ADMINISTRATION
David Carr
Director of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
Carr received a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo and a Master's of Science in Information Technology degree from Northwestern University. Carr began his career as a network engineer and then manager of network engineering at the University at Buffalo. He then moved on to work within consulting arm of UB Networks, providing professional services to customers, specifically in regard to network security. Carr has most recently served Northwestern as the Director of Telecommunication and Network Services where he was responsible for the design, engineering and management of Northwestern's voice, data and video communications infrastructures, as well as connectivity to the campus research partners. Additionally, Carr has served on a variety of state and regional network consortia in New York and Illinois.
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Keith J. Downham
Chief Financial Officer
Keith earned an MBA in finance and strategy from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Keith’s professional career has included positions both in and out of Higher Education, including serving as a management and operations consultant to many of the largest research universities and academic medical centers in the United States as well as Northwestern’s Assistant Director for Research Integrity where he designed the University’s research administration training program. Outside of Higher Education, Keith served as a management consultant to some of the world’s largest corporations as well as a strategic advisor for United Airlines.
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Susan Dun
Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs
Dun is Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs at Northwestern University in Qatar. Dun received her doctorate in Speech Communication from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include message design, politeness theory, and interpersonal communication in organizational settings, with particular focus on the relationship between communicator goals and message features. Prior to joining NU-Q, Dun served as Assistant Dean for Advising and Student Affairs in the School of Communication on the Evanston campus, where she worked with undergraduates on all aspects of their academic careers including major planning, course selection, study abroad, changing majors and other related undergraduate concerns.
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Robert W. Ferrin
Director of Marketing
Ferrin earned his BA in Government/International Relations from the University of Notre Dame and MBA from the American Graduate School of International Business, Thunderbird Campus, in Arizona. Based in New York, he worked in brand management for over twelve years at three of the largest consumer packaged goods corporations in the world. After moving to Boston to join an advertising agency, he was hired by Brandeis University to develop marketing programs to increase the number of applications. In addition to his marketing responsibilities, he was an associate director of admissions with his own recruiting territory. He moved to Chicago after five years at Brandeis and joined the Northwestern Alumni Association as Marketing Strategist, where he worked on programs to strengthen the relationship between the University and its graduates.
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Timothy J. Fournier
Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration and Chief Operating Officer
Fournier earned his doctorate in Higher Education Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management,and his bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After working in broadcast television and video production, Fournier served as a management and operations consultant to many of the largest research universities and academic medical centers in the United States, He has served as Institutional Compliance Officer for the University of Pennsylvania and its health system and as Northwestern's first Associate Vice President for Research Integrity. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Forum on Conflict of Interest in Academe.
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John D. Margolis
Dean and Chief Executive Officer
A Professor of English on the Evanston campus, Margolis received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Margolis has served on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) and was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, where he was affiliated with Trinity College. A specialist in nineteenth and twentieth century British and American literature, he is the author and editor of several books including T. S. Eliot’s Intellectual Development and Joseph Wood Krutch: A Writer’s Life. At the invitation of the governments of Thailand and Bangladesh he has served as a consultant issues relating to higher education. Prior to assuming the leadership of NU-Q, Margolis served as Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs on Northwestern’s Evanston campus.
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Mounir A. Ouanaimi
Director of Admissions
Ouanaimi earned a Master’s degree in Education with academic focus in Applied Linguistics and TEFL from M.V. University School of Education in Morocco and a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature. Ouanaimi’s professional career started with multiple teaching appointments in higher and private education institutions such as the Higher Institute of Applied Engineering in Casablanca and The Higher Institute of Applied Technology in Rabat. He also managed EST training projects for institutions such as the Moroccan Nuclear Center (CNESTEN) and the Royal Center for Remote Sensing and Space Studies (CRTS). Ouanaimi also taught Arabic for one year at Idaho State University where he was a visiting Fulbright Scholar. He then worked for The Institute of International Education as a Program Manager and for Georgetown University SFS-Qatar as an Admissions Officer.
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Richard J. Roth
Senior Associate Dean for the Journalism Program
As a reporter in Buffalo (NY), Roth earned a 1972 Pulitzer Prize nomination for his coverage of the bloody 1971 riot at Attica prison, where he was one of two newspaper reporters inside the prison yard, he has served as editor in chief of the newspaper at Terre Haute, IN, and he was a guest editor in the early days of The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, now called wsj.com. Roth has taught at DePauw University and has been a member of the Medill faculty since 1998. Roth has served as an officer of The Newspaper Guild; president of the Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors association; adviser to the U.S. Project for Excellence in Journalism; and a director of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has lectured on journalism issues in the US and abroad.
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Hesham Toulan
Manager of Production Facilities
Hesham received a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Alexandria University and a post graduate diploma in electrical engineering from Concordia University in Montreal. starting his career in Broadcasting with CBS news video as a lab helper then continuing in that field for 17 years working for Film, News and TV production houses as ART, ERTU, Abu Dhabi TV and Dubai Media Zone covering production engineering, facilities, News and TV production, System design and project management. Recently Hesham served at Aljazeera English News channel as a lead broadcast engineer overseeing system performance and managing existing and new system designs through to completion, commissioning, testing and training.
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Gillian Westera
Library Director
Westera received her Masters of Applied Science from Curtin University in Western Australia, and has worked in libraries for more than 20 years. She also has a Postgraduate Diploma in Information Management, a Graduate Diploma in Information and Library Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in English. Westera has worked in the Middle East for nearly three years as Supervisor, Learning Centre and Educational Technology at Dubai Men's College, Higher Colleges of Technology. She is a member of the Information Literacy Network of the Gulf Region. Previous to this, she worked at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia as Learning Services Librarian, managing
reference and information literacy services for the University. Westera also served on ANZIIL (the Australian and New Zealand Institute for Information Literacy) and was very active in ALIA (the Australian Library & Information Association) serving on a number of committees.
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Mimi White
Senior Associate Dean for the Communication Program
White, who received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, is a Professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film in the School of Communication where she has served as Chair of that department and as Director of the Gender Studies Program (Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences) on the Evanston campus. More recently she has been the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in the School of Communication. Her research and teaching focus on film and television culture , with primary emphasis on American media. Publications include Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse in American Television, Media Knowledge (co-author), and Questions of Method in Cultural Studies (co-editor), as well as essays in journals and books published in the U.S., England, Finland, China, and Italy. In 2004-05 she held the Bicentennial Fulbright Chair in North American Studies at the University of Helsinki (Finland ).
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