Nada Sardouk Ghandour
Personal information
Nada Sardouk Ghandour
Director General
Contact information (Work)
Ministry of Tourism
+961 1 340940
Work history
Previous Professions:
- Director General, 2002 - present, Ministry of Tourism.
- Pedagogic inspector, Central Audit Authority.
- Professor of French Language and Literature, Faculties of education, health and tourism of the Lebanese University.
- Advisor, Diploma of specialized studies, Faculty of Tourism, Lebanese University.
Major Achievements
Publications (Books, Articles, Reports, etc.):
- Sardouk, N. (2002, February). L’enseignement bilingue au Liban: Une tradition qui dure [Bilingual education in Lebanon: A tradition that lasts]. Le Français dans le monde, 319, 13-14.
- Sardouk, N. et al. (1999). Dire et lire. [Read and say]. Sin El-Fil: Centre national de recherche et de développement pédagogiques.
Major achievements:
- Attended a training course organized by Harvard - Kennedy School on the Middle East and changing circumstances, 2010.
- Participated in the program of study on the development of tourism projects, organized by the Japanese Organization for Cooperation (JICA) in Japan, in 2005
- Participated in global forums on tourism and economic development concepts as a speaker from Lebanon, notably in Italy (Forum on Tourism in the Mediterranean Area, 2002), Germany (German-Arab Tourism Forum, 2004), France (Forum de Paris, 2008), and United Arab Emirates (Dubai) (Middle East Tourism Marketing Summit, 2009).
- Organized many conferences and forums related to tourism, namely the Conference of Arab Ministers of Tourism in 2007 and a conference on tourism statistics systems (with the World Tourism Organization) in 2006.
- Attended the International Visitor Leadership Program administered by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, during the Conference on Arab Women Leaders in the United States of America, in 2004.
Accomplishments
Distinctions:
- Honorary trophy awarded by organizers of Horeca.
- Honorary trophy awarded by organizers of the The Arab World Travel and Tourism Exchange (AWTTE).
Competences & Skills
Field(s) of Expertise:
- Linguistics: Language Acquisition
- Education and Pedagogy
- Curriculum evaluation and Educational Systems
- Training of Trainers
- Tourism and Hospitality
Languages:
- Arabic
- French
- English