Meet Dr Deena Boraie

Biography

Dr Deena Boraie is the Vice President for Student Life at the American University in Cairo. Dr Boraie is currently the Senior Advisor to Egypt’s Minister of Education for assessment, examinations and curriculum.
Dr Boraie has three decades of experience in higher education administration and leadership, teaching and research. She is a language testing expert and an assessment and evaluation consultant and trainer with extensive experience working with education projects and organisations in Egypt and the region. She is Past President (she served as President for one year in 2013) of the TESOL International Association, a large US-based international association for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. She has published and presented extensively at international conferences on assessment literacy, language testing and assessment, teacher beliefs, student and teacher motivation, teacher professional development and English as a lingua franca. Dr Boraie holds a PhD in Education (language testing) from the University of Wolverhampton in the UK.