In a ceremony held on its New Cairo campus, the American University in Cairo (AUC) launched its new School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) and the School of Business (BUS) – the first schools of their kind in Egypt and the Middle East. The event was attended by Egyptian and international dignitaries and public figures, and included speeches by AUC President David D. Arnold, Ambassador Nabil Fahmy and Dean Sherif Kamel. The event also featured a panel discussion, “Public Private Partnerships: Opportunities and Challenges in the Global World,” with panelists Rachid Mohamed Rachid, minister of trade and industry; Ismail Serageldin, director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina; Ali Faramawy, vice president-Microsoft International, Middle East and Africa; Ghassan Salame, professor of international relations at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, and senior adviser to the United Nations secretary general; Dipak C. Jain, former dean and professor of marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; Soumitra Dutta, Roland Berger professor of business and technology and academic director, eLab, INSEAD, France; and Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat professor for peace and development, University of Maryland. More