Birth: NULL/NULL/1960 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
born in Jerusalem on 7 Jan. 1960; received a BA in Business Administration from Birzeit University in 1983; worked as Coordinator and Lecturer at the Dept. of Business Administration at the Ibrahimieh Community College in Jerusalem from 1984-89; continued his studies and earned an MA in Higher Education Leadership from the University of Columbia, South Carolina, in 1991; returned and became Dean of the Ibrahimieh Community College, serving in that post from 1991-94; worked as Chief of Cabinet at the Palestinian Ministry of Finance in 1995; joined the UNDP/Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (PAPP) in 1996; received an Associate Degree in cross-sector partnerships, University of Cambridge, UK 2003; currently works as Head of the Governance and Public Sector Unit at the UNDP/PAPP; manager of the UN Volunteer (UNV) Program and the Program on Transfer of Knowledge Through Expatriate Nationals (TOKTEN), which has brought almost 500 expatriate Palestinian professionals to Palestine since 1994; was invited to assist in establishing similar TOKTEN programs in Lebanon, Syria, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Somalia, and Iraq; is in charge of the UN Volunteer Palestinian Program since 2000; has co-authored Guidebook to Volunteerism in Palestine in 2003; led the team that conceived, produced and published the book Palestine: A Guide (Interlink Books, 2005).
