Shair, Kamal

Kamal A Shair, one of the most prominent business entrepreneurs of the Middle East, is Chairman of Dar Al-Handasah, the international engineering consultants and architects, which he has built in the last 50 years. Dr Shair was educated at the American University of Beirut, the University of Michigan and Yale University, where he received his PhD. He has been a close observer of the Middle East in the past half century. He served as a senator in Jordan's Upper House of Parliament for 12 years and is currently a trustee of the American University of Beirut.