Zaher Dawy

Provost of the American University of Beirut

Provost Dawy has been serving as AUB’s chief academic officer since 2021 and is responsible for advancing the university’s academic and research mission. He has broad oversight of the many dimensions of academic and campus life, including teaching and learning, scholarship and research, student and faculty affairs, assessment and continuous improvement, strategic initiatives, and outreach. Provost Dawy joined AUB in 2004 and is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (MSFEA). His research and teaching interests span the areas of wireless communications, internet of things, and biomedical engineering. He completed his undergraduate studies in engineering at AUB, after which he earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from the Technical University of Munich (TUM).