Ibrahim Awad

Ibrahim Awad is a political scientist and political economist. He is at present Professor of Global Affairs and Director, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, at the American University in Cairo.

He holds a BA degree in political science from Cairo University and a PhD degree in political science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has worked for the League of Arab States, the United Nations and the International Labour Organization, holding positions of Secretary of the Commission, UN-ESCWA, Director, ILO Sub-regional Office for North Africa and Director, ILO International Migration Programme. His research interests encompass international migration, employment, human and labour rights, development, politics and political transitions in the Middle East and North Africa, international relations, global governance and European integration.

His recent publications include “The Making and Unmaking of the 2012 Constitution in Egypt”, in North Africa: from Status Quo to (R)evolution, edited by Yahia Zoubir and Greg While (Routldge, 2015), “Labour Migration Governance in Times of Political Transition: A Comparative Analysis of Egypt and Tunisia”, Migration and Development. Published online on 30 September 2015, available at  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21632324.2015.1085671; “Population Movements in the Aftermath of the Arab Awakening: The Syrian Refugee Crisis between Regional Factors and State Interest,” in Migration in the Mediterranean (University of Malta 2014); “Breaking Out of Authoritarianism : 18 months of political transition in Egypt” (Constellations, 2013); International Migration in Africa (African Yearbook of International Law, 2008, Brill/Martinus Nijhoff, 2010.)