Areas of Interest:

• Labor and Human Resources
• Development Economics
• Migration Economics
• Political Economy

Education:

• Ph.D. in Economics, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. 2017
• M.Phil. in International and Development Economics, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2013
• M.A. in Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, 2012
• B.A. in Economics, joint degree between the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Cairo University, 2011

Experience:

• Economist, Office of the Chief Economist of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region of the World Bank, April 2022 - Present
• ETC (EC2) - Office of the Chief Economist for the MENA Region, World Bank, September 2021 – March 2022
• Young Fellowship Program on Forced Displacement, World Bank, (with UK Aid & UNHCR) 2020–2021
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Paris School of Economics, 2018
• Scientific coordinator, Dynamics department, Institut Convergences Migrations, 2018
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Strasbourg, 2017 - 2018

• Labor Market Transitions in Egypt Post-Arab Spring (with Jingyuan Deng, Luca Flabbi, and Roberta Gatti). Middle East Development Journal, 2024, forthcoming.
• Fertility and Labor Supply Responses to Child Allowances: The Introduction of Means-Tested Benefits in France. Demography, 2023.
• Labor Market Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the West Bank and Gaza (with Jingyuan Deng, Luca Flabbi, and Roberta Gatti). LABOUR, 2023.