Noha El-Mikawy is a Professor of Practice in the Public Policy and Administration Department and Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Prior to rejoining AUC, El-Mikawy served for 10 years as the regional director of the Ford Foundation for the Middle East and North Africa. Her tenure at Ford helped create university partnerships between the region and North and Central America, the UK, India, and South Africa, as well as helped provide institutional support to various universities and think tanks in the Arab region, including AUB, AUC, Cairo University and the Arab Council for Social Sciences. She previously worked with UNDP's Bureau of Development Policy and Regional Bureau of Arab States as the regional policy advisor, providing technical advice on governance programs of UNDP offices across the Arab region. In addition to being a policy practitioner, El-Mikawy's academic background includes research development and management at the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn, Germany, as well as teaching at UCLA, AUC, the Free University of Berlin and the University of Erlangen. She has published two books on Egypt with AUC press and several articles and book chapters on governance and institutional reform in Egypt and the Arab region, including with Oxford and Cambridge University Press. El-Mikawy is a Committee Member of the China-Arab Network for Schools of Public Policy and Administration (CANSPPA)

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in political science from The American University in Cairo.

• Master's degree in comparative politics and international relations from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

• PhD in comparative politics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Research interests:

Public Policy, Global Affairs, and Public Administration