Amr Khafagy
Lecturer in Finance, London Metropolitan University
Amr Khafagy is a development economist with strong experience in economic modelling and applied econometrics. His research interests include the political economy of finance, industrial development, agricultural economics, and applied econometrics. He is the author of The Economics of Financial Cooperatives published by Routledge, in addition to publications in Food Policy, Agribusiness, Journal of Institutional Economics, and Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics.
Areas of Interest:
- Industrial development
- Finance and development
- Agricultural economics
Education:
- PGCert in Academic Practice, University of Gloucestershire, UK, 2022
- PhD in International Development Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Dissertation: The Economics of Financial Cooperatives: Income Distribution, Political Economy and Regulation, 2018
- M.Sc. in Investment, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt, 2014
- Master’s Degree in Management of Development, University of Turin, Italy, 2013
Experience:
- Lecturer in Finance, Guildhall Faculty of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University, 2023 - present
- Senior Research Fellow, Finance in Society Research Institute, Gloucestershire Business School, University of Gloucestershire, 2022 - 2023
- Research Fellow, National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise, Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire, 2021 - 2023
- Research Assistant, Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire, 2019 - 2021
Latest Publications:
- Vigani, M., Khafagy, A., & Berry, R. (2024). Public spending for agricultural risk management: Land use, regional welfare and intra-subsidy substitution. Food Policy, 123, 102603.
- Khafagy, A. and Vigani, M. (2023). External finance and agricultural productivity growth. Agribusiness, 39 (2) 448-472.
- Khafagy, A. and Vigani, M. (2022). Technical Change and the Common Agricultural Policy. Food Policy, 109, 102267.
