Ali Elguellab
Senior Researcher and Economist, Laboratory of Industrial Economics and Emergence of Africa (EIEA), Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Ali Elguellab is a Senior Researcher and Economist at the Laboratory of Industrial Economics and Emergence of Africa (EIEA), Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Morocco. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Mohammed V University in Rabat, where he earned highest honors for his dissertation on the macroeconomic, granular, and mesoeconomic origins of Morocco’s business cycle. Before joining UM6P, he served as Senior Economist at the High Commission for Planning (HCP) and lectured in economics and econometrics at the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA-Rabat). He regularly collaborates with international institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, and the Policy Center for the New South. His research focuses on industrial economics, macroeconomic dynamics, sectoral granularity, production networks, and input–output modeling in developing economies. He has published in indexed journals and serves as a reviewer for several international publications.
Areas of Interest:
- Industrial economics
- Structural transformation
- Productivity
- Business cycle
Education:
- Ph.D. in Economics (Applied Economics), Mohammed V University in Rabat, 2018–2023
- Engineer in Applied Economics (Master’s Degree), National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA), 2005–2007
- Engineer in Economics and Statistics (Bachelor’s Degree), National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA), 1994–1998
Experience:
- Senior Researcher and Economist, Laboratory of Industrial Economics and Emergence of Africa (EIEA), Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Morocco, March 2025 – Present
- Development Economist, Directorate of Planning, High Commission for Planning (HCP), Morocco, 2019 – 2025
- Firm Surveys Officer, Directorate of Statistics, High Commission for Planning (HCP), Morocco, 2018 – 2019
- Economist and Head of Studies & Modeling Department, National Institute for Economic Diagnosis (INAC), High Commission for Planning (HCP), Morocco, 1998 – 2018
- Lecturer, National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA-Rabat), 2022 – 2024
Latest Publications:
- Elguellab, A., Ezzahid, E. Impulsion or propagation? Large firms and the business cycle in a developing economy. Empir Econ 69, 1963–1994 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-025-02791-4
- Dissecting the Moroccan business cycle: A trade-based identification of agricultural supply shocks, Economic Modelling, Volume 129, 106529, December 2023
- A new identification method of economic large shocks in the input-output framework: application to the COVID-19, Journal of Economic Structures, 12, 24 (2023).
