Kamel NAWAL

Dr. Nawal Kamel is the Director of the AEMI Initiative, at the ASEAN Studies Center, and a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. Until 2012, she was a Director at the World Bank, in Washington, D.C., a position she had held since 1994. During her career, Nawal has also served at the Deputy Ministerial level in the Department of Natural Resources, Canada, working closely with the Minister to advise on decisions regarding his portfolio of energy, mining and forestry. She was the Canadian lead for a joint Canada-US Task Force on electricity distribution in North America, co-chaired by the Ministers of Energy from both the United States and Canada. The success of this Task Force earned her the 2005 Key Women in Energy-Global award from the Energy Marketers Association in the United States. She also spent two years at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (UK), an academic organization dedicated to research in energy and to fostering a dialogue between energy producing and consuming countries, and private sector entities. Finally, as part of her contribution to her country of origin, Nawal was also the founding Executive Director of the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development, the first family Foundation dedicated to social development in Egypt. She holds a Doctorate in Mathematics from the Sorbonne (Paris) and a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University (UK).

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