Amy Ekdawi

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Amy Ekdawi is Executive Director of the Arab Watch Coalition (AWC) (LinkedIn – X), a network of civil society organizations that monitor financial institutions such as the World Bank and IMF to promote more inclusive, accountable, equitable, and sustainable development in the region.

Amy has been working with pro-rights civil society movements around the world since 1988. Her work in the last 20 years has focused on building connections between pro-rights movements in the global South and global North to promote social, economic, and environmental justice in the policies and portfolios of international financial institutions. Before joining Arab Watch Coalition, Amy led regional programs around the world, including in the MENA region, for the Bank Information Center, a nonprofit watchdog in the United States promoting accountability and transparency in development finance.

Amy has master’s degree in international relations from the Elliott School at George Washington University in Washington D.C., and a Participatory Community Development Diploma from the Coady Institute at St. Francis Xavier University in Canada. She also has a master’s degree in French-Arabic Interpretation from Ain Shams University in Egypt, where she also received a bachelor’s degree in French Language and Literature.

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A woman sits on a wooden plank with her hands clasped around her knees and a worried expression on her face outside of a wooden hut whose shadowed entryway appears near the center of the frame.

World Bank Group Doubles Down on Risky Strategy Despite Microlending Gaps

Oct. 14, 2026 Amy Ekdawi