Racha Ramadan

Racha Ramadan is an assistant professor at the Economics Department, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She got her Ph.D. in Economics from Toulouse School of Economics in 2010. In 2008, she worked as research assistant in the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. Since 2010, She worked as an economic consultant for the UNDP, 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 laureate of the Programme Femme d’Avenir en Méditerranée- Sciences Po Paris (2016) and a fellow of the Summer Program in Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2018-2019). Her research interests include applied micro-econometrics on poverty, food security, gender and human development in Egypt and other developing countries.