Maha Kaddoura has been a member of the board of trustees of Tufts University since 1993, and helped to establish a course for Middle East Studies there. Mrs. Kaddoura is also a member of the board of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She is a member of the Welfare Association for Palestine and the Arab Thinkers Organization. Mrs. Kaddoura founded the Kaddoura Foundation to help mothers who are head of households in Camp Ain El-Halawa in Lebanon, and to help students from medical schools volunteer in refugee camps.

After moving to the United States in 1994, Mrs. Kaddoura graduated from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2000 with a Master of Public Administration. She is a member of the Dean's Committee of the Kennedy School of Government, and in 2000 helped to establish a program called 'Strengthening the Palestinian Authority.'

Mrs. Kaddoura was born in Lebanon. She earned her bachelor?s degree in 1974 at American University in Beirut. During the civil war in Lebanon she lived in Paris. There, she founded 'Le Prix Francais du Monde Arab,' a prize for an Arab writer or poet who writes in French about the Arab world. Mrs. Kaddoura lives in Monaco and has three children.