Areas of Interest:

• Strategic Planning and Development
• Labor Economics
• Economics of Education

Education:

• Ph.D. in Economics, Kansas State University, USA, 2004
• M.Sc. in Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 1997
• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Cairo University, 1992.

Experience: 

• Advisor, Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait (March 2017- Now)
• Full Economic Professor, Institute of National Planning, Egypt (June 2015 – Now).
• Minister of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform (June 2014 – Feb. 2017)
• Minister of Planning and International Cooperation (Feb. 2014 – June 2014).
• Minister of Planning (July 2013 – Feb. 2014)
• Minister of Planning and International Cooperation (August 2012 – May 2013)
• Chairman of the Board of Directors, National Investment Bank (August 2012 – Feb. 2017)
• Senior Economic Expert, Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait (Dec. 2011- July 2012)
• Head of the Minister’s Technical Office, Ministry of Planning (Jan. 2006- Dec. 2011)

• “Arab Spring: An Economic Approach to Understand the Motivations and Extract Lessons”, Journal of Development and Economic Policies, Arab Planning Institute, Volume 15, Number 1, January 2013, pp. 83-127 (in Arabic)
• “Access and Equity in Higher Education Finance: A Comparative Assessment of Six Arab Countries”, in Ahmed Galal and Taher Kanaan (editors) 2010. "Financing Higher Education in Arab Countries”, ERF Policy Research Report, Number 34, July 2010
• “Arab Immigrants in the United States: How and Why Do Returns to Education Vary by Country of Origin?”, Journal of Population Economics, Volume 23, Number 2, March 2010, pp. 519-538 (with James Ragan)
• "Food Subsidies in Egypt: Assessment and Reform Options." World Food Program, Egypt, 2010 (with Karima Korayem)