Ahmed Galal

Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Economic Research Forum

Ahmed Galal is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Economic Research Forum (ERF). Simultaneously, he is a member of the UN Committee for Development Policy (CDP), a member of the Senior Advisory Panel of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a member of the Presidential Council of Egyptian Scientists and Experts, and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of El Nidaa (an Egyptian NGO). Previously, Galal was Egypt’s Finance minister, ERF Managing Director, Lead economist and economic advisor at the World Bank, and Executive Director and Director of Research of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES). Galal authored or co-authored close to 20 books, including “Welfare Consequences of Selling Public Enterprises”, “The Road Not Traveled: Education Reform in the Middle East and North Africa” In 2004, he was awarded the prestigious regional prize for Economic and Social Sciences by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. Galal holds a PhD in economics from Boston University.