President Ahmad Dallal
In 2021, Ahmad S. Dallal became the 13th president of The American University in Cairo. President Dallal is an accomplished academic leader and renowned scholar with expertise in U.S. and regional higher education. His leadership experience includes spearheading institutional transformations that spanned everything from closing budget deficits and administrative process reforms to introducing key performance indicators and quality measures for academic programs and increasing scholarly production. He also raised the socioeconomic diversity of the student body through scholarships and financial aid.
Key Initiatives

Climate Change
AUC's Climate Change Initiative was established in response to worldwide climate change challenges and the active role academic and research institutions must play in understanding and addressing them.

Campus Planning
The American University in Cairo has begun a campus planning process for the next 100 years, building on the success of the New Cairo campus which opened in 2008. The AUC Next 100 Campus Plan provides a forum to engage the AUC community in creating a vision for the future of the campus.

Mental Health
As a response to the increase in mental health challenges throughout the world, The Mental Health Wellbeing Initiative at AUC aims to ensure that our University has the culture and mechanism needed to address the challenges.



