Alam E. Hammad of Alexandria is an international business consultant and lecturer. His Board of Visitors assignments are the Faculty and Academic Standards, the Land Use and Physical Facilities, the Student Affairs, the EEO and Affirmative Action, and the Executive committees. He is also vice rector.

Hammad has held a number of positions with the government of the Sultanate of Oman: adviser in the ministry of state and governorate of Dhofar, the ministry of agriculture and fisheries, and the ministry of petroleum and minerals. He was chair of the foundation of the Oman National Fishing Company and the Bank of Agriculture Credit; he served on the board of directors and executive committee of Oman Development Bank. He is a founding member of the Sultan Qaboos University in Oman.

In Virginia, he was chairman of MicroAge Computers and president of the Information Security Foundation. He was also a visiting professor of strategic management at The George Washington University. Hammad is serving as a public policy expert with The Heritage Foundation, and a senior associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Washington, DC. In addition to numerous publications in the fields of banking, economic development, planning, construction, computers, artificial intelligence, robotics, and marketing systems, his most recent book is Encyclopedia of Computer Terms, English-Arabic.

An active civic leader, Hammad is a commissioner of the Alexandria Industrial Development Authority, a member of George Washington District Committee of Boy Scouts, and chairman of Alexandria Initiative of Scouting. He serves as national advisor of the New Majority Council. He is decorated with The Order of Sultan Qaboos by His Majesty Sultan of Oman. Hammad is listed in Who's Who in America, Finance and Industry, South and Southwest, and Who's Who in the World.

Hammad earned a master's degree from Louisiana State University and a doctor of business administration from The George Washington University.