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Global Evidence for Egypt Conference: Using Evidence to Inform Decision-Making

Name: Global Evidence for Egypt Conference: Using Evidence to Inform Decision-Making
Start: 2023-01-15T12:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-01-15T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Moataz Al Alfi Hall

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Sun, Jan 15, 2023

12:30 PM – 5:30 PM (GMT+2)

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Moataz Al Alfi Hall

AUC Avenue, P.O. Box 74, New Cairo, 11835, Egypt

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Join J-PAL MENA at AUC for the upcoming Global Evidence for Egypt conference, which will focus on how evidence from randomized evaluations conducted globally can inform decision-making in Egypt. This conference is part of the Global Evidence for Egypt Spotlight Seminar Series, which brings together Egyptian policymakers and researchers in the J-PAL network to discuss how to tackle priority policy issues in Egypt. This conference is co-hosted by J-PAL Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at the American University in Cairo and UNICEF Egypt, supported by Allianz.

This event is open to AUC faculty and staff and members of the AUC alumni community only.

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Speakers

Ahmad Dallal

President

The American University in Cairo

AUC’s 13th President Ahmad S. Dallal is an accomplished academic leader and renowned scholar with U.S. and regional higher education expertise. Dallal is the former dean of Georgetown University in Qatar and served as provost at the American University of Beirut (AUB) from 2009 to 2015. A prominent scholar of Islamic studies, he has taught at AUB, Stanford University, Yale University, Smith College and Georgetown University, where he also served as chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Dallal’s leadership experience includes spearheading institutional transformations that have included everything from closing budget deficits and administrative process reforms to introducing key performance indicators and quality measures for academic programs and increasing scholarly production. Throughout his administrative experience, Dallal led the introduction of several dozen university policies, including overseeing Title lX compliance on discriminatory harassment. He also increased the socioeconomic diversity of the student body through scholarships and financial aid. With several decades of teaching, research and leadership at some of the top universities in the United States, Dallal is a seasoned expert on U.S.-style liberal arts universities and how they operate. Coupled with that is his extensive experience in the Middle East at both AUB and Georgetown University in Qatar.

Ahmed ElSayed

AUC School of Business Research Associate Professor and Director of Research

J-PAL MENA at AUC

Ahmed Elsayed is a Research Associate Professor of Economics at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Executive Director of J-PAL MENA at AUC. Before joining AUC, Ahmed was a Senior Researcher at the IZA- Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany. He was also the Deputy Director of the IZA’s research program, Gender, Growth and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries; (G²LM | LIC) and the research program Labor and Development Ahmed’s main research interests are labor, migration, and development economics. His work has been published in top academic journals, including, among others Journal of the Europen Economic Association, the European Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and the Journal of Population Economics. He also published 2021, an Oxford University Press book on opportunities and challenges of Labor markets in Low-Income Countries.