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Dr. Karim Sabbagh is a senior partner with Booz & Company, and the global practice leader for Communications, Media and Technology.
Overall, he has 25 years of strategy and operation experience acquired through various projects in the Middle East, Europe and North America. Dr. Sabbagh has managed a number of economic and business development assignments in telecommunications and media primarily in the context of sector level development strategies, institutional and regulatory reforms, large-scale privatization programs, and strategy-based transformations focused on strategic planning, partnerships and alliances, international investments, marketing, and business process re-design.
Dr. Sabbagh is a member of the Board of Directors for SES S.A. He is a visiting professor in technology management and member of the Academic Council for the School of International Management at Écoles des Ponts ParisTech (Grandes Ecoles) in France. Dr. Sabbagh also serves on the Advisory Council for the Global Information Technology Report by the World Economic Forum, and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Regional Agenda Council on the Middle East & North Africa. He is a member of the advisory council of the School of Business Administration of the American University in Dubai. Dr. Sabbagh is the chairman of the Ideation Center that serves as the Booz & Company think-tank in the Middle East.
Dr. Sabbagh holds a Ph.D. with honors in strategic management from Century University in the U.S., and both an MBA in finance and a BBA with distinction in marketing from the American University of Beirut.