Biography:

Prof. Ahmed Kamali graduated from the Department of Economics at AUC (1991); he received a Master of Economics from the same university (1995), and a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park (2002). He has extensive experience in academic and international affairs, as well as the private and public sectors. He has served as a researcher at IFPRI in Washington, DC, and a senior economist at International Business and Technical Consultants Inc. (IBTCI). He has also been a research coordinator at the Economic Research Forum in Egypt (ERF), Advisor to the World Bank in Washington DC, and the Chair of the Department of Economics at AUC. Moreover, he has served as Economic Advisor to the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones of Egypt, Director of the Egyptian National Focal Point associated with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the Egyptian Ministry of Investment, and Chief of the Economic Governance and Planning Section at the United Nations, and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA). Currently, he serves as Deputy Minister of Planning, Monitoring, and Administrative Reform, in addition to his work as a Professor in the Economics Department of AUC. His areas of research include business finance, growth theory, applied econometrics, economic development, and monetary and fiscal policies.

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