Ahmed Elsayed
Ahmed Elsayed is an Associate Professor at the American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Executive Director of J-PAL MENA at AUC. In this capacity, he plays a crucial role in J-PAL MENA’s operations by providing strategic and technical oversight to research, policy outreach, and capacity-building activities. His role involves guiding the strategic direction and growth of the organization and cultivating partnerships with innovative policymakers across the MENA region to foster evidence generation and usage.
Before joining AUC and J-PAL in 2022, Ahmed spent eight years at IZA and held various positions in the institute including co-coordinating the research activities of the special program area “Gender, Growth, and Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries (G²LM|LIC)”.
He holds a PhD in Economics and MSc in Business Research from the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics in the Netherlands. Prior to PhD, Ahmed worked as a Researcher under the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Research Assistantship program.
His main research interests are in development economics, applied micro-econometrics, migration, and labour economics. He is particularly interested in the intersection between research and policy in the area of development economics.
Related Publications
G²LM|LIC Policy Brief No. 41
The Jobs of the World Database: A New Dataset on Labour Markets of Developing Countries
G²LM|LIC Synthesis Paper No. 12
Labour Market Effects of COVID-19 in Developing Countries and Policy Response
G²LM|LIC Working Paper No. 58
Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa
G²LM|LIC Working Paper No. 69
Economic Development and the Organisation of Labour: Evidence from the Jobs of the World Project