Adnan El Amine is a former president of the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies (LAES). He was among its founders in 1995 and served as its president for nine years.

He also initiated the idea of founding the Arab Educational Information Network (Shamaa) and was one of its founders as an Arab NGO in 2010.

Dr. El Amine graduated from the Lebanese University in 1971 and obtained his doctorate in Sociology of Education from the Sorbonne University-Paris in 1977.
He obtained as well a “Doctorat d’État” in the humanities from the Sorbonne in 1991.

He was full professor at the Lebanese University until 2008. Dr. El Amine is the author of 21 books and 38 papers and chapters published in Lebanese, Arab and international journals and books.