ESAF Voice from the Field: From Tennessee to Jerusalem: Investing in the Future

This brief report is about Professor Mahmoud Haddad, who is participating in a faculty exchange with Al Quds University, sponsored by USAID’s ESAF program in Palestine.  He was born in the West Bank but has lived and worked in the US for 40 years, the last 20 of which he has spent as a Professor of Finance at the University of Tennessee.

In December 2009, Dr. Haddad started the ESAF exchange program administered by the William Davidson Institute, returning to the Middle East to work at Al Quds University in Abu Dis, East Jerusalem to improve the quality of finance professionals.