Husam Bajis Executive Director, Brazilian Palestinian National Interest Committee
Since December 2006, Husam Bajis (born September 15, 1976),
known simply as Sam, has served as Executive Director of the Brazilian Palestinian National Interest Committee (BPNIC). BPNIC’s directive is to bridge the gap between Palestinian nationals and the nation of Brazil by supporting programs that maintain relations between Brazil and the Palestinians. In the course of bridging social and economic gaps between the two nations, BPNIC looks to distribute grants to institutes in Brazil fostering education significant to a future Palestinian state and allocating additional funds to BPNIC’s training and capacity building initiatives and providing assistance to Palestinian nationals in Brazil.
Bajis provided consulting services in Information Systems in the United States
starting from 1999. Before starting an IT consulting company in 2005, Bajis also served as a consultant on promoting Palestinian self-determination through media outlets in the United States.
Born in Springfield in the State of Illinois, in the United States of America, Bajis
has also spent 10 years pursuing early education in Jerusalem at College des Freres and shadowing his
father who served on Yasser Arafat’s PLO National and International Relations
Department's special envoy team to the United States in the 1980’s.
Bajis's father was born in Lifta Jerusalem, and is an 8th generation
Jerusalemite from a family that descended from the Hebron region. His
mother was born in the village of Jish near Haifa, and is from the Ayoub family. Upon his return to the United States, he completed a bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University and master’s degree in
management information systems from the University of Illinois.
