Secretary

Anis Leon Garabet
Los Angeles, California

Anis Garabet was born on May 5, 1952 in Beirut Lebanon and is the son of Leon and Margaret Garabet. In 1972 they migrated to the United States of America. First stop was Brooklyn, New York and in 1979 they moved and settled in Los Angeles, California.

In 1978 Mr. Garabet earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and in 1980 terminated the graduate program towards the Master’s Degree in Seismology from the University of Southern California (USC). In 1982, he also earned the Professional Engineering license from the State of California. In 1979, he joined the staff of NASA’s space shuttle program working for Rockwell International. He received an award from Columbia’s first mission astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen for successfully testing the Thermal Protection System for the space shuttle.
In 1983, Anis Garabet married Leila Tohme who is originally from Rachaya Elwadi, Lebanon. They have three beautiful children: two daughters, Margaret and Pauline and a son, Jonathan. He speaks five languages, loves to write Lebanese poetry and he is a pianist who is very much influenced by Feyruz and the Rahbani brothers.

Mr. Garabet comes from a family of jewelers, he is known as a diamond dealer and loves to design jewelry. in 1984, he founded the Golden Pacific Jewelry after earning a degree in gemology from the Gemological Institute of America( GIA).

In January 1973, he joined the World Lebanese Cultural Union (WLCU) in New York City and in 2002, he served for two years on the Board of Directors at the Lebanese American Foundation, House of Lebanon in Los Angeles. In May 2005 he was elected the World President of WLCU in Sydney, Australia. He successfully applied for the WLCU to become an NGO at the United Nations. He received numerous awards from WLCU affiliated institutions in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil , Mexico, Great Britain, Australia and South Africa. In November 2006 he joined the Lebanese American Renaissance Partnership (LARP) based in Washington, DC.