Volunteer focus: building a more inclusive North Carolina in partnership with local activists and longstanding as well as emerging organizations fighting to defend and strengthen our democracy. Career focus: improving governance through cross-sector engagement and partnering; international development, including combating poverty, building inclusive growth.Available for short-term assignments in business development, program design, and knowledge management. Starting a long-postponed book project to write a memoir on my 9 years living and working in Egypt, focusing on the years around the 2011 Tahrir Revolution, building a new graduate program in public policy and administration, and working with Egyptian students, colleagues, and activists. Previous experience: --International development consulting, Total of 35 years as a development practitioner, including: 1) director of the Washington Center of UNC-Chapel Hill's Kenan Institute (16 yrs.), 2) analyst and leader of the largest practice at Nathan Assoc., (6 yrs.) agric. economist at DAI (3 years), and 1st agric. economist in USAID's Cairo mission (3 years), as well as numerous short-term consulting assignments.. --Academic leadership. 6 years as program head/founding chair of Public Policy and Admin.Dept.at the American University in Cairo. Rebuilt struggling program into one of AUC's largest graduate programs, introduced two new degrees, totally revamped curriculum, enabling AUC to offer the Middle East's 1st MPP, rebuild its MPA (both NASPAA accredited), & add new MGA. One-year visiting associate professor in the international development department at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University.Education: PhD/MPP Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy Schl, MA devt econ, Stanford, BA cl Barnard Coll.Specialties: local economic devt, corporate social responsibility, public-private partnerships, public policy analysis, international devt, nonprofit mgmt, economic devt, governance, Islamic tools for community devt.