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 Public Administration Reform in Egypt and former Chairman of the Suez Canal Industrial Zone. International consultant.
Elizabeth Knup
Representative of the Ford Foundation in China
Georges Abi Saab
Professor of International Law at the University of Geneva and Cairo University. Judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, former Chairman of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization.
Hoda Elsadda
Professor of literature and gender studies Cairo University. Head of the civil liberties drafting committee of the 2014 Egyptian Constitution.
Karim Al Aynaoui
Director of the Policy Center for the New South and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences in Morocco.
Lisa Anderson
Former President of the American University in Cairo and Prof. Emeritus of Global Affairs and Governance at Columbia University.
Magued Osman
Former Minister of Telecommunication in Egypt. Executive Director of Baseera Polling Agency and Lead Author of National UN Development Report, Egypt.
Martin Schulz
President of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and former Speaker of the European Parliament.
Marwan Muaasher
Former Foreign Minister in Jordan and Vice President of the Carnegie Endowment in Washington D.C.
Nabil Fahmy
Dean Emeritus and GAPP Founding Dean, and Former Foreign Minister of Egypt.
Vera Songwe
Nonresident Senior Fellow – Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative, and former Under Secretary General at the UN and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa.