"Why Middle Eastern and American leaders are failing the challenges of our time"
… and what the academic and policy research community can do to help them

with

Ashraf Hegazy
Executive Director, The Dubai Initiative, Belfer Center, Harvard University

Date: Wednesday June 23, 2010
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 pm
Location: Conference Room 314, College Hall, AUB

Short Bio:

Ashraf Hegazy graduated from Harvard College in 1996 with a psychology degree focused on leadership traits. Having worked in the financial sector for five years, he founded his own consulting firm, providing end-to-end business and technology services to the not-for-profit sector, with a focus on Arab-American community and political organizations. In 2001, he co-founded the Harvard Arab Alumni Association to build an active network of Arab leaders educated at Harvard. In 2009, he returned to Harvard and earned his Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School, where he was awarded a Lucius N. Littauer Fellowship and a Presidential Management Fellowship. His research interests lie in the fields of adaptive leadership and negotiation frameworks in the Middle East.