Bahgat Korany

Bahgat Korany serves as Professor of International Relations and Political Economy at The American University in Cairo (AUC), where he directs the AUC Forum. He concurrently holds an honorary professorship at the University of Montreal and has been an elected member of Canada's Royal Society since 1994—the first non-Canadian-born political scientist to receive this distinction. His academic footprint extends through visiting professorships at Sciences Po (Paris), Oxford University, Harvard University, and Algiers University.

His research critically examines International Relations and Political Economy with concentrated expertise in Middle Eastern Politics, Arab Spring dynamics, and Global South scholarship. Korany's influential 2010 book The Changing Middle East was recognized by CNN in 2011 for anticipating the Arab Spring a year before its eruption. His scholarly output exceeds 100 peer-reviewed articles in journals like Revue Francaise de Sciences Politiques and World Politics, alongside twelve monographs published in English and French, with translations spanning Spanish, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese.

Korany's editorial leadership includes service on the boards of European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, International Political Science Review, El-Siassa El-Dawliyya, Mediterranean Politics, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Science. From 2010-2013, he spearheaded the UNDP's 10th anniversary Arab Human Development Report as lead author.

His distinguished honors include:

• Hauchman Prize for Social Change, Charisma and International Behavior
• Election to Canada's Royal Society (1994)
• International Studies Association's Distinguished Global South Scholar award (2014), succeeding Ali Mazrui as the first Arab recipient

Public engagement features prominent addresses at the British Parliament (January 2013) and European Parliament (April 2017). The source material contains no documented information regarding graduate student supervision, research grants, or laboratory affiliations.