Name: Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Ph.D.

Current Positions:

Visiting Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, Harvard University

Chairman of the Board, Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies

Secretary General of the Egyptian Independent Commission for Electoral Review (ICER); President of Cairo’s Union of Social Professions; Trustee of the Arab Thought Forum (Amman, Jordan); Member of the Club of Rome (Paris); Member of the World Bank’s Advisory Council for Environmentally Sustainable Development (Washington DC.); Advisor on Civil Society to UN Secretary General Kofi Anan; Member of the International Board of Minority Rights Group (London); Middle East International Forum (Terra Media); Transparency International’s Council on Governance; International Bureau for Children Rights’ Board of Directors; and Chairman of the Board of Egyptian Enlightenment Association.

Formerly:

As professor of sociology, taught at Cairo University; The American University of Cairo; The American University of Beirut; Indiana-Purdue University in Indianapolis, Indiana; DePauw University; University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA); and University of Washington.

Served as Board member of the Canadian Rights and Democracy Organization, Director of the Center for Arab Unity Studies in Cairo; Secretary General of the Arab Organization for Human Rights (Cairo); Founder and first Sec. General of the Arab Thought Forum (Amman, Jordan), Secretary General of the Arab Council of Childhood and Development; Master Juror of the Agha Khan Award of Islamic Architecture (Geneva); President of Al-Sabah Publishing House; Board Member and Head of Arab Affairs of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies.

Awards:

-    Herbert Pundik Freedom Award, Denmark, 2008
-    The annual award of Arab Organization for Human Rights for his pioneering role in supporting democracy, 2008
-    The Silver Olive Award for excellence in promoting democracy, 2007
-    The Shield Award, Arab Program for Human Rights Activists, 2004
-    International PEN Writers in Distress Award, September, 2002
-    International Human Rights Award, Lawyers Committee on Human Rights, 2002.
-    Index on Censorship, 2002 Whistleblower Award.
-    Prize for International Tolerance and Human Rights, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany, February, 2002.
-    Bette Bao Lord Prize for Writing in the Cause of Freedom, January, 2002.
-    Middle East Studies Association Academic Freedom Award, November, 2001.
-    Freedom House Award (1999).
-    The Jordanian Order of Independence (1990).
-    The Bahrain Merit Award of Educational Research (1988).
-    The Kuwait Award in Social and Economic Sciences (1985)

Media:

Appeared on major world TV networks (PBS, CNN, BBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, Orbit, al Jazeera, MBC); previously presented a weekly television program (Off the Limelight) on the main channel of Egyptian Television.

Education:

B.A. honors, Cairo University (1960);
Ph.D. University of Washington (1968)

Publications:

I. List of English Publications.

II. List of Arabic Publications.

III. Conference presentations, public lectures, and workshops.