Antoine Zahlan

Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Antoine Zahlan is a former professor and chairman of the Physics Department at the American University of Beirut and former director of the Royal Scientific Society, Amman, Jordan. He initiated the Arab Project and Development Institute in Lebanon and is a founding member of other Arab institutions such as the Arab Physical Society and the Center for Arab Unity Studies. He has published extensively on a broad range of topics from agricultural and educational policies to manpower planning and institution-building.