Secretary General, Director of Human Rights Center, BAU
Dr. Omar Houri is the current Secretary General of Beirut Arab University since his appointment in 2015. Dr. Houri also holds several other positions at BAU, namely the Director of the Human Rights Center since 2009 and an Associate Professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science. Dr. Houri received his undergraduate degree in Law from BAU in 1994. He is a member of the Lebanese Bar Association since 1995. He holds two LL.M.s, the first from Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, USA in 1996 and the second in Judicial Review from Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany in 2001. He earned a PhD in Constitutional Law in 2004 from Ludwig Maximillian’s University, Munich, Germany in 2004.