Dr. Jihad S. Nader

Professor Nader is Provost and Chief Academic Officer of AUD. He was formerly Dean of the School of Business Administration, Dean of Executive Programs and Professional Services, and MBA Program Director at AUD. His academic and professional career spans over thirty years during which he was a Citibank officer, a faculty member, and an administrator at the American University of Beirut, the University of Toronto, Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, Concordia University in Montreal (Associate Dean), the Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Studies (Director of Studies), and AUD. Professor Nader has done consulting work for numerous academic and training institutions, business firms, professional bodies, and government agencies in North America, Europe and the Middle East.

His research on financial institutions and markets, corporate finance, pension plan design and liability valuation, real estate lease valuation, banking education, and other topics, is published in leading academic and professional journals. He is a member of the editorial boards boards of The Banking and Finance Review (USA), Logistics Information Management (UK) and The Journal of Developing Areas (USA). Claims, a leading risk management journal in the US, ranked Dr. Nader's book, The Manager's Concise Guide to Risk (Wiley Finance Series), among the "Top 10 Risk Management Books" published in 2002. Professor Nader is the recipient of several awards for excellence in teaching and research.