Laurie Brand
Director and Professor, School of International Relations, University of Southern California
Laurie Brand is Director of the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, where she also a Professor. She previously directed the Center for International Studies at USC from 1997 to 2000. In 2004 she served as president of the Middle East Studies Association. A four-time Fulbright scholar to the Middle East and North Africa, and presently a Carnegie scholar, she focuses on the role of Arab nationalism and Islam in the construction of national narratives. She has conducted field research in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Brand is the author of Citizens Abroad: States and Emigration in the Middle East and North Africa; Women, the State and Political Liberalization; Jordan's Inter-Arab Relations; and Palestinians in the Arab World. She has a bachelor's degree in French from Georgetown University and a master's degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.
