Mona Makram Ebeid

Biographical Information
"Dr. Mona Makram-Ebeid, has been a prominent Member of Parliament from 1990-1995, where she served on the Committees of Foreign Affairs, Education and the Budget, and was elected Regional President of Parliamentarians for Global Action, an NGO based in New York. From 1992-1995 she served as advisor to the World Bank MENA Region and is a consultant to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington).

"In May 2001, she was selected by the UN Secretary General as an expert on ECOSOC Committee For Development Policy.

"She is currently President of the Association for the Advancement of Education, a Cairo based NGO, a Trustee of the Arab Thought Forum in Jordan, a member of the UNDP Evaluation Team For Capacity 21 Sustainable Development, a Founding Member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, Asempro for the Protection of the Environment, a member of UNICEF's Committee on Women as well as several academic and research institutions. A graduate of Harvard University, the American University in Cairo (AUC) and Cairo University, Professor Makram-Ebeid teaches Political Science and Sociology at the AUC since 1983. "


 * Trustee, Egypt's International Economic Forum