Dr Noha El-Mikawy

Dr Noha El-Mikawy is the Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo. She is the former Regional Director of the Ford Foundation Office of the Middle East and North Africa (2012–22). El-Mikawy served as Team Leader for Governance at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Center between 2005–2007 and 2009–12, supporting governance in Egypt, Jordan, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, and Yemen. She was the Policy Advisor at the UNDP Oslo Governance Center in Norway (2007–2009), supervising the UNDP’s global project on governance assessments, legal empowerment of the poor, and gender-sensitive service delivery. She led comparative research on the political economy of MENA at the Centre for Development Research at the University of Bonn (Germany) in 2000–2005 and lectured on politics of the Middle East in Egypt and Germany (1991–2000). El-Mikawy holds a BA from the American University in Cairo and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.