Ali Sawi

Dr. El-Sawi has over 20 years of experience in legislative development, democracy assistance, participation, institutional capacity building, administrative reform and good governance structures & policies. He is also experienced in monitoring, verification and evaluation of public policies and technical assistance projects. Dr. El Sawi is the Winner of the State Prize, 2000 (Egypt). Currently, he holds the position of a tenured Professor of Political Science, and Supervisor of the Diploma of Parliamentary Studies at Cairo University. Between 1996-2001, he worked as consultant for a USAID-funded Project on Capacity Building of Egypt’s People’s Assembly. He held the position of an Advisor to the Minister of Youth and supervised a nation-wide project on “Parliament of Youth” from 2000- 2003. Dr. El-Sawi has been involved in research & development activities on institutional development of parliament with the UNDP, University of Bonn, USAID, the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, Arab Organization for Administrative Development, and the African Development Bank. He worked extensively with civil society organizations on legislative development. Dr. El Sawi established a Research Unit at Cairo University named: “The Parliamentary Program.” He received his B.Sc. and Masters in political science from Cairo University. As well, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. In addition, he managed to pass several training courses on peace & conflict resolution from the American University in Washington in 1990. In 1995, he received his Law degree from Cairo University. Dr. El-Sawi participated in different study tours to legislatures in Canada, US, Poland, Czech Republic, Palestine, and Lebanon. He is the author a number of books on the Future of Parliament in the Arab World, Assessing the Performance of the People’s Assembly in Egypt, Electoral Systems in the Arab Countries, Parliamentary Media, Women in Parliament, Oversight Functions, Rules & Procedures of the People’s Assembly, etc. Over the course of his work, he gained excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strategic problem planning techniques, versatility, ability to work in multi-cultural settings and willingness to learn. Managed projects, conducted and evaluated a broad spectrum of studies/proposals using different research methodological approaches on issues pertaining to civil society, governance, women’s rights and empowerment, education, Parliamentary issues, and administrative reform. Dr. El Sawi organized internal and external annual conferences/symposia/work shops pertaining to parliamentary and governance issues. As well, he acted as a trainer for different organizations on diverse political issues such as: election campaign management, management of Arab parliamentary houses’, and periodical capacity building courses targeting Egyptian/Arab Parliament Members.

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