Hassan B. Diab

Hassan B. Diab is the Minister of Education and High Education in Lebanon. He was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.

Professional Career

Diab is a chartered engineer in the UK Engineering Council, as well as a registered chartered professional engineer in the National Professional Engineers Register of Australia. He entered into academia and became a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Diab has written and published numerous works over the last 25 years of being in academia, and has written 120 publications for national and international journals. Furthermore, Diab has served as a member of over 50 organizations of international conferences, as well as an honorary member of the Advisory Board of several international biographical organizations. He has received the Fulbright Research Award in 1988 and the Young Arab Scientists Shuman Prize in Engineering in 1992. In 2001, he was a founding member of the First Arab Computer Society. He is also a founding member of the IEEE Student Branch at AUB.

Education

Diab received a B.Sc with Honors in Communications Engineering from the Leeds Metropolitan University in 1981. He then went on to receive a M.Sc with Distinction in Systems Engineering from the University of Surrey. Dr. Diab then received a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Bath.

Further information

The ICD Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy, "Education and Cultural Diplomacy", Berlin, December 13th - 16th 2012

An Interview with The Hon. Dr. Hassan B. Diab, The ICD Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin, December 13th - 16th 2012

External Links

Institute for Cultural Diplomacy