Noha El-Mikawy

Noha El-Mikawy is Professor of Practice in the Public Policy and Administration and Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo (AUC). 

El-Mikawy served as Regional Director of the Ford Foundation for the Middle East and North Africa, where she created university partnerships between the region and North and Central America, the UK, India, and South Africa, and provided institutional support to regional civil society organizations, universities and think tanks, including AUB, AUC, and the Arab Council for Social Sciences. Prior to that she served as Regional Policy Advisor in UNDP’s Bureau of Development Policy and Regional Bureau of Arab States, providing technical advice on governance programs of UNDP across the Arab region. Prior to UNDP, El-Mikawy developed and managed research at the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn and taught at AUC, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. 

She is board member of SIPRI and Arab Reform Initiative, and advisory board member of Swedish Dialogue Institute, Asfari Civil Society Institute (Lebanon), RASD (Jordan), EqualMed-IEMed (Spain), and Governance Indicators Initiative of the World Bank.

She has published two books with AUC press, two book chapters on institutional reform in Egypt and the Arab region with Oxford and Cambridge University Press, and policy briefs at AUC. 

El-Mikawy holds an M.A. in comparative politics and international relations and a PhD in comparative politics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).