American University in Cairo welcomes new trustees

Ahram Online

Last week, the American University in Cairo welcomed Nora Abousteit and Kristin Lord as new trustees

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Two prominent leaders with backgrounds in education, international relations and social entrepreneurship have recently joined the Board of Trustees of the American University in Cairo (AUC). The new additions to the board, Nora Abousteit ’00, founder and CEO of social-crafting business CraftJam Inc, and Kristin Lord, president and CEO of the global development and education nonprofit IREX, bring diverse sets of skills to the board. ...

In her four-year stint as executive vice president and the director of studies at the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS), Lord served as editor-in-chief of more than 100 CNAS publications and wrote significant studies on topics such as diplomacy and development, cyber security and US global engagement. As a fellow at the Brookings Institution, she directed the science and technology initiative of the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World and authored studies on human development in the Arab world and US public diplomacy [JB emphasis].