Areas of Interest:

• Industrial Organization-Industrial Policy
• Political Economy
• Labour Markets and Informality
• Development Economics

Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, USA, 2005
• M.A., Economics of Development (with merit), Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1997
• B.Sc., Economics, Faculty of Economics & Political Sciences, Cairo University, 1993
• German School in Dokki Highschool (DEO)

Experience:

• Senior Economist/Researcher German Development Institute (DIE, Bonn, Germany)-present
• Professor, Economics Department, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences (FEPS), Cairo University, Egypt-present.
• Visiting Fellow, Stanford University, California USA-Feb 2015.
• Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Administration, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo, Egypt-2014.

Latest Publications:

• El-Haddad, A. (2020) Picking Winners: Identifying Leading Sectors for Egypt and Tunisia Using the Product Space Methodology. Review of Middle East Economics and Finance 16(1). De Gruyter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rmeef-2019-0015
• El-Haddad, A. and M. Gadallah (2020). The informalization of the Egyptian economy (1998-2012): a driver of growing wage inequality. Applied Economicshttps://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2020.1796917
• Black. A, Roy. P, El-Haddad. A. and K.Yilmaz. The political economy of automotive industry development policy in middle income countries: A comparative analysis of Egypt, India, South Africa and Turkey. Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Center (ESID) Working Paper Series. ESID Working Paper 143. University of Manchester. http://www.effective-states.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/esid_wp_143_black_roy_haddad_yilmaz.final_.pdf
• El-Haddad, A. (2020). Redefining the social contract in the wake of the Arab Spring: The experiences of Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. World Development. Vol. 127 104774. https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0305750X19304231

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