The Prime Minister Lecture
Professor Salam Fayyad
Prime Minister of The Palestinian National Authority (2007-2013)
“In conversation with Salam Fayyad”
Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor (Director, MESC)
Sir Vincent Fean (Trustee, The Balfour Project Charity; MESC)
Sir Tom Phillips (MESC)
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Salam Fayyad
Visiting Senior Scholar and Lecturer
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Princeton University
Office: 218 Bendheim
609-258-6761
Date of Birth: April 12, 1952 (Nablus, Palestine)
Higher Education: Bachelor of Science, American University of Beirut (1975)
MBA, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas (1980)
Ph.D. (Economics), The University of Texas at Austin (1986)
Previous Positions:
Assistant Professor, Yarmuk University, Jordan (1986-1987)
Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Assistant to Executive Director, Advisor to Executive Director, Resident Representative, and Senior Resident Representative, International Monetary Fund (1987-2002)
General Manager, Arab Bank (Palestine, 2002)
Minister of Finance, Palestinian National Authority (2002-2005)
Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and Chairman of its Budget Committee (2006)
Prime Minister, Palestinian National Authority (2007-2013)
Honors and Affiliations:
Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Texas at Austin (2010)
Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for the MENA Region (2014)
Distinguished Statesman, Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft’s Center on International Security (2014)
Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2017)
Distinguished Fellow, Brookings Institution (2018)
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