Philip S. Khoury (born October 15, 1949) is Ford International Professor of History and Vice Provost at MIT.
[1] He is also a trustee of the American University of Beirut and previously served as Chairman from July 2009 till June 2024.
[citation needed] From 1991-2006, Khoury served as Dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
He left the dean's office in 2006 to become Vice Provost responsible for overseeing MIT’s non-curricular arts programs and initiatives, including the MIT Museum and the List Visual Arts Center, strategic planning for international education and research, the promotion of the public understanding of science and technology, and the OpenCourseWare Publishing Initiative.
He also co-founded in 1986 and chaired until 2006, the John E. Burchard Scholars Program, MIT's undergraduate society of fellows in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.