Bonnie Stewart

Bonnie A. Stewart, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace of the Entrepreneurial Management Center, College of Business, San Diego State University. Dr. Stewart has more than 25 years of experience in international work in Africa, Middle East and South Asia. She is an experienced manager of international teams of experts, skilled at developing international and domestic programs in a wide-range of disciplines, experienced director of business development for profit and non-profit organizations, expert at establishing partnerships with different governments as well as private companies and experienced in business as well as academic organizations.

While at SDSU, international projects developed and managed by Dr. Stewart included a multilateral and regional program with Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and India; multilateral and regional cooperation program with Morocco, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Palestinian Authority and the U.S.; and project-training activities in the development and implementation of customized technical short courses for Egyptian agricultural scientists. Currently she is co-directing the Entrepreneurs for Peace program. Dr. Stewart is a skilled photographer and does all the photo documentation for the programs she manages.

Before arriving in San Diego, Dr. Stewart was the Director of International Business Development for a major vocational training company, a consultant to the State Department in Yemen and other countries in the Middle East and South Asia, and a university professor in agricultural economics at the American University of Beirut. She also taught courses in Middle East humanities and political science at the University of Arizona and selected courses in technology transfer at New Mexico State University. She is well published in academic journals in a range of disciplines. Her linguistic skills include Modern Standard Arabic, colloquial Levantine Arabic and French.