Assem Abu Hatab

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala (Sweden) & Senior Development Economist, Nordic Africa Institute , Uppsala (Sweden)

Assem Abu Hatab is an associate professor at the Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and a senior development economist at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden. He has been a research fellow at ERF since 2022. He is an applied economist with broad empirical interests and focus on the economics and sustainable management of natural resources and food systems in ENA and other low- and middle-income countries. Assem Abu Hatab holds a PhD in economics, and he studied agricultural economics, food and agricultural sciences, and development economics at Suez Canal University (Egypt), Northwest A&F University (China), and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Norway). Assem coordinated, consulted and participated in several international projects and his research received funding, including from the CGIAR, EU2020, World Bank, the Swedish Research Council, the Norwegian Research Council, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, and the Egyptian Science and Technology Development Fund. In 2018, Assem was selected a lead author for the 6th IPCC Assessment Report. In 2022, Assem was appointed by the Government of Sweden as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). In 2016, he was awarded the Civil Society Scholar Award from the Open Society Foundations. In 2013, he was also awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Arab Fund for Social and Economic Development.