Maya Morsy

Maya Morsy () is an Egyptian political scientist and specialist in public policy. She is an elected President of Egypt's National Council for Women (NCW) on 1 February 2016 to Date as the third and the youngest President of the NCW since it was established in 2000 (Ministerial Decree). The National Women Machinery of Egypt an independent body by law and constitution reporting to the President of Egypt, since February 2016. Before she was elected to lead the NCW, Morsy served as regional gender team leader for the Regional bureau of United Nations Development Programme in New York and  Regional Center in Amman before she served as the Country Manager for the United Nations Development Fund for Women. She has been described as "one of the best public policy experts on social gender in Egypt, and perhaps even in all of the Arab world".

The NCW was created in 2000 by Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, and led by Suzanne Mubarak. Its board was restructured after the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and reorganized in 2012.
Mrs. Morsy lost her son "Amin" in January 2020 in an accident.

Education
Morsy obtained a BA in political science from the American University in Cairo in 1995, an MBA from the City University of Seattle in 1997, and an MA in public administration from Seattle in 1998. In 2008 she received a PhD in public policy from the Institute of Arab Research and Studies in Cairo.

Career
For more than 23 years, Morsy has been working for national, regional and international organizations, including the National Council for Women, the United Nations, USAID, academic institutions, and the private sector.  The work experience has strengthened the strategic partnership with the League of Arab States, European Union, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, African Union, Union for the Mediterranean, government organizations, civil society, academic institutions and private sector. 

Morsy worked as a project officer in Egypt in the Sustainable Human Development Platform for Action and Monitoring (1995–1998), and as an academic facilitator for the City University of Seattle and the Arab Academy of Science and Technology (1997–1998). She was a consultant for the Girls Education and Empowerment Project of the Egyptian Ministry of Education (1998–1999); a project coordinator for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) (1999–2000); and UNIFEM's country program manager (2000–2013). In 2014–2015 she served as the United Nations Development Programme's regional gender team leader for the Arab Region.

Morsy also managed and led more than 50 programs and authored more than 40 training manuals, books, articles, research and policy papers in areas of public policy, development, gender equality and women’s empowerment, peace and security, human security, finance for development.

See also
Women in Egypt

References

Further reading
"Maya Morsi", Enigma magazine.

Category:American University in Cairo alumni
Category:City University of Seattle alumni
Category:Egyptian women in politics
Category:Living people
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)