Dima Jamali

She received a bachelor of arts degree from the American University of Beirut, an master of arts degree from San Jose State University in the United States, and a PhD in Social Policy and Administration from The University of Kent in the United Kingdom.[5]

In 2002, she returned to AUB as a faculty member, progressing from Assistant Professor to full-time Professor, Endowed Chair, and the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Business.[5]

In 2018, she decided to take a break from academia to work in politics, with which she was familiar since her father Rashid Jamali was the mayor of Tripoli.[6][5] She became a Member of Parliament, when PM Saad El Hariri approached her to run with him for the 2018 Parliament Elections for the Future Movement.[6][1]

She explained that she would like to continue her work in academia but shared how, as a politician and MP, returning to the position of a full-time professor would be difficult, stating that she would try to continue contributing to the educational sector, especially with her prominent position at AUB.[5]

In 2020, she put her position in the Lebanese Parliament on hold, in response to the August 4 Beirut port blast, saying that she regretfully realized that her work in politics was not producing the desired result, and took a position of Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates.[7]

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