Dr. Noura Wahby

Curriculum Vitae

Noura Wahby is an Assistant Professor of Climate, Environment and Urban Policy (Urban Sustainability) at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. She was previously based at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, American University of Cairo as Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Director of Master of Public Administration, and Director of Middle East Studies Academic programs. She is a fellow with the Governance and Local Development Institute at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden).

She has won multiple grants from the University of Bath, Urban Studies Foundation, University of Sheffield, the University of Gothenburg’s Governance and Local Development Institute, UC Santa Barbara, University of Oxford, among others. Prior to joining Cambridge, she was an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge; and a research assistant at the Cambridge Centre of Smart Infrastructure looking at citizen engagement and digital technologies in the UK. Her doctoral research at Cambridge’s Centre of Development Studies focused on the political economy of urban development and waterscapes in Egypt; and won the 2019 Malcolm H. Kerr Best Dissertation Award in Social Sciences from the Middle East Studies Association (USA). Her research interests include the urban commons, governance, water, and political economy.