
H.E. Dr. Ghassan Salamé
Minister of Culture in Lebanon
H.E. Dr. Ghassan Salamé is the Minister of Culture in Lebanon.
H.E. Dr. Ghassan Salamé was the dean of the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and Professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po, Paris and Columbia University, New York.
H.E. Dr. Salamé was Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General (2003-2006) and Political Advisor to the UN Mission in Iraq (2003). In 2000-2003, he was Lebanon’s Minister of Culture, as well as Chairman and Spokesman of the Organization Committee for the Arab Summit (March 2002) and of the Francophone Summit (October 2002) in Beirut.
H.E. Dr. Salamé is the author of (inter alia) Quand l’Amérique refait le monde; Appels d'empire: ingérences et résistances à l'âge de la mondialisation; State and Society in the Arab Levant and editor (inter alia) of Democracy Without Democrats: Politics of Liberalization in the Arab and Muslim World; The Politics of Arab Integration and The Foundations of the Arab State. H.E. essays have been published in Foreign Policy, Revue française de science politique, European Journal of International Affairs, The Middle East Journal and other scholarly journals.
An intellectual widely admired on all continents, H.E. Dr. Salamé is one of the most respected actors and observers of international affairs and conflict resolution of the past three decades.
H.E. Dr. Salamé studied Law (Saint Joseph University, University of Paris); Literature (PhD, University of Paris); and Political science (PhD, University of Paris). He taught international relations at the American University of Beirut and Saint-Joseph in Beirut and, later, at Paris University.