He is a former member of the United States Council onthe Business Development Committee of the U.S.- South Africa BinationalCommission and the Board of Directors of the Corporate Council on Africa inWashington, D.C. He is also a former member of the Board of Directors of theWorld Trade Council of the Greater Houston Partnership.In 2003, Lawal established a $1 million endowment at Texas Southern Universityto establish the Kase and Eileen Lawal Center for Global Trade at Jesse H JonesSchool of Business. In 1992, he established a petroleum engineering endowment atthe University of Houston’s Cullen College of Engineering to benefit graduatepetroleum engineering students. Lawal serves as the director of the CullenEngineering Research Foundation and as a trustee for The Kinkaid School, whichis a leading college preparatory school. He also co-chairs Unite for Children,United Against AIDS, a $300-million-dollar UNICEF campaign with his wife EileenLawal.Lawal is a graduate of Texas Southern University with a bachelor’s degree inchemistry and later obtained a master’s degree in business administration,finance and marketing from Prairie View A&M University of Texas.
He was awardedhonorary doctorates in from Fort Valley State University and Texas SouthernUniversity.The Port of Houston Authority owns and operates the public facilities locatedalong the Port of Houston, the 25-mile-long complex of diversified public andprivate facilities designed for handling general cargo, containers, grain andother dry bulk materials, project and heavy lift cargo, and other types ofcargo. Each year, there are more than 8,000 vessel calls at the port, whichranks first in the U.S. in foreign waterborne tonnage and second in overalltotal tonnage. The port authority plays a vital role in ensuring navigationalsafety along the Houston Ship Channel, which has been instrumental in Houston’sdevelopment as a center of international trade.
The Barbours Cut ContainerTerminal and Central Maintenance Facility are the first of any U.S. portfacilities to develop and implement an innovative Environmental ManagementSystem that meets the rigorous standards of ISO 14001. The secondrecertification of those facilities in 2009 included an extension for thestate-of-the-art Bayport Container Terminal. PHA is the first port authority inthe world to receive ISO 28000:2007 certification for Port Police and theperimeter security operations at both the Barbours Cut and Bayport Terminals.Additionally, the port is an approved delivery point for Coffee “C” futurescontracts traded on the New York Board of Trade’s Coffee, Sugar & CocoaExchange. For more information, please visit access the port’s Web site photo gallery, please visit http:// and click thelink for PHA Photo Gallery.The Port of Houston Authority logo is available at http:// of Houston AuthorityLisa Whitlock, Communications Manager(713) 670-2644 Cell: Argentina M.