Professor Waleed Deeb is currently the academic advisor of the board of directors of the Arab American University in Palestine.
Professor Deeb is also the founding President and was the President of The Arab American University in Palestine (AAUP) from September 2000 until April 2005. The Arab American University is the first private university in Palestine.
He worked on this project for three years from 1997 till 2000, preparing the regulations, bylaws, academic plans and the system that will run the university.
with concentration on information technology fields, and is now considered one of the top universities in the area.
In addition to his role as University President, Professor Deeb also served as a member of; the council of the Palestinian Higher Education, the Palestinian Education Initiative Executive Board, The Accreditation and Quality Assurance For Higher Education Council and Al Quds Open University Board of Trustees.
He is an active member of the community, and in 1996 he established a center for children (6-17 years old) called the “Young Scientists Club” (YSC), a place where children feel encouraged to think, research and feel free to experiment. Under Professor Deeb’s leadership, YSC was so successful that there was demand by the community to expand it to different parts of the country. In less than four years, twenty YSC centers were established extending to every part of the country in Gaza and the West Bank.
Prior to that, Professor also helped establish Jordan University for Women in 1991, the first university for women in Jordan.
He started his career as a professor of Mathematics in several universities in different countries: University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia, State University of New York at Albany, Jordan University in Jordan, University of Kuwait in Kuwait, and University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Professor Deeb has received many awards for distinguished teaching and published over thirty papers in Mathematics.
Professor Deeb received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Albany.