I am a PhD student in Economics at CUNY Graduate Center. My research focuses on the role of government institutions in public investment and greening the economy. My interest and experience in economic research are demonstrated by a history of analytical work and technical data analysis. I have published working papers and participated in official IMF missions on these topics.
Better Public Investment in Low-income Countries - Overcoming Public Investment Management Bottlenecks, forthcoming, IMF Working Paper
Monitoring the Climate Impact of Fiscal Policy, October 2021, IMF Working Paper – Cited in: UN Emissions Gap Report 2021, UNDP Global Climate Public Finance Review 2022, , CAREC Institute Resilience and Economic Growth in Times of High Uncertainty 2022, UNDRR Tracking the money for climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction 2023
Fiscal Monitor, October 2020 - Policies for the Recovery
Crowding-in or Crowding-Out? Complementarity and Substitutability Between Public and Private Investment in Pakistan, August 2022, The Journal of Developing Areas
Strengthening Public Expenditure Efficiency: Investment and Social Spending in Bulgaria, December 2021, IMF Working Paper
Strengthening Infrastructure Governance for Climate-Responsive Public Investment, December 2021, IMF Working Paper
How to Manage Public Investment during a Postcrisis Recovery, July 2021, IMF Working Paper
Mastering the Risky Business of Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure, May 2021, IMF Working Paper
Developed a climate-impact assessment methodology for fiscal policies, resulting in a working paper and a presentation in the Fiscal Monitor.
Participated in IMF missions to Egypt and Nepal, evaluating their public investment management cycles and generating technical assistance reports with findings and recommendations.
Employed Excel, R, Stata, Python and SQL for data analysis, accessing and merging large databases from Dealogic, S&P Global, Orbis, and international organizations like UNDP, OECD, and ILO.
Assisted in the development of dashboards and analytics for a major retailer. I worked on designing reporting solutions for specific business problems. I utilized data from a variety of sources (internal and external). This included working with Tableau and SQL. I also became familiar with other data analysis tools.
Developed a demand forecasting and replenishment optimization module, and validated the value of the optimization process by running simulations across historical sales and historical inventory data. I presented the total savings in cost of holding inventory by simulating the optimal inventory strategy without incurring lost sales.
Selected, cleaned and compiled macroeconomic data into a dataset with 100,000 datapoints for a project investigating the relationship between public and private capital.
Drafted literature reviews on multiple relevant areas of macroeconomic research and conducted preliminary data analysis and visualization using Stata and R.
Completed data analysis for a project estimating the economic burden of Hepatitis C-associated diseases in Egypt and the impact of new low-cost treatment.
Managed a team of 8 writers and editors, including assigning topics, content editing, and proofreading for a bipartisan monthly printed publication
Worked closely with editorial team to develop monthly content strategy from pitch, to development through execution, ensuring a diverse representation of opinions represented
Thawra Ma’hash Beta’a (ثورة معهاش بطاقة) ‘Revolution Without An ID’ is a grassroots student movement born out of the Arab Spring aiming to the empowerment of youth in Egypt.
Built a grassroots movement in Egypt focused on the rights of students under the age of voting reaching over 50,000 members in one year
Organized meetings with government officials and representatives to negotiate improvements in freedom of expression and political education in schools
Coordinated work between a network of over 9,000 Arab translators, editors and writers residing in 35 countries around the world.
Led efforts to build an active Arabic digital content creation community that contributes directly and significantly to increasing the quality and quantity of Arabic content on the web.
Planned and organized collaborative projects with Twitter, Wikimedia Foundation, Khan Academy, TED and WhatsApp Inc.
Ensure that all written translations conform to the original text in terms of technicality and terminolog
An article I translated into Arabic about the potential benefits of the New Suez Canal project link
A Wikipedia article I wrote in 2016 about Andrew F. Hilyer link