Independent Director
Dr. Daboub has been a Director since September 2020. Dr. Daboub is the founding Chief Executive Officer of the Global Adaptation Institute (“GAIN”), a non-profit organization whose mission is to help private and public sectors prioritize climate adaptation, which since 2013 has been operated within the University of Notre Dame’s Environmental Change Initiative. Dr. Daboub served as GAIN’s Chief Executive Officer from 2010 to 2013 and has served on its Board of Directors since 2010. Dr. Daboub served as Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum Council on Climate Change from 2012 to 2014 and since 2013 has served as a Panel Member of the Innovation for Change Initiative of the United Nations Secretariat on Climate Change. In 2010, Dr. Daboub founded, and since then has served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of, the Daboub Partnership of Arcis, LLC, which provides advisory services regarding the implementation of public policies for countries around the world in sectors such as energy, agriculture, macroeconomics and fiscal responsibility. From 2006 to 2010, Dr. Daboub served as one of two Managing Directors of the World Bank Group based in Washington, DC. As Managing Director, Dr. Daboub reported directly to the President of the World Bank and oversaw operations in 110 countries in Africa, the Middle East, East Asia and Latin America. At the World Bank, Dr. Daboub worked with European countries, including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, on issues related to governance and anti-corruption among various nation states and was responsible for the oversight of the World Bank’s Human Development Network, the Information Systems Group, the World Bank Institute, the Department of Institutional Integrity and the Arab World Initiative. At the World Bank, Dr. Daboub was also responsible for the oversight of its Sustainable Development Network, which partners with countries to develop and invest in energy, water, agriculture and food and became a key player in developing the millennium development goals for the United Nations. From 1999 to 2004, Dr. Daboub served as the Minister of Finance and Chief-of-Staff to the President of El Salvador. As Minister of Finance, Dr. Daboub helped to navigate his native country through several regional economic challenges including securing and sustaining El Salvador’s investment grade rating, “dollarizing” the economy and completing a Free Trade Agreement with the United States. During this period, he also oversaw the emergency reconstruction of El Salvador after two major earthquakes in 2001. Prior to 2004, Dr. Daboub held high government positions in El Salvador for 12 years where, among other things, he was responsible for restructuring and privatizing through a competitive and transparent process El Salvador’s state-owned telecommunications company. Dr. Daboub has served as Vice Chairman of US-based Dorado Partners LLC since 2014, which provides development and asset management services primarily to the energy and infrastructure sectors. Dr. Daboub served as an independent member of the Board of Directors of iCore Networks, a US-based unified messaging company, from 2013 until its sale to Vonage Holdings in 2015. Since 2014, Dr. Daboub has served as an independent member of the Board of Directors of Grupo Financiero Ficohsa, SA and certain of its subsidiaries, which is a Panama-based banking and financial services company. Dr. Daboub also served as an independent member of the Board of Directors of deNovo Corporate Advisors, a financial advisory firm based in Dubai, from 2013 through 2019. During 2010, Dr. Daboub served as a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Graduate School, where he taught a course relating to developing countries. Dr. Daboub holds a Bachelor’s of Science, Masters of Science and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University.