Education:
04/05 Ph.D. in Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, USA. Thesis title ‘Vertical Integration in the Egyptian garment sector’, the thesis was based on a survey I commissioned and managed; the data are archived by the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research (

Research Interest:
Industrial Organization Institutional Economics Industrial Economics Labor Market Gender Economics

Recent Publications:
El-Haddad, A. (2015), Breaking the Shackles: The Structural Challenge of Growth and Transformation for Egypt's Industrial Sector, in Structural Transformation and Industrial Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey and Case Studies, Vol. 2 & 3, European Investment Bank mytop El-Haddad, A., (2010), “Egypt versus South Korea: divergent paths to industrialization,” in Role of the State in a Mixed Economy, (Abdallah Shehata, Ed.) Cairo: Partners in Development (PID).