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title: "New York University Abu Dhabi: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "New York University Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting portal campus of New York University, established as a private liberal arts college in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-new-york-university-abu-dhabi
type: Organization
wikidata: Q566189
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University_Abu_Dhabi
website: https://nyuad.nyu.edu
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# New York University Abu Dhabi

> New York University Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting portal campus of New York University, established as a private liberal arts college in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United Arab Emirates
- Founded: 2010-01-01
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: https://nyuad.nyu.edu
- Also known as: NYU Abu Dhabi, NYUAD

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/nyuabudhabi
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NYUAD
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nyuabudhabi

## Key people

- John Sexton, founder (American lawyer and academic (born 1942))
- Iván Szelényi (Hungarian-American sociologist (1938–2026))
- Christian Greco (Italian egyptologist and museum director)
- Hervé Crès (French economist)
- Georgi Derluguian (American sociologist)
- Katepalli R. Sreenivasan (Indian physicist (born 1947))
- Etienne Wasmer (French economist, Sciences Po Paris)
- Kevin O'Rourke (Irish economist and historian)
- Tarek Al-Ghoussein (Kuwaiti visual artist)

## Ownership

Parent: New York University

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on New York University Abu Dhabi, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-new-york-university-abu-dhabi#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q566189, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University_Abu_Dhabi

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