Rawia Tawfik is an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. She was a researcher at the German Development Institute/ Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) (now the German Institute of Development and Sustainability-IDOS) in Bonn and a visiting research fellow at the Africa Institute of South Africa and the South African Institute of International Affairs. She is a current member of the APN’s advisory board.