A former student of Pepperdine University, where he earned his bachelor of arts in business, Jamal Daniel serves as chairman of Crest Investment Company. Additionally, Jamal Daniel founded and leads the Levant Foundation, a not-for-profit organization focused on enhancing the visibility and acceptance of the Levant region’s culture.
Between 2011 and 2014, the Levant Foundation partnered with Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service to create the Jamal Daniel Fund for the Study of the Levant. During its three years, the fund offered three scholarships to graduate students whose focus was on the Levant region. Further, it aimed to create a minimum of one postdoctoral fellow whose work centered around the study of Levant countries.
In addition to this work, the fund also allowed Georgetown to invite a visiting professor in 2011, who taught classes on the Levant region. This work was later assumed by the postdoctoral fellows that the fund helped to create.
