Autor: Ishac Diwan

Ishac Diwan is currently affiliated with Dauphine University and the Paris School of Economics in France, and is a research fellow at the Economic Research Forum where he directs its political economy programmes. His recent books include A Political Economy of the Middle East (co-authored, 2015), and Understanding the Political Economy of the Arab Uprisings (2014). Ahmed Galal is Managing Director of the Economic Research Forum. He was Egypt”s Finance Minister in 2013. Before that, he held various positions at the World Bank for about 18 years. In 2000-2007, he was the Director of the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies. Galal holds a Ph D in Economics from Boston University, USA. He authored more than a dozen books and several journal articles.