Myriam Ramzy

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt

Ms. Myriam Ramzy Michel is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. In 2005, she graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science with a major in economics and minor in statistics. Since 2006, she has been working as an Assistant Lecturer in the French Section. In 2011, she obtained her Master’s degree in economics, with her thesis entitled “The Role of Innovation in Creating the Knowledge-Based Economy”. In 2018, she defend her PhD thesis entitled “The Impact of Environmental Regulations on International Trade for the Most Important Agricultural Commodities between the European Union and Middle East and North Africa Countries”. She got promoted to be an assistant professor in 2018. Currently, she is teaching undergraduate courses (Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, Public finance, European Economies and Policies, and National Accounts) as well as graduate courses (Development Theories and International Economics) in the joint program of development economics between Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne and Faculty of Economics and Political Science. In 2018, she became a junior researcher in the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Economic Studies (EMNES). She is currently a Co-chair holder at the World Trade Organization Chair Program (WCP). Her recent publications are Ramzy, M. and Zaki, C. (2018). “Do Environmental Matter for EU-MENA Trade?”, Applied Economics, https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2018.1441519; Ramzy, M. and Zaki, C. (2019). “Unleashing Trade Potential in the South and East Mediterranean Countries: How do Non-Tariffs Measures Matter?”, EMNES policy paper No.007; and Ramzy, M. and Zaki, C. (2020).”Trade Integration and South-South Cooperation: How Digitalization Matters in Africa?”, UNOSSC, (forthcoming). Her main fields of interests are International Trade, Knowledge Economy and Environmental Economics.