Curriculum Vitae

WORK EXPERIENCE AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

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EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT (August 2018 to date)

 

Lead Economist for the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Region

• Conducting country diagnostics to assess economic challenges and opportunities

• Providing forecasting for the main economic indicators for six Countries of Operations

• Leading and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams from the Banking and Risk departments

• Coordinating technical capacity consultancy for members of Middle Eastern governments 

• Contributing to the Bank Strategic investment in the Middle East

• Managing a team of economists in the Economics, Policy and Governance department

 

 

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (February 2006 to May 2018)

 

Senior Economist at the IMF’s Middle East Center for Economics and Finance (CEF) in Kuwait (March 2016 to March 2018)

• Leading missions for delivering capacity development to Middle Eastern officials in IMF HQ, CEF, Morocco

• Managing a task-force to develop new IMF case studies adapted to Middle Eastern economies

• Participating in the development and delivery of the online Arabic and French IMF courses (Washington DC)

• Managing the recycling and sustainability initiatives

• Coaching staff members on interpersonal skills Expert at the IMF’s ICD, Washington DC (May 2011 to February 2016)

• Participated in capacity development missions on Macro-diagnostics, FPP, External Vulnerabilities, and Debt Management to the UAE, Tunisia, Kuwait, Gambia and Senegal

• Delivered FPP courses in HQ

• Delivered training in English, French and Arabic

 

Economist at the IMF’s ICD, Washington DC, Asian Division (February 2006 to July 2006) and Middle East Division (July 2006 to March 2011)

• Participated in developing the External Sector Issues (ESI) course, including designing the course curriculum, selecting reading material, creating lectures and introducing workshops tailored to the MENA region

• Participated in ESI missions to Algeria (mission chief), UAE (for Iraqi officials), Lebanon, and UAE (region-wide)

• Participated in FPP missions to Morocco, West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon (for Afghani officials), UAE, and Singapore (for Afghani officials)

• Participated in External Vulnerabilities missions to UAE and Cameroon (in French for African officials)

• Participated in Macro-Fiscal Policies (MFP) missions to UAE and Lebanon (for Palestinian officials)

• Participated in Design of Fiscal Policy mission to Saudi Arabia 

• Delivered annually FPP courses in HQ

• Delivered MFP (coordinator) and Macro-Management of Financial Sector courses in HQ

• Acting Division Chief

• Published analytical and policy papers on competitiveness, currency unions and other economic challenges in developing countries

• Mentored new economists in the Middle East Division

• Coached successfully numerous Arab-speaking economists for the IMF panel interviews

• Attended regularly Fund training courses and research seminars

 

 

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONACO (November 2002 - Date)

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Director of Research and Research Dissemination (September 2012 to March 2016)

• Coordinated research orientation of faculty members

• Organized internal and group level seminars (INSEEC Universities)

• Coordinated conference attendance of faculty

• Evaluated faculty research for the annual appraisal

• Served on the Faculty and research committee

• Drafted accreditation reports (chapters on intellectual contributions)

• Participated in numerous internal and external doctoral and other thesis defense juries

 

Director of Doctoral Program (March 2011 to August 2012)

• Designed the new program framework

• Updated the curriculum

• Selected the program staffing

• Selected the PhD candidates

• Developed evaluation procedures for ongoing students

• Coordinated joint PhD accreditation with University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis

• Organized PhD thesis defenses and coordinated graduation ceremonies

 

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Full Professor of Economics and Econometrics (June 2012 to Date)

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Associate Professor of Economics and Econometrics (March 2011 to June 2012)

• Delivered graduate courses:  International Economics for Financial Markets, Managing Forex Exposure, Financial Economics, Doctoral Workshop, Research and Report Writing, Multinational Firms in the Global Economy

• Delivered undergraduate courses: Microeconomics

• Developed and delivered new courses: Globalization and Management; Macroeconomics for Financial Forecasting

• Served on the DBA, MBA, MFIN and MIB program committee, on the library committee

• Supervised undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students’ research

 

Head of Research Department (September 2004 to February 2006)

• Coordinated research orientation of faculty members

• Organized internal seminars

• Served on the Faculty and Research accreditation committee

 

 

Associate Professor of Economics and Econometrics (July 2004 to February 2006)

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Assistant Professor of Economics and Econometrics (November 2002 to June 2004)

• Delivered undergraduate courses: Microeconomics, International Political Economy, International Economics, Global Business Strategies

• Delivered graduate courses: MBA Business Simulation

• Developed and delivered new graduate courses: Introduction to Econometrics, Advanced Econometrics

• Supervised undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students’ research

 

 

GLOBAL ECONOMICS AND FINANCE CONSULTING (March 2011 to present)

 

General Manager

• Consulting missions for academic institutions

• Consulting missions for central banks

• Consulting missions for private investors

 

 

WORLD BANK (May 2005)

 

Short-Term Expert

• Project on Exchange Rate Misalignments in the MENA Region

 

 

UNIVERSITY OF NICE – SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS (September 2004 to February 2006)

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Teaching Fellow

• Lectured and mentored students in courses on microeconomics, and international trade and finance

 

 

COMPAGNIE MONEGASQUE DE BANQUE (July 2000 – June 2001)

 

Investment Advisor

• Managed portfolios for Middle-Eastern Clientele

• Attended client meetings abroad to discuss investment strategies

• Reported to the hedge-fund managers

 

 

EGYPTIAN COMPANY FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADING (September 1993 – December 1998)

 

Manager and Shareholder

• Managed a team of 4 full-time and 3 part-time employees

• Conducted market studies and drafted business plans

• Conducted export/import operations; dealt with customs

• Raised capital from investors

• Held accounting

• Hedged exchange rate fluctuations

• Coped with changing legislations

• Managed crisis situations

 

 

OTHER ACTIVITIES

 

Monaco-Mediterranean Research Network, Monaco. (2015 to present)        

• Founding Member and President

 

Euro-Mediterranean Economists Association, Barcelona, Spain. (2013 to 2016)

• Founding Member and Vice President

 

  Middle East Economic Association, USA. (2009-2013)

• Elected Board Member

 

  Egyptian American Cultural Association, Washington DC, USA. (2007-2011)          

• Elected Vice-President (2009-2011)

• Elected Cultural Director (2007-2009)

 

  Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt (2004-2014)          

• Research Associate

 

 Association Franco-Egyptienne de la Côte d’Azur, Nice, France. (1997-2002)          

• Elected Vice-President

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

UNIVERSITY OF NICE – SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, Faculty of Economics, France. (1998-2012)

 

• Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Economics)

Highest French Post-Doctoral Academic Degree granting the right to supervise PhD candidates’ research

Subject: Exchange Rate Policies and Macroeconomic Management in Developing Countries

 

• Ph.D. degree (Economics), Summa Cum Laude

Subject: Globalization and Exchange Rate Regimes: The Case of Egypt

 

• Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Economic Research

Specialization: Macrodynamics and International Finance

Subject: The impact of market opening and international competition on the economic growth of developing countries: The Case of Egypt

 

 

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN, Department of Economics, Denmark. (2004)

 

• Post-graduate diploma in Econometrics - Cointegrated VAR Models

Courses delivered by Professors Søren Johansen and Katarina Juselius

 

 

AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY, Faculty of Commerce, Egypt. (1989-1993)

 

• Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Business Administration

 

 

LYCEE FRANCAIS D’HELIOPOLIS, Egypt. (1980-1989)

 

• French Baccalauréat Equivalence, Série S (Mathematics)

 

 

LANGUAGES: Fluent in Arabic, English and French

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RESEARCH AWARDS

 

• European Commission, Directorate General for Development and Cooperation – Europe Aid,  Belgium. (2015-2017)

         Regional Programme Neighbourhood South, DEVCO F/IM/VR ARES (2014)

         EUR 2.2 million

         Euro-Mediterranean Network for Economic Studies

         Project Initiator and Co-Coordinator

         Project members: Center for Economic Policy Studies (Belgium), Cairo University (Egypt), Free University of Berlin (Germany), Euro-Mediterranean University (Slovenia), Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (Tunisia), Institut Agronomique et Veterinaire Hassan II (Morocco), Institut Tunisien de la Compétitivité et des Etudes Quantitatives (Tunisia), Université Euro-Med de Fes (Morocco), Yarmouk University (Jordan).

 

• Economic Research Forum, Egypt. (2013-2015)

        Research Initiative for Arab Development. (2013)

         USD 90,000

         Project leader

         Monetary Policy in Resource-Dependent Economies

         Team members: Ibrahim Elbadawi, Raimundo Soto, Russel Krueger, Damyana Bakardzhieva,  Mohamed Goaied, Moez Ben Tahar, Hoda Selim.

 

• Middle East Economic Association, USA. (2008)

         Ibn Khaldun Prize for best research

 

• Global Development Network, Egypt. (2005-2006)

         5th Research Competition,

         USD 20,000

         Project leader

         Monetary Union among the GCC Countries & the Appropriate Exchange Rate Policy and Monetary Policy Coordination

         Team members: Emily Rutledge, Fatima El Shamsi, Damyana Bakardzhieva, Sami Ben Naceur.