Manar Khaled Fayyad or Al Fayyad ( ar, منار خالد فياض) is a Jordanian chemist and former President of the

German Jordanian University German-Jordanian University (GJU) is a public university located near Madaba, Jordan. It offers more than 20 programs to over 6,000 students, primarily from Jordan and the Middle East. The curriculum differs from other Jordanian universities, wit ...

Biography

She has a B.Sc. (1972) and M.Sc. (1974) in chemistry from the

University of Jordan The University of Jordan ( ar, الجامعة الأردنية), often abbreviated UJ, is a public university located in Amman, Jordan. Founded in 1962 by royal decree, it is the largest and oldest institution of higher education in Jordan. ...

, and a Ph.D. (1978) in chemistry from the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine U ...

, where her doctoral thesis was ''Schwefel-Stickstoff- und Phosphor-Verbindungen als Liganden in Übergangsmetallkomplexen'' (''Sulfur-nitrogen and phosphorus compounds as ligands in transition metal complexes''). Her specialisation is in water management and the environment, and she has been involved in national and international projects funded by bodies including the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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and the German government. She was professor of analytical and inorganic chemistry at the University of Jordan from 1978 to 2013, and Director of its Water and Environment Research and Study Centre from 1999 to 2007 (deputy director 1992-1999). She then became vice-president of the German Jordanian University from 2013 to 2017 and was appointed president in 2017 till 2021

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