Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel has become the first Saudi and the first Arab to be elected to the governing body of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Jameel's appointment and membership to the MIT governing body, which is a board of trustees known as the Corporation, is effective July 1. The MIT Corporation elected nine term members and three life members at its quarterly meeting held last June. Jameel has become the first Arab to be elected to the Board of Trustees of this world-class educational institution, which has since its inception in 1865 generated 73 Nobel Prize winners, according to a report published today by Arab News. MIT aims to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the US and the world at large in the 21st century. Jameel received his BS in civil engineering from MIT in 1978. He is the president of Abdul Latif Jameel Co. Ltd., which was founded by his father in 1945, and the president of Abdul Latif Jameel Community Services Programs.
