Mohamed Amara

Mohamed Amara received his master’s degree in economic modelling from the Higher Institute of Management of Tunis in 2004, before undertaking a PhD in Geography at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a PhD in management (quantitative Methods) at the University of Tunis in 2010. His PhD thesis investigated the spatial inequalities and local development in Tunisia. In 2016, Dr Amara joined the Department of Economics of Higher School of Economic and Commercial Sciences of Tunis as an Associate Professor of quantitative methods. From January to March 2019, he was a Research Follow in the department of Economics at the university of Oxford. Amara’s research focus is development economics, regional sciences, labour market and applied micro-econometrics. He has published in a range of journals on a variety of topics such as the Annals of Regional Science, Social Indicators Research, Annals of Economics and Statistics, Papers in regional science, Middle East development Journal and Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences.