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DEAN and CEO

Marwan M. Kraidy

Marwan M. Kraidy is a scholar of global communication and an authority on Arab media, culture, and politics. An award-winning author and Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Kraidy’s research centers around the relationship between culture and geopolitics, theories of identity and modernity, and global media systems and industries. He is also an expert on the Middle East and fluent in Arabic.

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Joint Advisory Board

Kathleen Hagerty

Provost, Northwestern University

HIS EXCELLENCY DR. HAMAD BIN ABDULAZIZ AL-KUWARI

Qatar State Minister with rank of Deputy Prime Minister

HIS EXCELLENCY HASSAN ABDULLAH AL THAWADI

Secretary General, Supreme Committee on Legacy and Delivery

CRAIG JOHNSON

Executive Vice President for Northwestern University

AHMAD M. HASNAH

President, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation

YASER BISHR

Executive Director of Digital, Al Jazeera Media Network

RAMI G. KHOURI

Professor of journalism, American University of Beirut; non-resident senior fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

FRANCISCO MARMOLEJO

Higher Education President at Qatar Foundation

STEPHANIE MILLS GRAHAM

Vice President and General Counsel, Northwestern University

MARWAN M. KRAIDY

Dean and Chief Executive Officer, Northwestern University in Qatar 

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