Abdelrahman Nagy

American University in Cairo

Abdelrahman Nagy is the director of the J-PAL initiative at AUC and is based in Cairo, Egypt. He is working on various research projects focusing on improving small and medium businesses’ access to export markets and market information, youth employment, female labour force participation, job attributes, improving teaching quality, and microlending. Before joining J-PAL, AbdelRahman worked with several international and Egyptian organizations such as Misr El Kheir Foundation, Save the Children, Span Consultancy and others. He also worked as a Research Manager in a project funded by the Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) from 2009 to 2015. Abdelrahman holds a Master of International and Comparative Education with Policy concentration from the American University in Cairo, Master’s in quality and Statistical Control from Cairo University, postgraduate diplomas in Public Policy, Child Rights, and Economics from Cairo University, and has received a Community Development Leaders fellowship from the State Department to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.