Ayat M. Abul-Futtouh

Ayat M. Abul-Futtouh is the former Managing Director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies.

"Ayat Abul-Futtouh has served as the managing director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Cairo, Egypt, since 2003. From 2001 to 2003, she was the program manager in the Forum of Dialogue and Partnership for Development. Prior to this position, Ms. Futtouh worked in the National Center for Middle East Studies, a think tank specializing in political analysis. An Egyptian native, she is a founder and a steering committee member of the Network for Democrats in the Arab World."

In November 2006 she gave a talk at the American Enterprise Institute - a talk which was later published in the AEI book, Dissident and Reform in the Arab World. [1]

• Steering Committee (2006), Network of Democrats in the Arab World