About me
Mohamed Fahmy Menza is the Senior Director of Executive Education at the School of Global Affairs & Public Policy (GAPP). He has more than 20 years of experience in the fields of socioeconomic research, development, and cross-cultural education, whereby he developed a plethora of multidisciplinary educational initiatives within Higher Education Institutions in the Arab world, the Global South, Europe and North America, using virtual exchange pedagogies. Menza previously served as the Director of Dialogue Courses and an Affiliate Assistant Professor at AUC’s Core Curriculum and as the founding Program Manager of the Institute of International Education’s (IIE’s) flagship virtual exchange initiatives, HIVE/HIVER. He holds a PhD in Arab & Islamic Studies, with a specialization in political economy and sociology, from the University of Exeter and his research and teaching focus on state/society relations, informal and patronage networks and the political economy of development, on which he has developed and taught a variety of courses at Exeter University, AMIDEAST Egypt and AUC. Menza also provided consultancies to a host of international development organizations such as the World Bank, UN-Habitat, the Population Council and CARE International and his academic contributions, which include a wide variety of action-research development studies, peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and the book Patronage Politics in Egypt, were quoted in world-class publications such as The Economist, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
