Zouheir Chokr is the President of the Lebanese University

Lebanese University

The Lebanese University is the only public institution for higher learning in Lebanon. Founded in 1951, it has 17 faculties as of 2006 and serves various cultural, religious, and social groups of students and teachers....

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Early career

Chokr was born in Bednayel in 1947. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III (France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

). After teaching with the Lebanese University, Chokr worked as a Lebanese Ambassador in Qatar

Qatar

Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its...

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Medals

Palmes académiques

Palmes académiques

The Ordre des Palmes Académiques is an Order of Chivalry of France for academics and cultural and educational figures...

 - Officier - France 1993.

Wissam El Istihqaq al Watani - Qatar -1998.