Samer Atallah

Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, School of Business, The American University in Cairo

Samer Atallah is associate dean for Graduate Studies and Research and associate professor of economics at AUC School of Business. He is a non-resident fellow at the Middle East Institute and a research fellow at the Economic Research Forum. Atallah is also head of research at Alternative Policy Solutions at AUC. He was a visiting scholar at the Center for Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law at Stanford University in 2016 and a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago Center in Paris during the Winter of 2014. His research interests are in political economy and development economics. His research includes game theory applications of the political economy of democratization and quantitative analysis of election results. He has several publications in the European Journal of Political Economy, the International Journal of Economic Theory and the International of Development and Economics. He earned his PhD from McGill University. He also holds a MA in Economics from McGill University, a MSc. in Engineering from University of California at Berkeley, and a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from The American University in Cairo.