Nadia Badrawi, President of the Arab Network for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, member of the CHEA International Quality Group Advisory Council, and founder and first CEO of the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education in Egypt, tells us of how her international education journey started with a grant from US AID for a study visit to the USA to learn about curriculum development in Paediatrics. This experience led her to be involved with the World Federation of Medical Education and eventually with quality assurance.

Nadia shares with us how she sought to take these international lessons back to Egypt, and how through the support of the World Bank she led the establishment of the Egyptian quality assurance system and agency. She tells of recent growth of TNE in Egypt and the Arab region, the quality assurance challenges associated with TNE, and the importance of international cooperation in quality assurance... and recalls the long lasting professional links and friendships she made along the way