{"id":2316,"date":"2017-09-27T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T14:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2017-10-09T00:10:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T04:10:03","slug":"safwan-m-masri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/safwan-m-masri\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Safwan M. Masri \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside id=\"sidebar-content\" class=\"profile-sidebar col-sm-4 col-md-4 col-lg-4 col-sm-push-8\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-cu-title-department field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"phone-and-email\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2318 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/files\/2017\/09\/Safwan-Masri-web-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/files\/2017\/09\/Safwan-Masri-web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/files\/2017\/09\/Safwan-Masri-web-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/files\/2017\/09\/Safwan-Masri-web-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/files\/2017\/09\/Safwan-Masri-web.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"phone-and-email\">Professor Safwan M. Masri is Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University. In this role, he directs a number of Columbia\u2019s global initiatives and is responsible for the development of an expanding network of Global Centers, located in Amman, Beijing, Istanbul, Mumbai, Nairobi, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, and Tunis. These centers work to advance Columbia\u2019s global mission and extend the University\u2019s reach to address the pressing demands of our global society.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/aside>\n<article id=\"main-article\" class=\"cu-faculty-profile full profile-node clearfix col-sm-8 col-md-8 col-lg-8 col-sm-pull-4\" role=\"article\">\n<div id=\"profile-content\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-10 col-lg-10 with-article-social-container\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-cu-profile-information field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field--items\">\n<div class=\"field--item\">\n<section class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--text-with-label paragraph--view-mode--default\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-cu-wysiwyg field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item\">\n<p>Masri holds a senior research scholar appointment at Columbia\u2019s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He joined the faculty of Columbia Business School in 1988 and was appointed Vice Dean in 1993, a position he held for thirteen years. He previously taught engineering at Stanford University, and was a visiting professor at INSEAD (<em>Institut Europ\u00e9en d\u2019Administration des Affaires<\/em>) in France.<\/p>\n<p>A scholar on education and contemporary geopolitics and society in the Arab world, Masri\u2019s work focuses on understanding the historic, postcolonial dynamics among religion, education, society, and politics. He is the author of\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/cup.columbia.edu\/book\/tunisia\/9780231179508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Columbia University Press, 2017), which examines why Tunisia was the only country to emerge from the Arab Spring as a democracy. Masri\u2019s writings on education and current affairs have been featured in the\u00a0<em>Financial Times<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Huffington Post<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Times Higher Education<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Masri is an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association. He was founding chairman of both King\u2019s Academy and Queen Rania Teacher Academy in Jordan, and served as an advisor to Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah. He is a trustee of International College in Beirut and of the Welfare Association (Taawon) in Ramallah, and a member of the advisory board of the School of Business at the American University in Cairo. Masri has served on the governing boards of Endeavor Jordan, the Children\u2019s Museum Jordan, Arab Bankers Association of North America (ABANA), and Aramex.<\/p>\n<p>Masri earned his Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University in 1982; his Master of Science in industrial engineering, also from Purdue, in 1984; and his Ph.D. in industrial engineering and engineering management from Stanford University in 1988. He was honored with Columbia\u2019s Singhvi Professor of the Year for Scholarship in the Classroom Award in 1990, the Robert W. Lear Service Award in 1998, and the Dean\u2019s Award for Teaching Excellence in a Core Course in 2000. Masri has also been honored with the 2003 American Service Award from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Safwan M. Masri is Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University. In this role, he directs a number of Columbia\u2019s global initiatives and is responsible for the development of an expanding network of Global&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/safwan-m-masri\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1872,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38949],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests-3-13"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1872"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/uprising1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}