Rami George Khouri is a Palestinian-Jordanian and US citizen whose family resides in Beirut and Nazareth. An internationally syndicated political columnist and book author, he is the first director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut. He also serves as a nonresident senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Harvard University and the Dubai School of Government. He is editor at large, and former executive editor, of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, and was awarded the Pax Christi International Peace Prize for 2006. 

He teaches or lectures annually at the American University of Beirut, University of Chicago and Northeastern University. He has been a fellow and visiting scholar at Harvard University, Mount Holyoke College, Syracuse University, The Fletcher School at Tufts University, Northeastern University and Stanford University, and is a member of the Brookings Institution Task Force on US Relations with the Islamic World.

He is a Fellow of the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (Arab East Jerusalem), and a member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard University Divinity School and the International Advisory Council of the Nieman Journalism Foundation at Harvard University.

He also serves on the Joint Advisory Board of the Northwestern University Journalism School in Doha, Qatar, and recently completed a four-year term on the International Advisory Council of the International Committee of the Red Cross. 

He was editor-in-chief of the Jordan Times for seven years and for 18 years was general manager of Al Kutba Publishers in Amman, Jordan, where he also served as a consultant to the Jordanian tourism ministry on biblical archaeological sites. He has hosted programs on archaeology, history and current public affairs on Jordan Television and Radio Jordan, and often comments on Mideast issues in the international media.

He has BA and MSc degrees respectively in political science and mass communications from Syracuse University.