HabibChamoun
- Theory and Simulation
Negotiations; Professional skills; Business development; Sales and marketing; Persuasion and conflict management
About
Over the past three decades, Habib Chamoun has been conducting negotiation and business development activities in diversified sectors, oil and gas, petroleum, petrochemical, chemical, industrial, commercial and institutional, for the sales and marketing of services and products.
Among the companies he worked for are ELF Aquitaine (Total), ICA Fluor Daniel, Brown and Root. Chamoun has trained thousands of business professionals on a Business Development Approach in sales, negotiation and conflict resolution.
Chamoun has been a guest speaker and instructor at universities: Thunderbird School of International Business in the GLOBAL MBA program, MBOC at the University of Texas, PANAM, University of Texas Dallas Cohort MBA program, and the University of Houston, and has participated as a professor at the Virtual University of the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico. The Autonomous University of Honduras, Business International School of San Pedro Sula and Catholic University of Guayaquil Ecuador are among the Central and Latin America Universities were he has taught negotiation.
He is the author of many articles on negotiation and the books: “Desarrollo de Negocios”, in its (3rd edition), “Trato Hecho-Guía para una Negociación sin Fallas”, (2nd edition), “Deal-Guidelines for a Flawless Negotiation” 2001-2014 (3rd Edition) and “Negotiate like a Phoenician” (2007).
Educational Qualifications
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemical Engineering, Elf-Aquitaine (Total), Pau, France (1990)
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (1988)
M.S., Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (1985)
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Monterrey Institute of Technology (1982)
Select Awards & Honors
- Cedar Award – Irish Lebanese Foundation, Ireland (2025)
- Part-Time Teaching Award – Texas A&M Kingsville (2025)
- Professor of the Month – Texas A&M Kingsville (2022)
- Nominee for the Saint Thomas Aquinas Excellence in Teaching Award – University of St. Thomas (2022)
- Leading Professor Award to Transform In-Person Teaching to Online Teaching – University of St. Thomas (2021)
- Best Professor – Cameron School of Business at the University of St. Thomas (2021)
- Honourable Consular Corps of Guayaquil Ecuador honorary member (2014)