A competent Economist with international professional experience at leading entities including universities, commercial banks, and companies. I am a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Nottingham (fixed-term appointment) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), with primary research interests in fiscal policy, macroeconomics and the political economy of the Middle East, and secondary interests in econometrics, public economics and institutional economics. Experienced in DSGE modelling, econometric forecasting and policy evaluation, with a strong record of integrating macroeconomic modelling with micro-level data analysis and Big Data methods. Research investigates novel fiscal policy instruments; how the state of the economy and debt management shape aggregate fluctuations; and the distributional and firm-level consequences of different institutional environments, using DSGE models, rich macroeconomic and microeconomic datasets, and modern time-series and panel econometric techniques. Committed to theoretically grounded, empirically rigorous and policy-relevant work that speaks to core debates in macroeconomics, public finance and political economy, and to active collaboration with colleagues and students in broad, analytically oriented economics departments.

Qualifications

2019 - 2024 Ph.D in Economics - City, University of London (United Kingdom)

2015 - 2017 M.Sc. in Economics of the Middle East - University of Marburg (Germany)

2013 – 2015 M.Sc. in Economics, Coursework completed with distinction - Cairo University (Egypt) 

2006 - 2010 Bachelor of Commerce - Menoufia University (Egypt) 

Professional Affiliations

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Other Education

2023 - 2024 Graduate Visiting Research Student, University of Victoria (Canada) 

2022 - 2023 Visiting Research Scholar - University of Texas at Dallas (United States)   

2021 - 2022 Summer School on the Science and Art of DSGE Modelling - University of Surrey (United Kingdom)

2020 - 2021 Summer School on Computational Techniques and Methods to Solve Nonlinear DSGE Models - University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

2014 - 2015 Postgraduate Diploma in Social Research Design and Policy Evaluation - The American University in Cairo (Egypt)