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Fadi Ghandour
Founder & CEO, ARAMEX International


Wednesday, April 9, 2008
12:30 - 1:30 (Room C03)

School of Social Work - 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
(between 121st & Morningside Drive)

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Presentation

About the Presenter
Fadi Ghandour is Founder & CEO of Aramex International, a position he has held for the past 25 years. Aramex, one of the leading logistics & transportation companies in the Middle East and South Asia, was the first company from the Arab world to go public on the Nasdaq stock exchange. After five years of successful trading on it, Aramex returned to private ownership and, in June 2005, went public again on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM).
 
Ghandour is a Founding Partner in Maktoob.com, the world’s largest Arab On-Line community, is a member of the Board of Abraaj Capital, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business at the American University of Beirut. Between 2003 and 2005, he was the Middle East and North Africa Area Chairman of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).

Ghandour is actively involved with community and NGO work. He is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Jordan River Foundation, a major philanthropic organization which has supported important social development and social welfare programs. He is also Chairman of “National Microfinance Bank” in Jordan, and a founder of the newly formed “Ruwwad”, a region-wide corporate activism initiative.

Ghandour is married to Rula Atalla and has two sons, Bassel and Fares.

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