Congratulations to Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, who is now Research Assistant Professor in Education Policy and Social Analysis.
Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess is an interdisciplinary scholar who leverages fields of economics, sociology, and political science to address the questions of social justice, social mobility, exclusion, and elite formation. She works on concrete ways to facilitate women’s social mobility through better financial inclusion and access to financial services. Her work also examines the role of informal educational practices and formal institutions in creating new societal dynamics, norms, and behaviors. Her most recent work in that arena is an upcoming book on the power of education in (de)radicalization processes within at-risk youths. She has taught, researched, and published on a range of issues in education, including questions of social mobility, exclusion, elite formation, corruption, education leadership and organization, transitional justice, teacher quality, and others.
Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess is a recipient of multiple awards, including grants from the Smith Richardson Foundation; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Kennan Institute; International Research and Exchange Board; Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies, among others. Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess has worked in various capacities for Columbia University, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, UNDP, IFES, IMC, OSCE, UNICEF, ICTJ, and other globally renowned institutions. She serves as a Board Director of the International Center for Transitional Justice; Board Director of the Tuxedo Park School; Board Director of the Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation; and Board Director of Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Sabic-El-Rayess is also a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Benefit-Cost Studies in Education; Affiliated Faculty Member at the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian and Eastern Europe Studies; Member of the World Association of International Studies; and Member of the International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies.