International Board

Samer Khoury

Samer Said Khoury was born in Beirut, Lebanon on 23rd August 1960 to a Palestinian family that came to Lebanon during the 1948 Israeli-Arab war.

Samer spent his childhood between Kuwait and Lebanon, where he received his high school diploma in 1977 from the American High School in Kuwait.

He studied at California State University from 1978 to 1981 when he received his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering and went on to obtain an MBA in 1984 from the University of Southern California.

Following this, Samer returned to the Arabian Gulf and worked his way up the ranks of his father’s engineering and construction company – Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) – which is one of the largest Arab international construction companies operating throughout the Middle East, Africa, CIS, Europe and America.

From 1987 through 1990, Samer was responsible for the total operations of CCC in Kuwait, with an average turnover of 50$M/year and more than 1,000 permanent staff.

In 1990, Samer moved to the Head Office of CCC in Athens, Greece. He worked in various departments gaining a wide range of experience in the Engineering & Construction field. In 1997, he took over the position of Executive Vice President Operations of the Group being responsible for the marketing and execution of the Group’s worldwide activities.

CCC today is a large conglomerate with a broad range of activities ranging from its traditional engineering & construction role to the more extensive (innovative) role of an oil & gas and power developer. More than 120,000 individuals are employed worldwide and, according to the ENR listing, CCC ranks 17th amongst the largest international contractors. CCC’s revenue in 2008 is in excess of 5 Billion US Dollars.

Samer is highly involved in business, social and educational activities in the Middle East and Europe. He is also a Board and Committee Member of the following Associations:

  • Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC), Greece
  • National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), UAE
  • CCC Underwater, UAE
  • Sicon Oil & Gas, Italy
  • International Pipeline Offshore Contractors Association (IPLOCA), Belgium
  • CCC Oil & Gas, Lebanon
  • Palestinian Investment Fund (PIF), Palestine
  • Palestine Electric Company (PEC), Palestine
  • Solomon Pools Project, Palestine
  • Gaza International Hospital, Palestine
  • Bethlehem Cardiology Hospital, Palestine
  • Friends of Jerusalem, Palestine
  • M.A.S. (Economic Policy Research Institute), Palestine
  • Welfare Association, Geneva/Palestine
  • Governor (Engineers & Contractors) World Economic Forum , Geneva
  • The Arab Business Council World Economic Forum, Geneva
  • Lebanese American University, Lebanon
  • Education of Children, Jordan
  • OneVoice Movement, USA
  • Peace Works Foundation, USA
  • Tufts University, USA
  • Aspen Middle East Strategy Group, USA
  • Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, USA
  • Education for Employment Foundation, USA
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA

Samer has been married to Rania Khoury since 1989 and has two sons Saji, born in 1991, and Rayan born in 1993.



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If the purpose of President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel was to dispel the view held by most Israelis, and by rightwing American Jewish supporters of AIPAC and the Likud’s annexationist policies, that he is hostile to Israel and to the Zionist enterprise, it must be judged a brilliant success. Not everyone was converted, but his words and personal charm seemed to have worked wonders on most Israelis.
While his visit was not expected to revive prospects for a two-state solution, he spoke far more directly and energetically about the need for an end to Israel’s occupation and about his own continuing efforts to help the parties achieve an agreement than his recent disengagement from the peace process prepared anyone for. But nothing he said in Jerusalem or Ramallah–and, more importantly, that he failed to say–justifies an expectation that his reengagement will be of a kind that has any chance of preventing Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government from finally nailing down the coffin in which they are burying a viable two-state outcome.

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