Our Board is composed of a full-time Chairman and four full-time Board Members. Their five-year term of office is both non-renewable and non-extendable. The Chairman and members of the Board cannot have any direct or indirect interest with any entity that provides telecommunications services or equipment.

Kamal SHEHADI	Imad Y. HOBALLAH	Mahassen AJAM	Patrick EID

Kamal SHEHADI, PhD
Chairman and CEO
Prior to his appointment Dr. Shehadi was Managing Director of Connexus Consulting, a leading consultancy firm in the Middle East and North Africa specializing in telecom policy, regulation, and strategy. Dr, Shehadi has also served as a consultant to several international organizations and telecommunications companies since 1996 including the World Bank and the European Commission. He has also advised governments, operators and regulatory authorities on telecom regulation and licensing in countries like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Libya, and Lebanon. He has served on the board of a number of organizations, most recently the Lebanese Transparency Association and the Lebanese Businessmen Association (RDCL).

Dr. Shehadi has a B.A with honors from Harvard University in economics and a PhD from Columbia University (New York) in international political economy. He is the author of a number of publications on privatization, public finance, and foreign investment.

Email: kamal.shehadi@tra.gov.lb

Imad Y. HOBALLAH, PhD
Commissioner, Board Member, and Head of Telecommunications Technologies Unit
Prior to his appointment Dr. Hoballah was the Chief Executive Officer of Omnix Media Networks.  Previously, Dr. Hoballah held a number of executive positions at Lucent Technologies and AT&T Bell Laboratories gaining extensive experience in the field. These include appointments as Executive Sales Director (Africa & Levant), Chief Operating Officer (COO) , Executive Vice President for Services & Program Management, MEA Region. He also held the positions of Services and Software Sales & Product Management, and Information, Operation, & Data Networking Systems Director, Saudi Arabia at Lucent Technologies. Dr. Hoballah was also Senior Manager, Operations Systems, and Operations Systems Architecture Group & Data Services Product Management at, AT&T Bell Laboratories. 

Dr. Hoballah currently serves as a Vice Chairman of the Arab Spectrum Management Group (ASMG) and, as such, has been actively involved in the group’s work to coordinate issues related to Spectrum Management, World Radiocommunications Conferences and other matters concerning coordination between Arab States in the spectrum management field.

Dr. Hoballah has a noteworthy academic record. He received a diploma from the Program for Executive Development from IMD Lausanne (Switzerland, 2000), a Master’s certificate in project management from George Washington University (Washington DC, 1997), an Executive Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University (New York, 1994), a Ph.D. in EE/Communications from Syracuse University (NY, 1986), and MS in electrical engineering from Syracuse University (NY, 1982), as well as a B.S in chemistry from the Lebanese University (Lebanon 1979).

Email: imad.hoballah@tra.gov.lb

Mahassen AJAM
Commissioner, Board Member, and Head of Information and Consumer Affairs Unit
Prior to her appointment Mrs. Ajam had an outstanding record as data and internet executive for IDM and GDS with wide experience in business development as well as international relations.

Mrs. Ajam recently served as a Board Member of the Professional Computer Association and, as such, has been actively involved in the sector policy and regulatory affairs. Mrs. Ajam holds an MBA from Ecole Superieure des Affaires (ESA, Beirut), a Masters in urban planning (Paris I, Sorbonne) and a degree in engineering from the Lebanese University.

Email: mahassen.ajam@tra.gov.lb

Patrick EID
Commissioner, Board Member, and Head of Market and Competition Unit
Prior to his appointment Mr. Eid was working as senior technical consultant for Segenius, a major consulting company for telecom operators in the MENA region.

Mr. Eid has also held the position of Chief Technical Officer for the Lebanese mobile operator FTML- Cellis, a France Telecom affiliate. He also worked for IBM Lebanon as Manager of X25 activity mainly for the banking and corporate sector. Mr. Eid has an engineering degree in Telematics from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France, 1989).

 Email: patrick.eid@tra.gov.lb