Dr.Sultan Abu Orabi, is an organic chemist, who obtained his P.hD from the University of Michigan, USA in 1982.

Currently he is the Secretary General of the Association of Arab Universities since 2011, which has its headquarters in Amman, Jordan.

Prof.Abu Orabi previously served as President of different Universities: Irbid National University (2001-2005), Tafila Technical University in Jordan (2005-2009), Yarmouk University (2009-2011), Jordan’s second largest public university.

He was also President of the Jordanian Chemical Society and President of the Arab Union of Chemists. He was a visiting Professor at Bahrain University (1989-1990) and at King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia (1990-1993 & 1996-1998).

Dr. Abu Orabi is an Editor-in-chief of many international journals, and is a member of many editorial boards.

He has as well organized, served on advisory boards, and presented lectures at hundreds international conferences.

He has also received several research fellowships and awards, and published over eighty papers throughout his career spanning thirty five years. Supervised and served on examining dissertations for more than seventy M.Sc and Ph.D students in Jordan, Arab World, India and Europe.