Fuad El-Hibri | |
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Born | Hildesheim, Germany |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Stanford University; Yale University |
Occupation | Chairman of the Board of Directors of Emergent BioSolutions |
Board member of | U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Yale Healthcare Conference; El-Hibri Charitable Foundation; International Biomedical Research Alliance; National Health Museum; Heifetz International Music Institute |
Awards | See Awards and recognition |
Fuad El-Hibri (born March 2, 1958) is a German-American businessman and philanthropist, and founder of Emergent BioSolutions.
Fuad El-Hibri was born in Hildesheim, Germany. He spent his childhood equally in Europe and the Middle East before coming to the United States to get an economics degree from Stanford and an MBA from Yale.
El-Hibri earned a Masters Degree in Public and Private Management from Yale University and a Bachelor's degree with Honors in Economics from Stanford University.
El-Hibri worked most of his career in the telecommunications industry. Between graduate school and working for BioPort and Emergent, he worked abroad, in countries including Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Venezuela and El Salvador.
El-Hibri served as president of Digicel from August 2000 to February 2005. He served as the president of East West Resources Corporation from September 1990 to January 2004.
He was a member of the senior management team of Speywood, LTD. in the United Kingdom and organized and directed the management buyout of Porton Products Ltd. El-Hibri reorganized Porton, and was advisor to the senior management team involved in the oversight of operations and served as a senior associate and resident project manager at Booz Allen Hamilton and as a manager of Citicorp in New York City (Mergers and Acquisitions), and in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (Operations and Credit).