Nabil Bukhalid

Nabil Bukhalid

Lebanon Chapter

Biography

Nabil Bukhalid is the President of Internet Society Lebanon Chapter, an Internet evangelist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee.

Nabil is currently consulting in areas including Internet infrastructure and services, economic and social development utilizing technology, open data and the Internet, datacenters and cloud services, higher education networks, project management, Internet governance and intersection of Internet policy and technology. He has lead technology efforts focused on Internet infrastructure, governance and socio-economic impact.

Nabil has made significant contributions to the introduction and development of the Internet in Lebanon. He has served since 1993 as the .LB Administrator and Registrar.

Nabil is also the co-founder of the Lebanese Broadband Manifesto Support Group and BeirutIX. He is also a co-founder and president of the Internet Society Lebanon Chapter (ISOC-LB), co-founder and CEO of the Lebanese Internet Center (LINC), co-founder and vice-president of LebIX and advisory board member of the Lebanese Canadian Tech Hub.

He served for thirty years as the director of computing and networking services and chief enterprise architect at the American University of Beirut. Nabil attended AUB, where he earned both his BEE (1981) and EMBA (2006).