Dina Abdel Fattah

Assistant Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Economics, the American University in Cairo

Dina Abdel Fattah is an assistant professor of economics at The American University in Cairo. Abdel Fattah received her MSc (2009) and PhD (2017) in economics from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the economics of young women in Egypt, preceded by an MSc with a focus on return migration and entrepreneurship in Egypt. In addition to her work, Abdel Fattah has worked as an independent migration, gender and migration, gender and labor market expert who works with a number of local, regional and international institutions.