User:Tawfic

Tawfic E. Farah of Carlsbad, California, USA is currently a resident of Dubai, United Arab emirates where he is the Executive Director of Diamonds and Color Stones at the Dubai Multi commodities Center. He joined

Maxwell Harrison Nixon and Sorenson, a management consulting firm of La Jolla, California after completing his doctoral work in Political Economy at the University of Nebraska in August 1985. He was senior partner and later managing partner specializing in the political economy of natural resources and sustainable development.

He moved to the Gemological Institute of America in 2000 where he worked in the office of the Vice President and General Counsel specializing in external affairs.

Mr. Farah serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors of Inter Ed, a non profit California corporation which specializes in scholar and student exchange.

He is a former Fulbright Scholar and has taught at the University of California in Los Angeles and the University of Phoenix.

He is married to Linda Maxwell and he has a son Omar Lee and a daughter Aliya Jane.