Our Experts & Network Partners| Our Advisors

The Amr Group's core team is based both in the U.S. and the Arab World with a network of trusted consultants fluent in the professional culture of the Arab World throughout region. We have been working closely with NGOs, and on projects building Arab-Western relations since the 1980s. The Amr Group was founded in 2001 and its leading consultants have since undertaken endeavors in Europe, America and across the Arab World, from the Atlantic to the Gulf, with a concentration of expertise in the Levant, particularly Jordan and Lebanon, but also Morocco, Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula. We welcome partnerships with global companies, NGOs and institutions seeking advanced expertise in the Arab World and Arab-Western relations.

Hady Amr
managing partner

Hady Amr is a leader in the conceptualization and launch of innovative institutions with strategic focus on the Arab World & on Arab-Western relations. He is an expert in human development—economic, social and political—who formerly served at the World Bank, with over twenty years of rigorous professional experience managing projects funded by the World Bank, various United Nations agencies, the Ford Foundation, USAID and similar institutions. Previously, he served in the Clinton Administration as an appointee at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University, and as National Director for Ethnic American Outreach for Al Gore's Presidential Campaign. He also undertakes many pro-bono endeavors advising start-up NGOs. He currently serves as Director of the Brookings Doha Center and is a Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.

Hady was reappointed by Virginia's Governor Mark Warner in 2004 to the board of the Virginia Public School Authority. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State he conducted scores of discussion groups in eight Arab countries on the U.S. foreign policy making process and in 2004 authored The Need to Communicate: How to Improve U.S. Public Diplomacy with the Islamic World for the Brookings Institution. Hady was raised in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East and embraces innovative multicultural solutions. He speaks English, French and Arabic and earned his undergraduate degree in Economics from Tufts University and a masters degree in Economics from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School where he was appointed by the Princeton University Board of Trustees to serve on the School’s Advisory Council .