Albert Jamil Butros
Jordanian diplomat
Albert Jamil Butros (25 March 1934 – 31 August 2021) was a Jordanian diplomat and academic administrator who served as an ambassador and then Dean (education) of the University of Jordan.
Butros had a long and varied career in academia, diplomacy and politics, serving as Jordanian Ambassador to The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Iceland, as well as acting as special advisor to then Crown Prince Hassan bin-Talal of Jordan, and serving as a Professor of English at several universities in Jordan and the USA, and as a member of the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre.
Early life
Albert Butros was born to a Roman Catholic family in Jerusalem on 25 March 1934.
Academic career
Butros began his academic career in 1950, when he taught English language and Mathematics at Elementary and Secondary School in two Amman Private Schools.
In 1955, he was awarded a British Council Scholarship to England by the Jordan Ministry of Education, studying at Exeter University and the University of London, before completing his Doctorate at Columbia University, New York, through a Smith–Mundt Act Scholarship in the United States.
After completing his doctorate, he lectured English studies at the Hunter College, City University of New York. From 1962 to 1963 he instructed English at the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, before becoming Associate English Professor at the University of Jordan in 1965.
He went on to serve as a Professor, and Chairman of the Department of English at the University of Jordan, a role he held until 1976.
From 1967 to 1973 and from 1974 to 1976 he was Chairman of the Department of English at the University of Jordan. From July 19 to September 2, 1969 he enjoyed a Leaders' Grant to the United States.
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