Maggie Sabbag, currently AWIU Treasurer, joined AWIU in 2015 and was President of
the AWIU Board of Directors in 2022-23. Her career focused on emerging markets
finance, mainly in the former Soviet Union, including investment banking and serving as
an advisor for the Central Asian Investment Company, a U.S.-U.K. private equity fund to
identify opportunities in the newly independent Central Asian Republics. She was also
the sovereign analyst for the Emerging Markets Fixed Income Group at Trust Company
of the West (TCW), following economic and political country risk in emerging markets
worldwide. Sabbag has a B.A. in Slavic Languages and Literature/Soviet Studies from
Princeton University (1991) and a Master’s in International Economic Policy from
Columbia University (1998). She is a member of Las Madrinas, supporting Children’s
Hospital Los Angeles, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. She has served
on the Boards of Trustees of Polytechnic School and the Gooden School and currently
chairs the Board of the Pasadena Community Foundation.
