Linda K. Jacobs

Dr. Jacobs has been involved with development work in the Middle East for 30 years as a scholar, business executive and nonprofit administrator. She has served on the boards of several nonprofits as well as a Fortune 500 engineering company, worked in the private sector with the East-West Group, founded a small consulting firm, and previously served as NEF’s Chief Development Officer and President. Dr. Jacobs holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern archaeology. She is the author of Digging In: An American Archaeologist Uncovers the Real Iran. Currently, Dr. Jacobs is writing a social geography of the nineteenth century Syrian Colony in New York City. Dr. Jacobs also serves on the Board of Trustees of the American University of Beirut.