senior local researchers from the region to work on in-depth research relating to critical matters facing the countries and peoples of the region. The Center aims to better inform the process of political change in the Arab Middle East and deepen understanding of the complex economic and security issues that affect it.

The Carnegie Middle East Center is part of Carnegie’s well-established Middle East Program and will build on standards and approaches the Program has developed over the past years. The work is further enriched by project-specific collaborations with Carnegie scholars in Washington, Moscow and Beijing as well as with a wide variety of research centers within the Middle East and Europe. This distinctive approach provides policy makers, practitioners and activists in all countries with analysis and recommendations that are deeply informed by knowledge and views from the region, enhancing the prospects for effectively addressing its particular challenges.

The Carnegie Middle East Center’s focus is on policy-relevant, empirical research on key political and socio-economic issues. It aims to reach a number of constituencies, including policy makers, practitioners, academics and journalists; as well as international organizations, civil society actors and ordinary citizens in Middle Eastern countries who may benefit from the Center’s work.

An Advisory Council comprised of distinguished national and international leaders from the policy, business, expert and civil society sectors of countries across the Middle East, provide the Center with advice and support.

 

Carnegie Middle East Center Advisory Council

  • Dr. 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
  • Ms. 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
  • Dr. Ibrahim Dabdoub

    CEO, National Bank of Kuwait and Chairman of many of the Bank’s subsidiaries
  • Dr. 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
  • Mr. Samer Khoury

    Executive Vice President of Operations, Consolidated Contractors International Company S.A.I., Greece
  • Dr. Bassma Kodmani

    Executive Director, Arab Reform Initiative، Paris
  • Mr. Tarek "Terry" Abdel-Meguid

    Partner, Perella Weinberg Partners, New York
  • Ms. Hutham S. Olayan

    President and CEO of Olayan America Corporation
  • Mr. Nassef Sawiris

    Director and Chief Executive Officer, OCI (UK) LTD
  • Mr. 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
 

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Bldg. No. 2026 1210, 5th flr.
Downtown Beirut
P.O.Box 11-1061 Riad El Solh Lebanon
Phone: +961 1 99 12 91 Fax: +961 1 99 15 91 Email: info@carnegie-mec.org