Wadouda Abd El Rahman Badran
Dean
Faculty of Business Administration, Economics and Political Science
The British University in Egypt (BUE)
Misr-Ismailia Desert Road
Al-Sherouk City, 11837, P.O.Box 43
Al-Sherouk City, Cairo, EGYPT
Work: (+202) 2689 0000 Ext. 1030
Cell: (+20100) 600-0027/ 0122 611 1751
EDUCATION
Ph.D. degree in Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 1981
Major: International Relations
Minors: International History
Comparative Politics
MA Political Science, Faculty of Economics & Political Science, Cairo University, 1973
B.Sc. Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 1968
High School Diploma, American College for Girls, Cairo, Egypt, 1964
Work Experience
Dean, Faculty of Business Administration, Economics and Political Science
2013 – Present
British University in Egypt (BUE), El-Sherouk City, Egypt.
Professor, Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Political Science
1991 – Present
Cairo University, Egypt.
Consultant, Supreme Council
2013 – Present
Arab Women Organization (AWO), an intergovernmental organization under the umbrella of the League of Arab States.
Director General,
2003 – 2013
Arab Women Organization (AWO)
Cultural Counselor and Director, Education and Culture Bureau,
2001 – 2003
Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt, London, UK
Vice Dean, Students’ Affairs, Faculty of Economics and Political Science,
1999 – 2001
Cairo University
Director, English Section, Faculty of Economics and Political Science,
1996 – 2001
Cairo University
Vice Dean, Community and Environmental Affairs, Faculty of Economics and Political
Science
1995 – 1999
Cairo University
Deputy Director, Centre for Political Research and Studies
1994 – 1995
Cairo University
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics and Political Science
1986 – 1991
Cairo University
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Political Science
1981 – 1986
Cairo University
Assistant lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Political Science
1973 – 1981
Cairo University
Demonstrator, Faculty of Economics and Political Science
1968 – 1973
Cairo University
Research Interests & Activities
Membership of Organizations 2000- 2003
Member of the Egyptian National Council for Women
Gender Related Activities 2003 - 2013
Organizing and supervising the Arab Women Organization’s annual program which aims at empowering Arab women and building their capacities to promote progress of Arab societies, raising awareness of the necessity of engaging women as equal partners in social development and coordinating Arab efforts in order to foster women empowerment and to elevate awareness of their vital role in society
Cultural Related Activities 2001- 2003
Organizing the annual Egyptian Cultural Program in the United Kingdom
(September- June) which included a variety of events on Ancient & Modern Egypt
(lectures, exhibitions, music, folklore, films, courses)
Student Related Activities
Administrating the Egyptian Educational missions program in the United Kingdom
(Egyptian students studying in the UK, Egyptian teachers trained in the UK, Saturday
School which teaches the Egyptian primary & Secondary Curriculum) 2001- 2003
Supervisor of Student Scientific Associations, Faculty of Economics and Political
Science, Cairo University 1997-1999
Organizer, Annual Employment Fair, Faculty of Economics and Political
Science, Cairo University 1996- 1999
Academic Supervisor of the Annual People’s Assembly Model, Faculty of Economics
and Political Science, Cairo University 1996- 2001
Coordinator, Annual Student Environmental Awareness Workshops, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University 1995-2001
Research Related Activities
Supervisor, Program of Enhancing Women Participation in Politics, Faculty of
Economics and Political Science, Cairo University1995 – 2001
Visiting Scholar UCLA, US 1994
Coordinator American Studies Program, Centre for Political Research and Studies, Cairo University1994- 2001
Coordinator, the EEC and Egypt, Research Project. Centre for Political Research and
Studies, Cairo University1991 - 1993
Coordinator, Research Methodology Training Project, Centre for Political Research and Studies, Cairo University (activities included preparing scientific material, recruiting candidates from different research institutes in Egypt and Sudan, designing and administering research methodology seminars, coordinating annual research methodology conference) 1986 - 1991
Consultant, Middle East Research Competition (MERC), The Ford Foundation, Cairo1985 - 1988
Teaching Activities
Department of Political Science, Cairo University 1981 - 2001
Institute of Arab Research and Studies , The Arab League, Cairo (part time) 1995 – 2001
Department of Political Science, American University in Cairo (part time) 1985- 1986
Courses taught include Theory of International Relations, International Politics of the Middle East, Development, Research Methodology
Awards & Conferences
Awards
Awarded the Medal of the Tunisian republic as well as the Medal of the second degree of the Kingdom of Bahrain on efforts in supporting Arab Women, 2006.
Conferences
Attended Conferences held in the United States, Sweden, Paris, Korea, Cyprus, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and in Arab countries (members of the Arab Women Organization).
List of Publications
I Books (in Arabic)
(ed) Women and Local Elections, Cairo: Faculty of Economics & Political Science, 1997
(ed) Women and the Labor Movement, Cairo:
Faculty of Economics & Political Science, 1997
(ed) Women and the People’s Assembly Elections, 1995, Cairo:
Faculty of Economics & Political Science, 1997
(ed.) Egypt’s Relations with the EEC. Cairo:
Centre for Political Research and Studies,1992
(ed.) Research Design in Social Science Research, Cairo:
Centre for Political Research and Studies,1992
(ed) Approaches in Social Science, Research, Cairo:
Centre for Political Research and Studies,1992
(ed.) Empirical Research in Political Studies, Cairo:
Centre for Political Research and Studies,1991
(Co-Translator), Joral Manhiem and Richard Rich, Empirical Political Analysis, NJ.:
Prentice Hall Inc. 1981
Translator, Brewster C, Denny. Seeing American Foreign Policy Whole Illinois: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, 1985.
II Articles (in Arabic)
“Egyptian Foreign Policy and the Problems of Egyptian-Israeli Peace” in Abd El Moneim Al Mashat (ed.) Egypt’s Regional Role in the Middle East, Cairo: Centre for Political
Research and Studies.1995.
“Egypt and EEC” in Badran, Egypt’s, Op. Cit. PP.161-202.
“Israel’s Strategic Decisions during the Gulf Crisis” Strategic Thought (Quarterly Journal
Published in Beirut) July 1991, PP. 129-143.
“The EEC States and the Arab World” in International Powers and the Arab System”.
Cairo: National Centre for Middle East Studies. August 1991, PP. 59-85.
List of Publications
“The Gulf Crisis and the International System”. Journal of the Social Sciences, (Quarterly Journal Published by Kuwait University) Spring/Summer 1991, PP 45-71.
“Continuity and Change in the Superpower’s Policy Towards the Arab-Israeli Conflict”.
Strategic Thought, April 1991, PP. 125-155.
“The Analysis of Egypt’s Relations with Western Europe in the Arabic Literature, A
Survey Study” in Kir Eldin, H., and Youssef, A. (eds) Egypt and the EEC, Cairo: Centre
for Political Research and Studies, 1991, pp.4-39.
“American Mediation in the Egyptian/Israeli Dispute over Taba”, El Rashidi, Ahmed (ed)
The Egyptian Administration of the Taba Crisis, Cairo: Centre for Political Research and
Studies, 1990, PP: 139-171.
III Books (in English)
(ed) Privatization in Egypt: The Debate in the People’s Assembly, Cairo: Centre for
Political Research and Studies, 1996.
(ed) EC, Germany and Egypt, Cairo: Centre for Political Research and Studies, 1994.
IV Articles (in English)
“An Evaluation of Arab Integration Schemes”, Political Research Series, Centre for
Political Research and Studies, Cairo University, 1991.
Funding Research Through External Aid: an Exploratory Study of the Egyptian Case
1975-1982”, Political Research Series, Centre for Political Research and Studies, Cairo
University, 1988.
“Politics of the Global Powers Towards the Arab World” in Dessouki, Ali Hillal,
International Relations in the Arab World 1973-1982. Tokyo: Institute of Developing
Economics,1983, PP, 1-78.
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