Program

Day 1- Sunday 18 February 2018
08:30-09:30	Registration/Coffee
09:30-11:00	Opening Session Welcome Statements: Mostafa El Feki, Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director Emeritus, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt Keynotes: Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director Emeritus, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt "Measurement of Poverty" Safaa Amer, Professor, George Washington University, USA "Deming & the meaning of Quality"
11:00-11:30	Coffee
11:30-13:00	Session 1- On Justice & Democracy Chair & Opening Speaker: Magued Osman, CEO, Baseera, Egypt "Measuring Social Justice" Speakers: Staffan I. Lindberg, Professor of Political Science, Director of the V-Dem Institute at University of Gothenburg, Sweden "The Use of V-Dem Statistics to Measure SDG Goal 16 & other International policy targets" Sherine Nosier, Research Fellow, Serageldin Institute for Multi-disciplinary Advanced Research (SIMAR), Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt "Indirect Effect of Democracy on Economic Growth in MENA Countries"
13:00-14:30	Lunch
14:30-16:00	Session 2- Household Surveys: Innovations to Better Measure Development Outcomes & Inform Evidence-Based policy Chair& Opening Speaker: Gero Carletto, Manager, C4D2, World Bank, Italy "Households from Space: Integrating Household Surveys with Geospatial Data Sources for Improved Monitoring of Development Outcomes" Speakers: Federico Polidoro, Head of Unit, Integrated System on Economic Conditions and Consumer Prices, Italian Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), Italy "Italian and European Experience in Using Household Surveys to Measure Poverty and the Joint Distribution of Income, Consumption and Wealth" Sherine Al-Shawarby, CAPMAS Representative/ Professor, FEPS, Cairo University, Egypt "Using Population Surveys to Measure and Monitor Poverty: the case of Egypt" Haleema Saeed, Director of International Relations, Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics, Palestine "Innovation in Data Use and Dissemination of Microdata: The Palestinian Experience"
16:00-16:30	Coffee
16:30-18:00	Session3- Evidence-Based Policy Dialogue in Development Policy Chair& Opening Speaker: Heba Nassar, Professor, FEPS, Cairo University, Egypt "Financial Cost Benefit Analysis for Family Planning Programs" Speakers Reham Rizk – Lecturer, British University of Egypt, Egypt "Micro Data and Analysis of the Access to Basic Services in Egypt” Racha Ramadan – Assistant Professor, Cairo University/ ERF Economist, Egypt "Structural and Rural Transformation for Food Security and Poverty Reduction"
18:00-19:00	BA Tour
19:30-20:30	Dinner - Fish Market Restaurant

Day 2- Monday 19 February 2018
08:30-09:00	Coffee
9:00-10:30	Session 1- On Culture, Gender & Education Keynote: Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director Emeritus, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt "Valuation of the Intangible Benefits of Culture Heritage " Speakers: Nadereh Chamlou, Advisor, Women & Economics - Cawtar/GERPA, and former Senior Advisor, The World Bank, Netherlands "How Data and Analytical Research is Advancing the Women’s Empowerment Agenda" Luis Crouch, Consultant, Global Partnership for Education on the Improvement of Data Use in Educational Sector, USA "Trends Education Data Needed for the Sustainable Development Goals and Econometric Assessment of the Value of having the Needed Data"
10:30-11:00	Coffee
11:00-12:30	Session 2- Decisions in the Era of Big Data Chair& Opening Speaker: Noha Adly, Head of Serageldin Institute for Multi-disciplinary Advanced Research (SIMAR), Egypt "Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Social Media" Speakers: Ihab Ilyas, Professor, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada "Big Data Analytics and its Challenges in Large Scale Socio-economic Development" Khaled El Attar, Head of IT Infrastructure Sector, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt "Big Data and Public Sector Innovation Capacity" Fatma ElZahraa Geel, General Manager, Data Analysis and Indicators Department, IDSC, Egypt "Corruption Perception Index in Egypt"
12:30- 14:00	Lunch
14:00- 15:30	Session 3- Quantitative Analysis for Health & the Importance of Access to Research Methods Chair& Opening Speaker: Ronald La porte, Professor Emeritus, Former WHO Collaboration Centre, USA "Epidemiology, Stataphobia and the BA Serageldin Library" Speakers: Faina Linkov, Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA " Global Research Productivity in the Era of Big Data" Eugene Shubnikov, Institute of Internal Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Russia "Russian Statistical Training, Building the Largest Scientific Network" Musa Kana, Lecturer, Researcher and Public Health Physician at the Kaduna State University, Nigeria "Statistical Training and Statistical Literacy in Africa"
15:30-16:00	Coffee
16:00-17:30	Session 4- Statistics, Impacts & Policy Chair& Opening Speaker: Safaa Amer, Professor, George Washington University, USA "International Statistics - The Kitchen & Market!” Speakers: Jose Luis Figueroa /Sikandra Kurdi, Associate Research Fellows, IFPRI Egypt "Using Impact Evaluations for Improving Development Policies and Programs, Examples from IFPRI" Abdel Karim AbdRabo, ARCA Executive Director, Egypt "Electricity Consumption in Urban Environment Under Climate Change" Debarati Guha- Sapir, Director of Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters "CRED" /Professor at University of Louvain, Belgium "Evidence for Public Policy: Data Applications of Human Impacts of Disasters and Civil Conflicts"
17:30- 18:30	Closing Session Mostafa El Feki, Director, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt Ismail Serageldin, Founding Director Emeritus, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt "What We Have Learned & Where Do We Go from Here"