Dr. Saad Eddin İbrahim

Saad Eddin Ibrahim is a member of the High Advisory Board at the Global Political Trends Center. Ibrahim is a prominent Egyptian Social Scientist, Human Rights Defender, and a Democracy Advocate. He has earned his BA degree from the University of Cairo in 1960 and completed his PhD from the University of Washington in 1968 in Sociology. He has more than 30 authored or edited books and more than a hundred scholarly articles. He has previously taught at DePauw, UCLA, Columbia, NYU, American Universities of Beirut (AUB) and Cairo (AUC), Istanbul Kültür University and currently is a Visiting Professor at Indiana University. Ibrahim has founded and/or directed a number of Think Tanks, Policy Institutes and Advocacy Organizations in the Arab World - namely the Arab Human Rights Organization (AHRO), the Arab Thought Forum (ATF), the Arab Board for Childhood and Development (ABCD), the Ibn Khaldun Center for Democratic Studies (IKCD), the Arab Democracy Foundation (ADF), and Voices for a Democratic Egypt (VDE). Ibrahim has collected some 21 Awards and Honorary Degrees from all corners of the world, including the nomination for 2002 Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament, nomination for 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, 2002 International Human Rights Award and the Danish Pundik Freedom Prize bestowed on him in Copenhagen on November 12, 2008.