Dr. Zaher Sahloul is Chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago. Dr. Sahloul served at different levels in governing many local nonprofit religious, civic, professional and medical organizations.

Dr. Sahloul is active at the interfaith level with Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian and Jewish faith groups. He serves on the National Advisory Board of the Bernadin Center of the Catholic Theological Union, and on the Board of Advisers of the Center of Christian-Muslim Engagement for Peace and Justice at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.

At the Professional level, Dr. Sahloul is a physician at Advocate Christ Medical Center. He is a founder of the Syrian American Medical Society, Midwest chapter and its foundation.

He has written articles about Muslims and civic life, mosques, leadership, environment, civic engagement and activism from an Islamic perspective. He is married with three children.