Dalia Mogahed

• Director
  Gallup Center for Muslim Studies

Dalia Mogahed is an American scholar of Egyptian origin. She is the Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, a non-partisan research center that provides data and analysis to reflect the views of Muslims all over the world. She was selected as an advisor by U.S. President Barack Obama on the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Dalia was born in Cairo, Egypt and immigrated to the United States at the age of 4. She received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering with a minor in Arabic from the University of Wisconsin and subsequently received her MBA from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Dalia is a board member and a leader in several organizations, including the Crisis in the Middle East Task Force of the Brookings Institution, the Executive Board of Women in International Security (WIIS), the leadership group of the Project on US Engagement with the Global Muslim Community, and the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Arab World. She is also a nonresident senior public policy scholar at Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut.