Sarah Mansour

Assistant Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University, Egypt

Sarah Mansour is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University, Egypt. She has obtained both her Masters and PhD degrees in Economics from Warwick University in the UK. Sarah has also been a Carnegie Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University from June till September 2016. Sarah has been the director of the Center for Institutions, Economics and Law in Egypt and the Master in Law and Economics of the Arab Region Programme (MLEA), a joint programme between FEPS and the Institute of Law and Economics at Hamburg University from November 2017 till November 2019. Sarah is interested in using behavioural economics and experimental methods to address issues related to the political economy of the Egyptian transition and issues on social capital and economic development. She has conducted six lab experiments on students and two lab-in-the-field experiments on Egyptian, Syrian, Tunisian and Jordanian subjects. She has travelled to Atlanta in January 2013 to pilot her first experiment at the Experimental Economics Center at Andrew Young School for Policy Studies. On her return, she prepared the lab at FEPS with both software and computer dividers for her real experiments that started to take place at Cairo University in March 2013.