Noha El-Mikawy
Dean, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, American University in Cairo

• David D. Arnold, president of the Asia Foundation
• Lakhdar Brahimi, former under-secretary general of the United Nations and former United Nations and Arab League special envoy to Syria
• Prince Turki Al-Faisal, chairman of the board of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies and former Saudi ambassador to the United States and to the United Kingdom
• Hassan Heikal, former CEO of EFG Hermes
• Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute
• Rami G. Khouri, founding director and senior policy fellow of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut
• Daniel C. Kurtzer, professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel
• Marwan Muasher, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former deputy prime minister of Jordan
• Lubna S. Olayan, CEO of Olayan Financing Co.
• David B. Ottaway, senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
• Thomas R. Pickering, vice chairman of Hills & Company and former U.S. under secretary of state for political affairs
• Naguib Sawiris, CEO of Orascom Telecom Holding SAE
• Mark Suzman, president of Global Policy, Advocacy, and Country Programs, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Mervat Tallawy, chairwoman of the National Council for Women – Egypt, former under-secretary general of the United Nations, and former Egyptian ambassador to Japan and Austria

Advisory Group
School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

• Hussein Amin, director, Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism
• Ibrahim Awad, director, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies
• Ghada Barsoum, chair, Department of Public Policy and Administration, GAPP
• Rasha Allam, chair, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Shahjahan Bhuiyan, associate dean for administration and undergraduate studies, GAPP
• Naila Hamdy, associate dean of graduate studies and research, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Noura Wahby, director, Middle East Studies Program
• Martina Rieker, director, Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies
• Mark Deets, director of Prince AlWaleed Bin Talal Bin AbdulAziz AlSaud Center for American Studies
• Thomas Skouteris, chair, Department of Law