Dr. Tarek Mitri is the director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He has a distinguished record of public service, having served successive governments in Lebanon between 2005 and 2011 as Minister of Environment, Minister of Administrative Reform, Minister of Culture, Minister of Information, and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Mitri also served as Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya from 2012 to 2014.