Abu-Ghazaleh to deliver keynote speech at Columbia University on September 28

AMMAN — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh will visit New York to deliver a keynote speech at Columbia University on September  28, at the  invitation of the Columbia Arab Students Association, in coordination with Columbia Global Centres (CGC).

As announced on its website, CGC said Abu-Ghazaleh will talk “about his vision for building a knowledge-based Arab society by implementing a Marshall Plan of knowledge for the Arab world”.

“Abu-Ghazaleh is a prominent business leader and a visionary contributor to the socioeconomic development at the Arab world. He is the founder of the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Group, which operates out of more than 100 offices worldwide. He led numerous international and regional successful capacity-building initiatives over the past 45 years in the fields of education and scientific research, youth empowerment, wealth creation through information and communication technologies, intellectual property awareness and job creation opportunities,” according to CGC’s website.

Abu-Ghazaleh’s visit to Columbia University comes after similar ones to Harvard University and to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston last April. He will also visit Oxford University in early November, according to a statement from the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Group.