Dr. Yousif Asfour is an accomplished executive with over 30 years of experience across the education, healthcare, technology, and finance sectors. He has held leadership roles in both established institutions and startup ventures in the U.S. and the Middle East.
Currently serving as Chief Innovation and Transformation Officer at the American University of Beirut, Dr. Asfour leads the Office of Information Technology, the Talal and Madiha Zein AUB Innovation Park, and the AUB Online business unit.
He sits on the boards of several startups and has held prominent positions including President of the CIO Lebanon Association, founding CIO at NYU Abu Dhabi, and key contributor to the establishment of TechCARE (Lebanon’s National Research and Education Network) and HPC4L (the country’s High Performance Computing center).
Dr. Asfour holds a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University. In addition to publishing in professional journals, he is also the holder of a U.S. patent related to fast data transfer for multiprocessor systems.