Rami Khouri is a political columnist and author, and is the first director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut. He also serves as a non-resident senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Harvard University and the Dubai School of Government. He is editor at large, and former executive editor, of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper.
Rami teaches or lectures annually at the American University of Beirut, University of Chicago and Northeastern University. He has been a fellow and visiting scholar at Harvard University, Mount Holyoke College, Syracuse University, The Fletcher School at Tufts University, Northeastern University and Stanford University, and is a member of the Brookings Institution Task Force on US Relations with the Islamic World. He was a visiting scholar at Stanford University in 2006.
Rami was editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times for seven years and for 18 years was general manager of Al Kutba, Publishers, in Amman, Jordan, where he also served as a consultant to the Jordanian tourism ministry on archaeological sites. He has hosted programs on archaeology, history and current public affairs on Jordan Television and Radio Jordan.
He is a Fellow of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (Arab East Jerusalem), and a member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard University Divinity School and the International Advisory Council of the Nieman Journalism Foundation at Harvard University. He also serves on the Joint Advisory Board of the Northwestern University Journalism School in Doha, Qatar, and recently completed a four-year term on the International Advisory Council of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
His work has been published in leading international publications, including the Financial Times, the Boston Globe and the Washington Post. Rami regularly talks to corporations and governments all over the world on aspects of the Middle East and often comments on Middle Eastern issues for the BBC, CNN, and Al-Jazeera International, and other leading international media. In 2006, he was the co-recipient of the Pax Christi International Peace Award for his efforts to bring peace and reconciliation to the Middle East.