Mohammed Zakariae Aboueddahab

Mohammed Zakariae Aboueddahab is a Doctor in Public Law. He is associate senior researcher at IAV and Professor of International Law and International Relations at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences of Rabat-Agdal. He is also Vice-Dean in charge of scientific

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research, cooperation and partnerships. As Associate Researcher at the Royal Institute of Strategic Studies, he coordinated and formed part of several research teams within the same institution. Author of several national and international publications such as: “Protection of Cultural Heritage and Human Rights,” in James A and R-NAFZIGER SCOVAZZI Tullio (eds.), The Cultural Heritage Of Mankind, Hague Academy of International Law, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden / Boston, 2008, pp. 251-296.

In EMNES, he contributes to the research area on institutions and institutional reforms.

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Nora Aboushady

Nora Aboushady is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She holds a B.A. in Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, an M.A. in International Economics from the Institut d’Etudes

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Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). Nora teaches a number of courses including international economics, microeconomics, economic development, public finance, and European policies. She has collaborated with the OECD MENA Corporate Governance Unit, with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), with the Centre d’ Economie of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon- Sorbonne. She is a member of a number of research networks including EMNES and MEDRESET-rethinking the Mediterranean. Her areas of interest include trade policy, trade in services, social policy and public policy.

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Ilyas Azzioui

Mr Ilyas Azzioui is currently a PhD student in Entrepreneurship at Ibn Tofail University. He is also an associate researcher at IAV. He has an engineer diploma in agronomy, a Master degree in management (ISCAE) and a M.Sc. in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship from

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Manchester Business School, from the University of Manchester. He attended several trainings related to science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship management and evaluation. After one year of experience as a commercial engineer, he joined the National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST) in 2002.

He managed a national research program as well as international research cooperation programs from 2002 to 2006. He has been a member of the Moroccan Incubators Network (RMIE) since 2005. He is currently managing CNRST’s Diaspora Incubator in addition to European projects supporting cooperation between Morocco and EU in the fields of STI and FINCOME program to promote the contribution of highly skilled Moroccan Diaspora to the development of Morocco. Mr. Azzioui conducted and contributed to several studies and projects dealing with marketing, incubation, entrepreneurship, and innovation at national and international levels. He organized, contributed and chaired many national and international workshops and conferences addressing research, innovation, business incubation and entrepreneurship issues. Mr. Azzioui was the coordinator of the Euro-Mediterranean Innovation Space (EMIS) task force. He was a country correspondent of Erawatch the European Commission’s information platform on European and third countries national and regional research and innovation systems and policies.

Mr Azzioui is an active member, advisor and mentor at Startup Maroc the leading NGO supporting innovative startups in Morocco. He is also a mentor at The Moroccan banch of The Silico Valley accelerator called The Founder Institute He was an elected board Member of Middle East and North Africa Incubators Network (MENAinc) and a member of the international network called Science Parks and Innovation Centers Experts (SPICE group).

In EMNES, he contributes to the research area on private sector development and leads the entrepreneurship survey.

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Abdelhak Azzouzi

Abdelhak Azzouzi is a founding member; member of the Board of Directors of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez. He is a Moroccan Professor of international relations and political science, an academic and scholar. He has founded and chaired several development and

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research centers and institutions, including the Schools of Hope Association and the Moroccan Center for Interdisciplinary Strategic and International Studies (CMIESI). CMIESI has contributed to establishing a number of global forums, producing internationally-acclaimed publications and creating development programs with an international dimension. Pr Abdelhak Azzouzi holds a diploma in Political Science and International Relations from the Institute of Political Science in Toulouse and a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Toulouse. He is an Advisory Member of several international organizations, and has received a number of international awards and decorations. Moreover, he Head the Mediterranean Award for Thought. Pr. Azzouzi has produced several acclaimed publications including: Why have the Arabs Failed while Others have Advanced? The Roots of Tyranny and the Seeds of the Renaissance (2018). He supervised the publication of the 2012 and 2013 editions of the Moroccan Yearbook of Strategy and International Relations published by L’Harmattan in Arabic, English and French, and nine volumes on cultural diversity and the alliance of civilizations in 2010. In addition, Pr. Azzouzi has also authored a book in French on authoritarianism and the mechanisms of democratic transition in the Arab Maghreb countries.

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Antonio Bayeh

Antonio Bayeh holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Grenoble Alpes, France. He is currently Assistant Professor of Finance at ESDES, and lecturer at IAE School of Management. In addition, he is an active member of many international research networks. Prior to joining ESDES, Antonio was a lecturer at the Lebanese University and a lecturer and research assistant at the University of Grenoble Alpes.

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His visiting research stay were at Concordia University (John Molson School of Business), at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and Cardiff Metropolitan University in the UK. His research interests are financial economics, risk management, bank competition, and structured finance. Antonio has presented his research papers at several international conferences. Antonio speaks French, Arabic and English.

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Rihab Bellakhal

Dr Rihab Bellakhal is an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Methods at Tunis Graduate School of Business, University of Manouba. She holds a Ph.D in Economics from University of Tunis El Manar and University Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne. She is associate researcher at ITCEQ.

Her research interests include economics of education, labor markets and micro-econometrics.

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Her research papers are published in scientific journals such as British Journal of Industrial Relations and Economics Bulletin.

In EMNES, Dr Rihab Bellakhal contributes to the research activity on human capital, migration and labor markets.

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Othmane Benmoussa

Pr. Othmane Benmoussa joined the Euromed University of Fes in January 2019. He is currently the director of the Euromed Institute of Technology (EIT). In addition to his experience in the academic area in Switzerland and Morocco, Pr. Benmoussa has over 15 years industry work

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experience as a senior executive director in strategy, logistics, transportation, real estate, and purchasing for many Moroccan and international public and private organizations in banking and transportation.

Civil engineer, Pr. Benmoussa has also earned in 2003 a Ph.D in transportation, logistics, supply chain management, and breakthrough project management both from the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – Lausanne), as well as a postgraduate diploma in transportation economics and modelling from the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and an advanced certificate for executives in Management, Innovation, and Technology from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Boutaina Bensalem

Boutaïna Bensalem is a professor in the School of Politics at the University Mohamed V of Agdal-Rabat and associate Researcher at IAV. She holds a Ph.D. in Civilisations from the University of Bordeaux-Montaigne. Much of her work focuses on International relations, History and politics.

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Miss Bensalem is a member of CEMMC research laboratory.

She specially writes and lectures on Morocco politics and History, MENA Security, Media and Politics and Gender and Politics in Morocco.

In EMNES, she contributes to the research area on institutions and institutional reforms.

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Marwa Biltagy

A Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economics, Cairo University, Egypt, the head of the International Relations Office, FEPS and a member of the committee of the International accreditation, FEPS. She received the prize of Best M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses in Cairo University in 2005 and 2010.

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Furthermore, she has got the Encouragement Prize from Cairo University in the field of Humanities and Educational Sciences in 2016.

She has got many awards from Cairo University for Outstanding Scientific Publishing in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 respectively. She is a member in several professional Associations, for example, American Economic Association (AEA), Middle East Economic Association (MEEA), International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFE). She has many publications in prestigious international journals.

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Nabil Boubrahimi

Nabil Boubrahimi is Professor at Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra Morocco since 2011.He is associate researcher with EUMF. He holds a PhD in economics with a focus on Macroeconomics and International Trade. He is an associate researcher at the Royal Institute of strategic Studies

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(IRES) and a senior consultant for different international organizations such as the African Development Bank and the United Nations African Economic Commission (CEA).

In EMNES he contributes to the research area on macroeconomic policy and employment in Morocco.

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Demeh Daradkah

Demeh Daradkah is an Associate Professor at the department of  Banking and finance, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Yarmouk University, Jordan. She holds a PhD in Banking and Finance Sciences from Department of Economics and Statistics,

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University of Udine., Italy. she has published numerous articles in internationally refereed academic journals. . Her Research Interest areas includes: Banking, Insurance, Innovation and Islamic Finance.

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Iyad Dhaoui

Iyad Dhaoui is a researcher at the department of social studies at the Tunisian Institute of Competitiveness and Quantitative Studies. He received a Phd’s degree in Economics from the University of Sfax, Tunisia. He is interested in conducting economic and social studies relating

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notably to the development perspectives and to the issues inscribed in the development plans as well as studies of the impacts of policies, social and economic reforms.

He is also interested in conducting studies concerning the social aspects of development of Tunisia such as the contribution of human resources of growth and evaluation and policy analysis of employment and income distribution and follow-up of the most important determinants of population growth, health system and social coverage system and analysis of their implications in the economic and social fields.

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Hafsa El Bekri

Hafsa EL BEKRI is an Assistant Professor at the Euromed Business School of The Euromed University of Fez. She holds a PhD in international Economics from the University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah of Fes and a master’s degree in international trade from Ecole Nationale de Commerce et de Gestion (ENCG). She is currently preparing a postgraduate diploma in economics at the Oxford University.

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Hafsa is a research-fellow at the Research Institute for Europeans, Mediterranean and African Studies RIEMAS and a member of expert board of the Institut Marocain d’Intelligence Stratégique IMIS.

Her research interests include south-south economic relations, spatial dynamics of capitalism, trade and investment policies in Africa, and global value chains.

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Alia El-Mahdi

Alia El-Mahdi , Ph.D.  Professor of Economics in Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Cairo University, and CEO of Egypols. As head of Egypols she contributed in leading policy research supporting different ministries as well as national authorities, private sector companies

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and international organizations. El Mahdi was the ex-Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences (2008-2011), previously the Director of the Center of Economic and Financial Research and Studies (2005- 2008) and the Vice president of MSA University (2004-2005).

Area of specialization is in the fields of labor market studies, especially the informal labor market, and the Micro and Small Enterprises dynamics and performance, as well as several research studies on the macroeconomic fiscal, monetary and trade policies, FDI, industrial policies, education, social protection in Egypt and the Arab countries.

El Mahdi has published numerous articles and chapters in books published internationally as well as regionally and in Egypt.  She also led numerous research projects in various fields of socio-economic research.

She contributed in drafting and revising the Labor Law 2003, the MSEs Law 2004 and the Social Insurance Law2010. She is currently working on drafting the new tax law for MSEs..

In the last fifteen to twenty years, she led teams of researchers and conducted over 30 socio-economic surveys for different domestic agencies/ ministries and research centers as well international organizations.

She acted and still acts as consultant and policy advisor to several ministries and international organization such as ILO, UNDP, UNICEF, WB, ADB, UNIDO, Brookings Institute, ESCWA, JAICA, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, GIZ, Arab Labor Organization, WFP, MSMEDA, UNHABITAT,,,,,etc.

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Asmaa M. Ezzat

Dr. Asmaa M. Ezzat is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) at the Economics Department in Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University. Asmaa got her Ph.D. in Economics in 2015, with a joint supervision from FEPS and Institute of Law and Economics in Hamburg

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University, under the title “on the Nexus between Constitutional Rules, Corruption and Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis”. She got her M.A. in Economics in 2011, in which she studied the impact of corruption on economic growth in developing countries. She worked as a part-time researcher in Ministry of Planning in Egypt for three years, and as a research assistant for many Professors of Economics Department in different projects. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. Her research interests include institutional economics, development economics, law and economics, economics of corruption and econometrics. She has some international publications on Institutions and institutional quality.

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Chamsa Fendri

Chamsa Fendri is an assistant professor at ESDES Business School. She holds a PhD in finance from the University of Grenoble Rhone Alpes (France). Her research focuses on banking regulation, family firms governance and performance and digital learning assessment. She speaks French, English and Arabic.

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Yeganeh Forouheshfar

Yeganeh Forouheshfar, holds a PhD in economics from Université Paris-Dauphine since 2017. Her thesis is entitled “Financial sector development, economic growth and demography in MENA region”. She holds a master’s in international economics from Université Paris-Dauphine

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and another master’s in applied mathematics jointly from Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University and Ecole Polytechnique. She is a member of LEDa-Dial research unit in Paris-Dauphine University. Her research interest is on Economic Modeling, Macroeconomics, Financial markets, Growth and Demographic change. In addition to research and teaching activities she is also involved in the organization of an annual conference on Pension, insurance and savings.

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Monia Ghazali

Monia is assistant Professor at ESSECT, University of Tunis and is associate researcher at Laboratory of Applied Economics and Finance at IHEC. She received her Ph.D. in Economics at the Paris Dauphine University. The thesis title is “the impact of trade openness on wage

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inequality between skilled and unskilled workers in developing countries: the case of Tunisia”.  Monia holds a master’s degree in International Economics from Paris Dauphine University (top student) and a Bachelor degree in High business studies from IHEC Carthage. She has published many academic papers in referred journals. Her research interests regard labor market, wage inequality and structural change. In EMNES, she contributes to the research on private sector development.

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Mohamed Goaied

Mohamed Goaied is a Professor of Economics and Statistics at the college of Business and Economics, at Qatar University and IHEC, University of Carthage in Tunis. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics from University of Dijon, France. He has carried out

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research and consulting activities in the field of Development economics (Fiscal reforms, Demand Systems, Poverty and Inequality Analysis), Industrial Economics (Measurement of Efficiency and Productivity analysis) and Labor Economics (Inclusive growth and employment creation). He is a Fellow at the Economic Research Forum for Mena region and a member of the National Statistics council in Tunisia. He is senior researcher and co-coordinator of the Research Area on macro-economic policies and employment.

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Willem Pieter de Groen

Willem Pieter is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Financial Markets and Institutions Unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels. He has (co)-authored several studies on EU and Near East banking regulation, as well as diversity in bank ownership and business models, small and medium-sized enterprises obstacles to growth and access to finance.

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Willem Pieter has further extensive experience in gathering and analyzing data, e.g. product prices, executive compensation, financial performance, and structure. Willem Pieter is further member of the Bank Resolution Panel of the European Parliament and visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium).

 

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Sinda Hadhri

Sinda Hadhri is an assistant professor at ESDES Business School. She holds a PhD in finance from the « Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis » Tunisia. Her research focuses on financial economics, behavioral finance, portfolio management, asset pricing and energy finance. She speaks French, English and Arabic.

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Mahmoud Hailat

Mahmoud Ali Hailat holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology, a Bachelor’s in Economics & Business Administration from Yarmouk University, a Master’s degree in Development Economics and International Cooperation from Read More

University of Rome – TorVergata, and a Ph.D in Economics from University of Rome – TorVergata. He worked as Assistant Professor at German Jordanian University between 2011 and 2013, and has worked for Yarmouk University in Jordan since 2013. He was the Head of Department of Economics at Yarmouk University between 2016 and 2018. His research is mainly focused on development economics, micro-analysis, and macroeconomic policies’ impacts.

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Taghreed Hassouba

Taghreed Hassouba is an assistant professor in Economics Department, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences from where she got her Ph.D. Degree. Her thesis title is: “Credit Risk Management according to Basel II Accord with an Application on the Egyptian

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Banking sector” with an overall grade of Excellent. Her recent publication’s list includes: –  Elsaayed S., Samak ,N., and Hassouba ,T. (2014). Basel II and Credit Risk Management in Banking Sector: Applied study on the Egyptian Case. Research Papers Series. Economics Department. Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences.

In EMNES, she contributes to the research area on finance.

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Dorra Mezzez Hmaied

Dorra Mezzez Hmaied is a full Professor of Finance at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (IHEC) – Carthage. She is in charge of the Finance Department and the Master of Research in Finance at the same institution. She has a PHD of the Paris Dauphine University.

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Her main research is on Banking and Financial markets in Tunisia published in Review of Middle East Economics and Finance ; Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, The International Journal of Business and Finance Research ; Journal of Money, Investment and Banking ; The Journal of Private Equity, etc.

In EMNES, she is team leader and contributes to the research area  on finance.

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Sami Ben Jabeur

Sami Ben Jabeur is an associate professor at ESDES Business School (Lyon, France). He obtained his Ph.D. degree in finance in 2011 at the University of Toulon-Var. His main research fields are bankruptcy prediction, machine learning models and environmental modelling.

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He has published in different academic journals, such as Journal of the Operational Research Society, Finance Research Letters, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Environmental Modeling & Assessment, Environmental and Resource Economics and other ranked journals.

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Yasmine Kamal

Yasmine Kamal is an Assistant Lecturer at Economics department, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University.She is currently working on her PhD thesis entitled “The impact of Technical Barriers to Trade on Export Margins: Evidence from Egypt’s

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Firm-Level Data”, to be defended in 2019.

She got her MSc in 2015, with thesis entitled “Determinants of Export Diversification: An Empirical Application on the Egyptian Economy”. Since 2012, she has been teaching courses of International Economics, Money and Banking, Microeconomics, and Macroeconomics. Her research interests are International Trade and Macroeconomics.

Her recent publication is Kamal, Y. and Zaki, C. (2018).  How Do Technical Barriers to Trade Affect Exports? Evidence from Egyptian Firm-Level Data.  Journal of Economic Integration, 33(4), 659-721.

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Soumaya Ben Khelifa

Soumaya Ben Khelifa, is Assistant Professor in Finance at IHEC. She holds a PhD d in Finance from IHEC Carthage in Tunisia in April 2016. Her areas of research are: Asset Pricing, Hedge Funds, International Finance, Market Finance.

In EMNES she contributes to the research area on finance.

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Wajdi Kthiri

Wajdi Kthiri, Ph D in Economics, is Chief Economist and Vice Director in the Central Direction of Social Studies at the Tunisian Institute of Competitiveness and Quantitative Studies. He conducts studies analyzing labour market trends at national, local, sectoral and occupational

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levels, as well as carrying out specific research for relationship between education and employment. He is currently a member of the technical committee responsible for developing the National Employment Strategy. He participates in the achievement of studies on the Tunisian labor market within the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Economic Studies projects. He published several studies in the website of ITCEQ, in the International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences and “Revue Valaque d’Etudes Economiques”.

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Sara Loukili

Sara Loukili is an associate researcher and a PhD candidate in Development Economics affiliated to the PSL Research University, IRD, LEDa and DIAL. Her research focuses on the medium and long run effects of demographic changes on economic growth, policies for the labor market, social protection regimes and gender issues. Sara holds a MA. in International Economics from Paris Dauphine University and BA. In Political Science with a minor in Gender Studies.

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Sohail Magableh

Sohail Magableh is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Yarmouk University since September 2013 till now. He is also Assistant Dean for quality assurance of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences since February 2019 till now. He worked as

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the Senior Economic Advisor at the Oman Capital Market Authority (CMA) for 6 years (2007–2013). Dr. Magableh holds a PhD in Economics from University of Western Sydney, Australia. Previously, he was an assistant professor of Economics at the Hashemite University (2002-2007). Prior to pursuing his PhD study, Magableh worked as an Economic Researcher at the United Nations Development Program, and he also worked as a tutor and part-time lecturer at Yarmouk University & University of Western Sydney. His expertise over 20 years covers various areas, such as research, teaching, consultations, public sector, executive experience & management, training and capital markets.

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Markos Magdy

Markos Magdy is an assistant lecturer at the Economics Department, Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University, where he obtained his bachelor’s degree in 2015. After his graduation, he has worked as a research assistant at the Egyptian Center

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for Economic Studies (ECES) for one year. He got his MSc in Economics, in February 2019, from FEPS, under the supervision of Prof. Chahir Zaki with a thesis entitled: “Natural Gas Demand Analysis: The Case of Egypt”. Since July 2017, he has been working as an academic coordinator for the Master Program in Law and Economics of the Arab Region (MLEA). His main fields of interests are macroeconomics and energy economics. 

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Rania Makni

Dr. Rania Makni is an assistant professor at the Institutes of High Commercial Studies (IHEC). She has been a member of the HEC Finance research team since 2011, conducting extensive quantitative studies in research fields related to finance and participating to

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international conferences. She published in renowned scientific journals. Rania research interests are in the areas of financial markets, international finance. She holds a Ph.D. degree in management sciences from the Institutes of High Commercial Studies IHEC, Tunis.

In EMNES, she contributes to the research area on finance.

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Abdelkader Ait El Mekki

Prof. Abdelkader Ait El Mekki is professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics, the National School of Agriculture in Meknes (ENA) and Associate professor at Agronomic and Veterinarian Institute Hassan II (IAV), Rabat, Morocco. He has expertise in agricultural value chain

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analysis, international trade, quantitative policy analysis and rural development economics. He has been team leader or Agroeconomist member of  research projects and studies funded by the EU, the World Bank, USAID, IFAD, UNDP, FAO, GIZ and the Moroccan government.

In EMNES, as a senior researcher, Pr. Ait El Mekki contributes to the research area on regional integration for the case of Morocco.

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Myriam Ramzy Michel

Ms. Myriam Ramzy Michel is currently an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. In 2005, she graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science with a major in economics and minor in statistics.

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Since 2006, she has been working as an Assistant Lecturer in the French Section and teaching many courses in Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Money and Banking, Mathematical Economics, International Economics, and National Accounts. In 2011, she obtained her Master’s degree in economics, with her thesis entitled “The Role of Innovation in Creating the Knowledge-Based Economy”. She is currently working on her PhD thesis and supposed to be defending it in 2018, with her thesis entitled “The Impact of Environmental Regulations on International Trade for the Most Important Agricultural Commodities between the European Union and Middle East and North Africa Countries”. Her recent publication is Ramzy, M. and Zaki, C. (2018). “Do Environmental Matter for EU-MENA Trade?”, Applied Economics, (forthcoming). Her main fields of interests are International Trade and Environmental Economics.

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Nahed Taha Hassan Zeini Mohamed

Nahed Taha is currently an Assistant Lecturer at the Socio-Computing Department, Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University, Egypt. She received her master’s degree in socio-computing in July 2015. In addition to her master’s degree

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, she has a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science with major specialization of Statistics and minor of Socio-Computing in 2011.
She is also a researcher at the FEPS Business Incubator (FEPS BI), Cairo University. She conducts surveys and reports in the field of “Innovation and Entrepreneurship” and related topics.
Her research interests are in the areas of entrepreneurships and innovation, innovation diffusion and Social Dynamics and Governance.
In EMNES, as a junior researcher, she contributes to the research area on Private Sector, Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MSMEs), and Entrepreneurship.

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Hela Nammouri

Hela Namouri is an assistant professor at ESDES. She holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Paris Saclay. Her thesis deals with the stock market returns’ exposure to investor sentiment using time-series and panel switching regime models. Her research themes also focus on Agent-based modeling and network theory. Her research works have been published in international journals. Hela speaks French, Arabic and English.

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Hanan Nazier

Hanan Nazier is an associate professor at the Economics Department, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She received her Ph.D. in Economics, in November 2009 at Cairo University under the direction of Professor Ahmed Ghoniem. Her research interest is

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applied econometrics, precisely, application on Human development and labor economics in Egypt and developing countries in general. She has published her research articles in different international peer-reviewed journals, including Middle Eastern Finance and Economics Journal, Advances in Management and Applied Economics, International Research Journal of Finance and Economics, and European Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science.

In EMNES, she contributes to the research on institutions and institutional reforms.

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Sylvain Ouattara

Sylvain K. Ouattara is an assistant professor at ESDES Business School (Lyon). He holds a PHD in economics from the university of Normandy. He is a microeconomist publishing in top tier journals on the fields of industrial organization, regulation policy and public firms. He speaks French and English.

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Sadek Ouhadouch

Sadek Ouhadouch is an assistant professor at Esdes Business School Lyon. He holds a PhD in accounting and control from the University of Clermont Auvergne. His research focuses on family firms on the quality of the financial information and income management, and firm’s governance. He speaks French, Arabic and French.

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Racha Ramadan

Racha Ramadan is an Associate professor at the Economics Department, Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University and economic Research Forum Researcher. She got her Ph.D. in Economics, in April 2010, from Toulouse School of Economics,

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under the supervision of Professor Alban Thomas.  During her stay in France, she worked as teaching assistant in Toulouse University (Université Toulouse 1-Capitole) and as research assistant in Toulouse Business School. In 2008, She worked as research assistant in International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, D.C. Since 2010, She worked as an economic consultant for different international organizations such as the UNDP-Regional Office in Cairo, World Bank, UN-ESCWA, UN-FAO, IFAD and UNESCO.  She was a visiting scholar at Hamburg University in Germany (2012), at Chicago University Center in Paris (2013) and at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Minnesota University in USA (2014). She is a member of the Associate Editorial Board of New Medit- A Mediterranean Journal of Economics, Agriculture and Environment (2018), a fellow of the Summer Program in Social Science (SPSS) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2018-2019) and laureate of the Programme Femme d’Avenir en Méditerranée- Sciences Po Paris (2016). She is the academic coordinator of the FEPS team in the Euro Mediterranean Network for Economic Studies (EMNES). She has several papers published in peer reviewed journals as Review of Income and Wealth (ROIW), Middle East Development Journal (MEDJ), Food Policy and New Medit- A Mediterranean Journal of Economics, Agriculture and Environment. Her research interests include applied micro-econometrics on poverty, food security, gender and human development in Egypt and other developing countries.

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Saker Sabkha

Saker Sabkha, PhD. in Finance, is currently a Lecturer at the faculty of Economics and Management and researcher at LEGO Laboratory, University of South Brittany. In addition to research and teaching activities, he is the director of studies for the master’s degree in banking and finance.

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His research interest is in derivatives markets, financial contagion phenomena, efficiency hypothesis and spillover effects. Saker Sabkha has co-authored several papers on the dynamic behavior of the worldwide sovereign Credit Default Swaps markets. For his research work, he received the 2019 thesis prize in management sciences in Paris from the national association in economics and management.

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Iheb Sammoud

Iheb Sammoud is Chief Economist at the Tunisian Institute of Competitiveness and Quantitative Studies. He holds his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Bordeaux. The thesis title is “Evolution of FDI in Tunisia: determinants and effects on growth”. His researches Read More

include international trade, foreign direct investment and global value chains. He published several studies in the website of the ITCEQ.        

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Serena Sandri

Serena Sandri is Professor at the Business School of German Jordanian University, department of Logistics. She is member of the Euro Mediterranean Network for Economic Studies (EMNES) and expert member of the Euro Mediterranean Economists Association (EMEA). She is currently the scientific coordinator for Jordan for the PRIMA funded project “Boosting the Nexus Framework Implementation in the Mediterranean” (BONEX). Before joining GJU in 2012, she worked at the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management of Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. She received her PhD from the Technische Universität Dresden in 2007. Her main fields of expertise are behavioral economics and entrepreneurship, with a strong focus on environmental issues.

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Seifallah Sassi

Seifallah Sassi is an assistant professor of economics at University of Jendouba (Tunisia) and member of Laboratory of Applied Economics and Finance at the IHEC – University of Carthage (Tunisia). In this position, Sassi teaches and conducts research on macroeconomics. He holds a

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Ph.D in Economics from Aix-Marseille University (France). He has carried out research and consulting activities in the field of Economics modelling and Development Economics. He has published numerous articles internationally refereed academic journals. His research and publications focus on issues involving growth and development, labour economics, applied economics and macroeconomic modeling.

In EMNES, Seifallah Sassi contributes to the research area on macro-economic policies and employment. He is in charge to compile a database that includes sectoral data essentially employment and value added and he assist senior economist in order to prepare a comprehensive status reports that identify the trends of macroeconomic indicators, survey on employment policies and an assessment on the ability of Tunisian sectors to generate employment opportunities.

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Nesreen Seleem

Nesreen Seleem is an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She is currently a PhD student at Cairo University, writing her thesis, under the supervision of Prof. Laila El Khawaga and Dr. Chahir Zaki, on fiscal sustainability and the

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conduct of monetary policy in Egypt.

In addition to her research and teaching activities, Nesreen is also the assistant coordinator of cooperation program between the Faculty of Economics and Political Science and the United-Nations Children’s Funds – UNICEF Egypt and has previously collaborated with the Institute of Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg serving as the academic coordinator of the first double-degree Master program in Law and Economics in Egypt between Cairo University and the University of Hamburg.

Nesreen holds a B.A. in Economics and a MSc. in Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. Her research interests include monetary and fiscal policy, applied time series econometrics, and macroeconomic policies of the MENA region.

In EMNES, she contributes to the research on macroeconomic policies and employment.

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Mohamed Larbi Sidmou

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Larbi Sidmou is currently  Professor of Economics and Management at the University of Cadi Ayyad and Senior Researcher at EUMF. From 2007 to 2011, he was  Vice-president of the University Cadi Ayyad in Morocco. He acted as Head of the Department of

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Economics from 1997 to 1998 and he was Head of the Department of Management from 1999 to 2000. He is the Founding Director of the Laboratory Quality and Marketing L-QUALIMAT. He is member of EDIMAP Network the Moroccan Association of Quality and Management and the Reading Committee of Marrakesh Law Faculty Journal. He supervised and assisted over 30 doctoral theses and published several articles and books. He holds a Phd in Economics and Agro-industrial and Food Management obtained at Montpellier I in 1987. He obtained his MSc diploma at l’Institut Agronomique Meditrraneen de Montpellier. In EMNES Prof. Sidmou is the scientific leader of the EUMF team and is involved in the research on the private sector.

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Mounia Slighoua

Mounia Slighoua is since January 2017 an assistant professor at the Euro-Mediterranean University of Fez (UEMF). She has taken part in teaching multiple courses such as “Introduction to Law”, “Introduction to Islamic Law”, “International Law”, and “Geopolitics and Strategy”.

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Mounia SLIGHOUA holds a PhD in Comparative Law from the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole since July 2016. Her thesis published at Editions Européennes Universitaires focused on women’s rights in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. She has also completed at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane in 2009 a Bachelor in International Studies and International Cooperation and Development with a minor in Business Administration. Her Bachelor’s capstone project was on the Moroccan National Initiative of Human Development. She has further pursued her interest in this topic through her Master’s thesis on development paradigms in the context of the global crises with a focus on the agricultural sector in Morocco. In 2012, she obtained her Master’s in International Studies and Diplomacy and American Studies from Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane. Her research fields of interest include migration, human development and sustainability, women’s rights and social entrepreneurship.

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Moez Ben Tahar

Moez Ben Tahar is assistant professor of economics at Faculty of Economics and Management, Sousse University, Tunisia and associate researcher at LEFA research centre at HEC Carthage and. He holds his PhD in Economics from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis.

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He’s the author of numerous scientific articles covering several topics such as business cycle, stabilization policies, workers’ remittances, inclusive growth, financial integration. ),

He is member of several research programs (European Commission, FEMISE, ERF, RIAD, IDRC and more).

In EMNES, he contributes to the research areas on institutions and institutional reforms and labor markets.

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Jamel Trabelsi

Jamel Trabelsi is currently Director of the Research Laboratory in Applied Economics and Finance, University of Carthage Tunisia. He is Professor of business economics and econometrics at the University of Strasbourg and IHEC Carthage. He holds a PhD in

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Mathematical Economics and Econometrics at the High Studies School in Social Sciences (EHESS Paris) in 1993. He has been guest professor at Virginia, USA and Galatasaray, Turkey Universities. He has published articles in different academic journals such as International Journal of Finance and Economics, International Economic Journal, Economic Modelling, Journal of historical economics, revue économique and Applied Economics and Finance. He has also published two books: «Higher Education in the Arab World”, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2017 and “Principes d’Économétrie”, Pearson Edition. October 2012. He has also lead and participated to different studies and research projects for national, regional and international institutions. In EMNES, he is co-leading the research area on human capital, education, innovation and migration.

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Heba M. Zaki

Dr. Heba M. Zaki has earned her B.SC. Major economics and minor in social science computing with honor. She earned her M.Sc. in economics with excellent degree in 2004, by submitting a thesis entitled ” Testing the Purchasing Power Parity for the Egyptian Pound Exchange Rate Read More

from 1991-1999: Co-integration and Artificial Neural Networks.”

Dr. Zaki earned her Ph.D. in Social Science Computing in 2012 with excellent degree, for the thesis entitled “The Theoretical and Applied frameworks for the transition Conditions to Knowledge Society.”

Dr. Zaki is currently teaching for undergraduate and post graduate students, many subjects some of which are: information Infra structure, Social network Analysis, Application of sociocomputing in modern information societies.

Dr. Zaki founded FEPS Business Incubator in December 2016- the first Business incubator in Cairo university- and she is currently its executive Director since February 2017. She also Ex- Advisory board member of Micro Small, Medium enterprise agency- Ministry of trade since June 2017 till December 2018. She   used to be the head of Communication unit of the faculty of Economics & Political Science from Jan 2015 till April 2017,   as well as The head of ALUMNI and Recruitment unit, since July 2015 till April 2017.

Her Research Interests vary between different disciplines reflecting her interdisciplinary background. Some of her main research interests are:Knowledge Society & Innovation, Knowledge Economies ,Entrepreneurship, & micro finance, Socio Cybernetics, Internet Studies, &Social Network Analysis

Dr. Zaki has received a variety of specialized training courses and workshops in Incubator management ( USAID), Pre- Incubation Entrepreneurship program ( Babson College Executive Program),  Technology commercialization( UN ESCWA), Governmental and Institutional  Decision Support Systems: Economic Track ( EU TEMPUS project), Project Mangement( DAAD).

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Habib Zitouna

Habib Zitouna was the General Director of the Tunisian Institute of Competitiveness and Quantitative Studies (ITCEQ) part of the Ministry of Development, Investment and International Cooperation. He is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and

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Management of Nabeul, member of the Research Unit MASE (University of Carthage), and General Secretary of the Tunisian Association of Economists (ASECTU). He holds a PhD in International Economics at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2004. His research activities are linked to International Economics (International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, Trade Policy and Environment). He has published articles in different academic journals such as the Journal of International Economics, International Economics, Review of International Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Applied Economics or the Journal of Economic Integration. He has also participated to different studies and research projects for national, regional and international institutions. In EMNES, he is the administrative and scientific leader of the ITCEQ team and he contributes to the research on trade economics.

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