Maggie Nassif is the Executive Director of the Binational Fulbright Commission in Egypt, the oldest and largest in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She is also an alumna of the U.S. Fulbright Scholar and the American Field Service (AFS) Programs.
Dr. Nassif has extensive international education, development, and federal funding management experience, coordinating multinational teams of elite experts in delivering cost-effective solutions and tailored programs in the U.S. and MENA region countries, including Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, and the UAE. She held several executive positions as the Director of the Arabic Summer MBA Program for the Wharton School of Business/Lauder Institute, Administrative Director of the federally funded National Middle East Language Research Center, Assistant Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Middle East Center and ESL Coordinator at the State University of New York. She began her career teaching women’s studies, writing, and business culture at the University of Pennsylvania, Penn State, Drexel University, State University of New York, the University of Rochester, the Rochester Institute of Technology, Monroe Community College, the College of Notre Dame, Cairo University and the American University in Cairo. Maggie’s main research interests are business culture, cultural studies and women’s issues in the Middle East. Prior to joining the Commission in 2014, she was involved in multi-country studies and projects to aid American students with job preparedness skills for the global market through online instruction, experiential learning and internships. Maggie’s work in Egypt focuses on capacity building in academia, the public and private sectors in fields that range from health, economic development, food security, natural resource management, to arts, languages, youth empowerment and employment .
Maggie has a PhD and Masters in Comparative Literature. In addition, she studied business at the Wharton School of Business and ASU where she completed her MBA in 2005.
