AREC Welcomes New Director of Financial Services Ruba Abukhdeir

August 21, 2018

As of Monday, August 6, Ruba Abukhdeir has joined the staff within the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics as the new director of financial services.

Abukhdeir graduated with an MBA from the Joseph A. Sellinger S.J. School of Business & Management at Loyola University, Maryland in 2008, as well as a Bachelor of Science in structural civil engineering from the Jordan University of Science and Technology. Following her education, Abukhdeir worked in the Research Resources Center of the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Prior to joining the University of Maryland community, Abukhdeir served as a financial business partner for the High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory, overseeing a $20 million budget.

We are so excited to see all of the work Abukhdeir accomplishes here with AREC!