Forum Agenda and Participant Biographies - Brookings Institution

coordinator of the pilot study on Classification of
Higher Education Institutions in Arab countries. He
was also a Founder and a member of the board of trustees
of the Arab Educational Information Network. El-
Amine was a Fulbright Scholar at Boston College and
earned his Ph.D. from Sorbonne-Paris, with a focus on
the sociology of education and education foundations.
Mona El-Baradei
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Mona El-Baradei is a Professor of
Economics and former Dean of
the Faculty of Economics and Political
Science at Cairo University.
El-Baradei was previously Executive
Director of the Egyptian National
Competitiveness Council. She has served as a
consultant for a number of organizations including
the Social Fund for Development, UNDP, UNICEF,
and the Ministry of Economic Development. She
authored and co-authored a vast number of publications
and research papers in the fields of economic
development, human resources development, energy
economics, and the economics of education. She is
a board member of a number of private and public
institutions. Mona El-Baradei earned her B.A., M.A.,
and Ph.D. from the Faculty of Economics and Political
Science of Cairo University.
Khaled Elgindy
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Khaled Elgindy is a Visiting Fellow
with the Saban Center for Middle
East Policy at Brookings. Before
arriving at Brookings, Elgindy
served for more than five years as
an advisor to the Palestinian leadership
in Ramallah on permanent status negotiations
with Israel, and was a key participant in the Annapolis
negotiations throughout 2008. Prior to his work on
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Elgindy spent many
years in various political and policy-related positions
in Washington, DC, including with the U.S Commission
on International Religious Freedom and the
House International Relations Committee. He also
held positions with the Arab American Institute and
the National Democratic Institute for International
Affairs. Elgindy holds an M.A. degree in Arab Studies
from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Political
Science from Indiana University.
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Keith Ellison
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Keith Ellison is the representative
for the Fifth Congressional
District of Minnesota in the U.S.
House of Representatives. His
roots as a community activist and
his passion for inclusivity in the
democratic process shape his four core values: the
promotion of peace, prosperity for working families,
environmental sustainability, and civil and human
rights. Working with members of the Congressional
Progressive Caucus, which he now co-chairs, he
helped shape health care and Wall Street reform, raise
the federal minimum wage, and start the process to
end the Iraq war. He currently serves on the Financial
Services Committee and previously served on the
Judiciary Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee.
A member of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor
Party, Ellison served two terms in the Minnesota State
House of Representatives and graduated from Wayne
State University and the University of Minnesota Law
School.
Emad El Maghraby
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Emad El Maghraby is Regional
Professional Learning Manager at
Johnson & Johnson’s Middle East
office and serves as an Adjunct Professor
of Marketing and Management
at the American University in
Dubai. He is an international speaker in the fields of
healthcare marketing, management, cultural diversity,
and capacity building. El Maghraby has led major nonprofit
initiatives in the Middle East, focusing on philanthropy
and capacity building for youth and Muslim
religious leaders. He is currently authoring a dissertation
on “Cultural Diversity Management for Western
Leaders in the Middle East” as part of doctoral studies
in Business Administration. He received his B.Sc.
in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Cairo University, and
his M.B.A., with an emphasis on International Business
and Globalization, from the Maastricht School of Management
in the Netherlands.