Nelly Elmallakh

I am an Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist of the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa Region. I joined the World Bank in 2020, as part of the Young Fellowship Program on Forced Displacement (a joint program with UK Aid and UNHCR). Prior to joining the World Bank, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Paris School of Economics and the University of Strasbourg. I hold a Ph.D. in Economics and a Master's in Development Economics, both from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. 

My research interests include migration, development, labor economics, and political economy. My research has been published in Demography, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Population Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Development, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Studies, and Oxford University Press. My work received grants from the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the British Academy, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, the Agence Française de Développement, the Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International, and the Economic Research Forum.

I am also an accredited Assistant Professor of Economics in France and Italy and was appointed Assistant Professor of Economics at Cairo University from 2013 to 2020 (on leave). I received the French National Qualification as Assistant Professor of Economics in 2020 and the Italian National Qualification as Assistant Professor of Political Economy (13/A1) in 2022.

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Twitter: @NellyElmallakh

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