Advisory Council
The council is comprised of experts in and outside the academic field to paint a full picture of the school and give genuine advice and recommendations to better GAPP. The council assists the school in applying its vision and mission, setting a path to enhance the school’s image nationally as well as internationally, thus making the school, its students and its alumni more competitive on a global scale.
Ahmed Darwish
Former Minister of State for Administration Development and Former Chairman of the Suez Canal Industrial Zone
Elizabeth Knup
Regional Director of the Ford Foundation in China
Georges Abi Saab
Honorary Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva
Hoda Elsadda
Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University, and Co-founder of the Women and Memory Forum
Karim Al Aynaoui
Executive President of the Policy Center for the New South; Executive Vice-President of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University and Dean of its Social Sciences, Economics and Humanities Cluster
Lisa Anderson
Former President of the American University in Cairo and Special Lecturer and James T. Shotwell Prof. Emerita at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
Magued Osman
CEO and Director of the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research "Baseera" and Former Minister of Communication and Information Technology and former Chairman of the Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC, Prime Minister's Office, Egypt)
Martin Schulz
President of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Marwan Muaasher
Former Foreign Minister of Jordan and Vice President for studies at the Carnegie Endowment
Nabil Fahmy
Dean Emeritus and Founding Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and Former Foreign Minister of Egypt and Chairman of LYNX Strategic Advisors
Vera Songwe
Nonresident senior fellow in the Africa Growth Initiative at the Brookings Institution and Chair of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility