The LAU-MEPI
Leaders for Democracy Fellowship
Arabic Program

Dr. Josiane Fahed Sreih

Dr. Josiane Fahed-Sreih is a full time Associate Professor of Management in the School of Business at the Lebanese American University.  She is the founder and currently the Director of the Institute of Family and Entrepreneurial Business at the Lebanese American University. She holds a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne University and is a fellow member of the Family Firm Institute, USA. She holds the responsibility of the Middle East Coordinator for the Family Firm Institute, USA. She is a Family Wealth and a Family Business Consultant. She is the winner of the 2007 International Award from the Family Firm Institute in the US, in recognition for outstanding achievement in furthering the understanding of family business issues that occur between two or more countries.  She participated and organized international conferences, workshops and seminars.  She has presented in major conferences locally and internationally and consulted on management issues in many countries and specially the Middle East:  Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Bahrain, Qatar, France and Lebanon. She currently sits on four boards of directors as a shareholder, one as a Chairman of the board, and one as an independent advisor in the private sector; she is also involved as an advisor on boards of community service organizations. She speaks regularly to trade and professional groups, and presents her research in academic conferences worldwide. Her research interests are in Management, Family Business Management, Boards of Directors functioning and Corporate Governance.  She published in 2004 her book in the US on “Facts and Figures concerning Family Business in Lebanon” and contributed to many compendiums on Family Business Management in the Middle East in articles, chapters in books, book reviews, and academic articles in Internationally Refereed Journals.