Riyad al-Maliki

Riyad al-Malki is Minister of Information and Foreign Affairs in the Palestinian Authority. He was formally a lecturer in Bir Zeit University and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He is head of Panorama, a non-governmental organization. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the American universities. He worked at the engineering department at Beirzeit University in 1978 and he became Head of the Civil Engineering Department in the university. He is founder of Panorama Center since 1991. He got awarded the European Peace Prize in 2000 in Copenhagen and the Italian Peace Prize in 2005. He is the coordinator of the Arab Program to Support and Develop Democracy which is an alliance of more than 12 civil society institutions. Visiting professor in several European universities.