Nadia Younes | Memorial Lecture Archives

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities HE Khaled El-Enany: Nadia Younes Memorial Lecture 2022

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In 2019, Khaled El-Enany was appointed Egypt’s first minister of tourism and antiquities after a cabinet reshuffle that led to the merging of the Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Antiquities. Prior to that, he held the position of minister of ...

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This year's Nadia Younes Memorial Lecture features Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Sigrid Kaag '85. In 2015, Kaag received an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter and was awarded the Carnegie Wateler Peace Prize in ...

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This year's annual Nadia Younes Memorial Lecture featured Dame Minouche Shafik, former deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund and former deputy governor of the Bank of England, director of the London School of Economics. Listen to ...

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About the Speaker: Dame Minouche Shafik is a leading economist whose career has straddled public policy and academia. She has been the director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) since September 1, 2017. She trained as an ...

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The Younes family and AUC were delighted to welcome Ms. Lubna Olayan as the 11th speaker for the Nadia Younes Memorial lecture. The lecture took place on March 12 2018 at the New Cairo AUC campus with students and special guests in attendance. Her talk, ...

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The American University in Cairo (AUC) hosted the 10th anniversary of the Nadia Younes Memorial Lecture and the 70th anniversary of the United Nations yesterday at the New Cairo Campus. Michael Møller, UN under-secretary-general, spoke at the lecture titled, ...

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Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy delivered the Nadia Younes Memorial Lecture today, March 2n in the Moataz Al Alfi Hall at AUC New Cairo. Fahmy’s lecture was entitled “Foreign Policy for New Egypt: Beyond Ballots and Politics.” Nabil Fahmy, founding ...

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Nabil Elaraby, the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States and former Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs delivered the Nadia Younes Memorial Lecture on February 4, 2013 at the Moataz Al Alfi Hall, AUC New Cairo entitled "Nadia Younes: A Shining ...

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Holder of a Master of Public Health from Harvard University and an MD from the University of Oslo, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland is a medical doctor who spent 10 years as a physician and scientist in the Norwegian public health system, where she worked on ...

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Are Moussa is the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, a position he has held since 2001. Since his appointment, Moussa has been working on achieving his goals of making the Arab League a strong vehicle for the voice of the Arab nations and ...

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Sir Jeremy Greenstock was a British diplomat from 1969 to 2004, with postings in the United States, France, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and at the United Nations. A graduate of Oxfor University, Greenstock was the United Kingdom's ...

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Mary Robinson was the first female president of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997. After her presidency, she became the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Robinson has also served as the honorary president of Oxfam International, chair of the ...

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Dr. Bernard Kouchner, is the co-founder and former president of the Nobel Prize-winning Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Kouchner has played an important role in the French political scene for the past 20 years, holding a number of ...

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Kofi Annan was the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations and the first secretary-general to be elected from the ranks of the United Nations staff. He began his first term in 1997, and in 2001 was appointed by acclamation to a second term of office. ...