Rawia Tawfik is an associate professor at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University, and a visiting associate professor at the Council on African Studies at Yale Macmillan Centre for International and Area Studies. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in politics from the University of Oxford. She was also a 2017 recipient of SSRC’s African Peacebuilding Network (APN), Individual Research Fellowship (IRF) Award. Her research interests include resource-based conflicts, especially conflicts over transboundary rivers in Africa, and the Nile basin in particular, African development and regional integration, and the foreign policies of regional powers in Africa and the Middle East.