Dean Vali Nasr cordially invite you to

“Is There a Path to Democracy in the Arab World”

with Dr. Salam Fayyad

Former Prime Minister, Palestinian National Authority

moderated by

Vali Nasr, Dean, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Dr. Salam Fayyad is an economist and former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (June 2007-June 2013). Dr. Fayyad held several teaching and research positions, including as a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, before joining the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1987 to 2001, where his tenure included serving as IMF resident representative in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from 1996 to 2001. He then served as the Arab Bank’s regional manager in Palestine, and, in June 2002, he was named Minister of Finance of the Palestinian National Authority. Until he resigned in December 2005, Dr. Fayyad served in that capacity on several cabinets, introducing in the process extensive financial reforms. In March 2007, he was appointed again as Minister of Finance in a national unity government, and in June 2007, he was appointed Prime Minister, a position he held until he stepped down in June 2013.

In 2010, Dr. Fayyad was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world list. He was also named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2010 and 2011. In August 2013, he founded “Future for Palestine”, a non-profit development foundation. In 2014, he took part in the IMF External Advisory Group on review of Fund policy, and he served as Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Middle East and North Africa. Currently, Dr. Fayyad is a Visiting Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a Distinguished Statesman at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security.

This event will be on the record and open to the media.

For disability accommodations, please contact event organizer at saisevents@jhu.edu

Is There a Path to Democracy in the Arab World?