Dr. Grace Khoury

Keynote Speaker, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at Birzeit University, Palestine.

Dr. Grace Khoury is the dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at Birzeit University. She is a professor of strategic management and has been the director of MBA program at Birzeit University in Palestine 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, students’ career advisor, researcher, management trainer and consultant at private and public organizations. She holds an MBA from Suffolk University, USA, and PhD in human resource management from Bradford University, UK. She served as a university council member, an academic council member and several university and community committees including the board of directors of the National Bank/ Palestine and the board of trustees of Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS). She obtained certificates in project management and customer relationship management. She has published a number of management case studies and research articles in reputable academic journals and participated in international conferences. She is co-editor of a case book titled Rising to the Digital Challenge: Lessons from Mediterranean Enterprises (2005). She is co-author of “The Palestinian Executive: Leadership under Challenging Conditions”, Routledge, 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) in which she is a co-author of two chapters. Dr. Khoury is a reviewer for a number of 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.