Magda Kandil is the current Executive Director and Director of Research of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES). Previously, she worked with the IMF where she held the positions of Advisor to the Executive Director and Senior Economist. She was also a visiting scholar at the IMF Institute and Research Department. Dr. Kandil has undertaken several academic and professional activities at various institutions, including the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Washington State University, Southern Illinois University and the Justus-Liebig Universitat, Giessen, Germany.
Dr. Kandil received several awards, including three citations of excellence for the highest quality rating by ANBAR Electronic Intelligence. In 2000, she was ranked 344th among the top 500 economists in the world. She is member of the American Economic Association, Canadian Economic Association, Arab Society for Economic Research, and the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran, and Turkey (ERF), where she was elected as the first woman chair of ERF research fellows.
She has published extensively on various topics such as debt accumulation, public spending, price flexibility, exchange rate fluctuations, and macroeconomic policies. Dr. Kandil received her Ph.D. in economics from the Washington State University, Pullman, Washington.

Omneia Helmy is currently the Deputy Director of Research and Lead Economist at the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) as well as professor of economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain; in addition to her appointment as affiliate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA.
Dr. Helmy is a member of the Egyptian Society for Political Economy, Statistics and Legislation and Egypt’s Scientific Research Academy. She has undertaken several professional activities at various prominent organizations including the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the Center for Economic and Financial Research and Studies at Cairo University.
Her areas of interest include international economics, trade policy, institutional economics, pension reform in Egypt, in addition to macro- and microeconomic analysis. Dr. Helmy earned her Ph.D. in economics from Cairo University.

Malak Reda is a senior economist at ECES. She has authored several publications on topics such as banking efficiency, economic development and finance. She earned her PH.D. in business administration from the Maastricht School of Management (MSM).

Tarek El-Ghamrawy is an economist at ECES. His areas of interest include international economics, macroeconomics and economics of growth. He earned his M.A. in international economics from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Sara Al-Nashar is an economist at ECES. Her areas of interest include public finance and open-economy macro. She earned a Master’s degree in Economics from Cairo University, as well as an M.A. in Policy Economics from Williams College, USA.