Ibrahim Awad

Professor of Practice, and Director, Center for Migration and Refugee Studies

The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt

Ibrahim Awad 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 Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has worked for the League of Arab States, the United Nations and the International Labour Organization, where he held the position of Director, ILO Sub-regional Office for North Africa, and of International Migration at the ILO Headquarters. He is Chair of the Steering Committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Research Network on International Migration (EuroMedMig) and Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre (MPC) of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. From 2019 to 2023, he was Chair of the Labor Migration Working Group of the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD), hosted by the World Bank. He serves on the advisory or editorial boards of several international academic institutions and journals. He is also a regular author of opinion articles in Al Shorouk. His most recent publications include: “The Political Economy of Egyptian Migration to Europe in the 2020s”, in Migrations in the Mediterranean, edited Zapata Barrero, Ricard and Ibrahim Awad, 2023;“A Perspective from the Global South on Concepts in Migration Studies”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2023;“On Occasion of the Pandemic: Reflections on Egyptian Labour Migration”, International Migration, Volume 59, 2021;“The Return of Refugees and Reconstruction in Syria”, in Area Studies: New Realities, New conceptions, edited by Tim Niblock, Yang Guang and Zhou Yan. 20