Jinan Khoury for senior regional legal post

Professor Jinan Khoury was appointed last week as the regional secretary general for the Middle East of the UN International Society of Social Defense and Humane Criminal Policy (ISSD). The organization is involved in shaping a modern structure for criminal policies on a reparative and reformist basis and creating fundamental and balanced changes to the prevailing penal systems and principles. Khoury, to recall is a professor of criminal law at the Lebanese University (LU)- Master Program, head of the Legal Department at the Juridical Information Center at the Faculty of Law, LU, international expert at ESCWA on cybercrime and cyber related legislations as well as lecturer at CERSA (Beirut Airport), Banque du Liban and the Finance Institute- Ministry of Finance. She is also a trainer at the Common Force for Surveillance of the Lebanese Border program, a cooperation initiative between the Ministry of Defense and the Danish Embassy. She published several studies and research on modern penal systems. To note, the board of directors of ISSD is formed of the president, vice president, assistant secretaries’ general and regional secretaries for North and Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. (Al Diyar, November 4, 2018)