Nile El WardaniNile Regina El Wardani, MPH, Mphil, Ph.D., has more than twenty years of experience in developing and industrialized countries, conceptualizing, planning, implementing, funding, publicizing and evaluating projects in public health, education and culture for a diversity of public, private and non-governmental organizations. Her experience includes grant writing, fundraising, media and publicity, strategic planning, program/project design, management and evaluation, qualitative research, program and policy decision-making analysis, training and human resource development, governance and civil society promotion, Arab and Islamic culture and societies.

In the cultural realm she has produced and worked for the Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Music Festival, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and has independently produced at Carnegie Hall, NYC and various concert halls in Paris and Cairo. She organized and helped establish the Ritz Paris Hemingway Award for Literature. In the field of public health and development she has worked with UNESCO, UNIFEM, WHO and many Egyptian NGOs. She has worked on projects with the Egyptian Ministries of Health, Education and Information and bilateral donors including USAID, Finnida, Danida, and the Ford Foundation.

As an activist/producer she produced the first paediatric AIDS benefit in the U.S. at Carnegie Hall, New York, in 1989. The concert was televised on NBC raising awareness that AIDS was a disease, which affects everyone, at a time when the disease was believed to be a "gay" disease. In 1998 she developed the indigenous Egyptian production of Sesame Street (Alam Simsim), which continues to air daily in Egypt and focussing on literacy and health.

She has served (2004/05) on the Pacifica Local Station Board of Directors of KPFK 90.7 FM (Los Angeles) and is a co-host and co-producer of the Radio Intifada a weekly one-hour magazine show on KPFK that covers culture, news and politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Nile currently serves on the UCLA School of Public Health Alumni Board of Directors and the Levantine Cultural Center Board of Directors. Of Egyptian and Danish heritage, Nile is fluent in French, Arabic and Spanish. She received her Ph.D. from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Public Health and Policy Department.