Nayef H. Al-fayez is the current chair for the National Company for Tourism Development and has been working in Jordan government administration since November 2013. He previously served in Jordan as minister of tourism and antiquities, minister of environment, managing director of the Jordan Tourism Board, advisor and managing director of the Dead Sea Institute Project at the Jordan Prime Ministry, and assistant chief of royal protocol at the Royal Hashemite Court in Jordan. MA: international and area studies, 1994; BA: political science; minor: Near Eastern studies, 1992