Prof. Hanna-El-Daher on the Jury of a Ph.D. Dissertation Defense at Université de Montpellier I

Ambassador Samira Hanna-El-Daher, who teaches the course on Foreign Policy Formulation and Diplomacy at AGS, was invited to be a member of the jury of a Ph.D. in Political Science dissertation defense at Université de Montpellier I in France on November 26.

The Ph.D. dissertation was on the following topic: "The Founding of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lebanon under Béchara el-Khoury's Presidency (1943-1952); the Institutionalisation of the Foreign Policy and its Limitations." (La Fondation du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères du Liban sous la Présidence de Béchara el-Khoury (1943-1952); l'Institutionalisation de la Politique Etrangère et ses Limites). It was authored Carmen Hassoun Abou Jaoudé under the advisorship of Professor Jacques Aben, Director of Higher Education at Ecole de l'Air, the French Military School training Airforce officers. In addition to Professors Hanna-El-Daher and Aben, other members of the jury included Mustapha Adib, professor at the Lebanese University, Paul Allies, Professor at Université de Montpellier I, and Louis Balmond, Professor at Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis in France.

Ambassador Hanna-El-Daher is a member of the AGS faculty along with her position as Representative of Lebanon to the Executive Board of UNESCO. She is a career diplomat who was the first woman in Lebanon to be named Ambassador, and the first woman worldwide to be an Ambassador in Japan. She also served as Head of Mission in China, Australia, and Great Britain, Ambassador to the Philippines, Switzerland, and Cyprus, as well as Consul General in New York and Legal Advisor of the Lebanese Permanent Mission to the United Nations.