Dr. Grace Khoury

The dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at Birzeit University for two terms.  She is a professor of management and has been the director of the MBA program at Birzeit University for six years and chaired the department of business administration.  She is an adjunct visiting professor at Florida State University. She has over thirty years of experience as a university professor, administrator, student career advisor, researcher, management trainer, and consultant at private and public organizations. She served as a university council member, an academic council member, and on a number of university and community committees including the board of directors of the National Bank/Palestine. She is co-editor of a case book titled Rising to the Digital Challenge: Lessons from Mediterranean Enterprises (2005). She is a co-author of “The Palestinian Executive: Leadership under Challenging Conditions”, Gower, UK (2012). She is also a co-editor of a book titled “Cases on Management and Organizational Behavior in an Arab Context”, IGI, USA (2014). She holds an MBA from Suffolk University, USA, and a PhD in Human Resource Management from Bradford University, UK. Dr. Khoury is a reviewer for several management journals and a member of the editorial board of The Learning Organization, Emerald. Her research interests include entrepreneurship and employment, leadership, organizational behavior, and management She obtained certificates in project management and customer relationship management. She has published a number of management case studies and research articles in several academic journals and participated in international conferences.