Discover the Networks | Bishara A. Bahbah
Former Board Chairman of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
Born in East Jerusalem, Bishara A. Bahbah earned a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University, and an MA and PhD from Harvard. He subsequently worked as: a visiting professor at Brigham Young from January to May of 1985; managing director of the Washington, DC-based United Palestinian Appeal, Inc. from 1985-87; associate director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Institute for Social & Economic Policy in the Middle East from 1990-96; and president/CEO of Television Development Partners from 1995-2000. Moreover, from April 2001 to January 2012 Bahbah was a senior investment-management consultant for the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney financial-services firm.
In the early 2000s, Bahbah chaired the board of trustees of the Global Relief Foundation, the International Islamic Relief Organization, and the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), a U.S.-based advocacy group with historical ties to the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. Bahbah described PCRF as an organization “dedicated … to helping the children victimized by war and violence,… children who were injured or maimed during the first Palestinian Intifada which erupted in December 1987.”
Discover the Networks | Bishara A. Bahbah
Former Board Chairman of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
Born in East Jerusalem, Bishara A. Bahbah earned a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University, and an MA and PhD from Harvard. He subsequently worked as: a visiting professor at Brigham Young from January to May of 1985; managing director of the Washington, DC-based United Palestinian Appeal, Inc. from 1985-87; associate director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Institute for Social & Economic Policy in the Middle East from 1990-96; and president/CEO of Television Development Partners from 1995-2000. Moreover, from April 2
001 to January 2012 Bahbah was a senior investment-management consultant for the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney financial-services firm.
In the early 2000s, Bahbah chaired the board of trustees of the Global Relief Foundation, the International Islamic Relief Organization, and the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), a U.S.-based advocacy group with historical ties to the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. Bahbah described PCRF as an organization “dedicated … to helping the children victimized by war and violence,… children who were injured or maimed during the first Palestinian Intifada which erupted in December 1987.”