Presenters

Dr. Rima Karami -Akkary is an Associate Professor of Educational Administration, Policy and Leadership in the Department of Education at the American University of Beirut. She is also the program advisor for the Educational Management and Leadership program. She is currently the chairperson of the Department of Education at the American University of Beirut (AUB).She holds a Bachelor in Science, Diploma for teaching science at the secondary level, Master of Arts in Science Education from the American University of Beirut (AUB), and a Doctorate in Education from Portland State University with a specialty in [K-12] Educational Administration and Supervision with a focus on school principalship, organizational change and educational policy.She is the director and the principal investigator of the TAMAM project launched in 2007 as a grant funded by the Arab Thought Foundation at AUB to initiate school-based reform and research on how to build leadership skills for sustainable schools. The project has partners in 72 schools in 9 Arab countries. TAMAM was one of the recipients of the 2021-2022 UNESCO-HAMDAN prize for teacher development.Dr. Karami Akkary has published in international and local journals, and she also has an extensive experience advising and consulting public and private schools in Lebanon and the Arab region. She currently serves as the chairperson of the executive committee of the Arab Information Educational Network (Shamaa); a member of the executive committee of Taawon Association; and the coordinator for the education initiative in Khaddit Beirut.