Ami Abou-Bakr

Dr. Ami J. Abou-bakr is a researcher focusing primarily on state resilience in times of significant national crises. Having spent several years working in the US finance sector before returning to academia to obtain her MA and PhD, her research is directed toward informing policy decisions and influencing decision makers. Her PhD research explored the viability of US public-private partnerships (PPPs) to enhance resilience to catastrophic disasters. She also sustains an ongoing and active interest in crisis response in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly in regard to Egypt and Arab Uprisings.

Ami joined the Department of Political Economy in 2011. She holds a BS in Foreign Service from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University with a focus on Middle East Studies, an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and a PhD in Public Policy from King’s College London. Ami has also studied at al-Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco and the American University in Cairo.

• Disaster resilience
• Crisis
• Public-private partnerships for disaster and crisis management
• Arab Uprisings
• Politics of Egypt
• US National (Homeland) Security
• Supply Chain Risk Management