On 18th May, 2020, Miss Zeinab Abdallah was awarded the Doctorate Degree in Business Administration (DBA) by the Faculty of Business Administration at Beirut Arab University, on successful presentation of her final thesis entitled “Corporate Governance and Board Conflict Solution: The Case of Lebanese Family Healthcare Businesses”.

The Defense Examination Committee consisted of his supervisor Prof LuKas Scherer (Managing director of the Institute for Quality Management and Business Administration (IQB) at the FHS University of Applied Sciences St.Gallen, Switzerland), Prof Nehale Mostafa (Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at Beirut Arab University), Dr. Abdallah Nassereddine (Associate Prof of Economics at the Faculty of Business Administration at Beirut Arab University), Prof. Fadi Alameh (Member of Lebanese Parliament, President of Arab Hospitals Federation, Vice President of Syndicate of Hospitals and Chairman of Sahel Group), and Prof Ali Hejazi (Part-timer in Adnan Kassar School of Business at the Lebanese American University).