Ghassan Salameh Born in 1951 in Lebanon.
Ghassan Salamé has a PhD in Literature and a PhD in Politics at Paris I University, a master’s degree in Lebanese and French law, and a number of qualifications in the arts.
Career:
Ghassan Salamé taught international relations at the American University of Beirut and Saint Joseph University in Beirut and, later, at the University of Paris. He was also Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General (2003–2006) and Political Advisor to the UN Mission in Iraq (2003).
In 2000-2003, he was Lebanon’s Minister of Culture, as well as Chairman and Spokesman of the Organization Committee for the Arab Summit (March 2002) and of the Francophone Summit (October 2002) in Beirut.
Ghassan Salamé is currently professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po (Paris) and the founding Dean of its Paris School of International Affairs – PSIA.
He is presently Vice-Chairman of the Board of the International Crisis Group (Brussels) and sits on the board of the Open Society Institute (New York), the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a few other not-for-profit organizations. He is the founding chairman of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (Beirut).
Ghassan Salamé is the author of (inter alia) Quand l’Amérique refait le monde; Appels d’empire: ingérences et résistances à l’âge de la mondialisation; State and Society in the Arab Levant, and editor (inter alia) of Democracy Without Democrats: Politics of Liberalization in the Arab and Muslim World; The Politics of Arab Integration and The Foundations of the Arab State. His essays have been published in Foreign Policy, Revue française de science politique, European Journal of International Affairs, The Middle East Journal and other scholarly journals.
Selected Public Speeches and Articles:
– Les raisons des révoltes arabes. Le Monde, 8 février 2011.
– Ghassan Salamé, poisson pilote des élites émergentes : l’ancien conseiller spécial de Kofi Annan, alors secrétaire général de l’ONU, dirige aujourd’hui la nouvelle Paris School of International Affairs de Sciences-Po. La Croix, October 21, 2010.
– Discours à l’ambassade du Qatar à Paris. Cérémonie honorant Hubert Védrine et Ghassan Salamé, September 22, 2010.
– Middle Easts, old and new, presented at the Oil and Money Conference, London, October 21, 2009.
– A Clash of Norms, speech at the UN General Assembly on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, New York, December 10, 2008.
He was given the Phenix (Beirut), ADELFI (Paris) and Al-Idrissi (Rome, 2012) awards, and the Medaille of the Academie Francaise (2003), made Chevalier de la Legion d’honneur (France, 2004) and named ‘The Arab Cultural Personality of the Year’ (UAE, 2004).
Memberships and Affiliations:
– Chairman, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
– Co-Chair of the International Crisis Group
– Board Member, International Peace Institute
– Board Member, Open Society Foundations
– Board Member, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
– Board Member, Arab Anti-Corruption Organization
– Board Member, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
– Co-founder of The Euro-Mediterranean Chair, The European University Institute, Florence, Italy