Education:
Prof. Sherine Al-Shawarby is a professor of economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science in Cairo University. She is currently the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Political Science for COmmunity Affairs and Environment Development, member of the Board of the National Planning Institute, member of the Board of Trustees of the Egyptian House of Zakat and Sadakat and of the Egyptian Center for Global Governance and Development, and a member in the Vision 2030 team. She also worked as the advisor of the President of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) for the Economic and Mobilization Statistics , Deputy Minister for Economic Justice and the Executive Director of the Economic Justice Unit at the Ministry of Finance between November 2013 and September 2014, during which she managed a plan to integrate the informal sector into the formal sector, and the development of a targeting mechanism of individual poor which has been used by the Ministry of Social Solidarity to reach the target families in its two new cash transfer programs: Takafol (Solidarity) and Karama (Dignity). Prior to that, Al-Shawarbywas a Senior Economists at the World Bank office in Cairo between June 2001 and July 2013. During this period, she co-authored many of the reports on the performance of the Egyptian economy, and on poverty, inequality, and efficient subsidy system in Egypt and in MENA region. She also worked as advisor to a number of international, regional and national organizations, including: the World Food Program, the World Bank, the US Agency for International Development, the Social Fund for Development, the Center for Research and Economic Studies, the Institute of National Planning. Al-Shawarby has published numerous researches that cover a wide range of economic issues in Egypt: the exchange rate, trade, inflation, fiscal sustainability, subsidies, poverty, and inequality.

Research Interest:
Macroeconomics Poverty and equity

Recent Publications:
Sherine AL-Shawarby and Noha S. Omar, Evolution and Implementation of Macroeconometric Modeling: A Roadmap for INP’s Modeling Unit. The Egyptian Journal for Development and Planning, Vol. 32, No. 1, March 2024. Sherine AL-Shawarby, Noha S. Omar, and Nour K. Abou-Ismail, 2024. Integrating Refugees and Asylum Seekers into Egypt’s National Social Assistance Program, a paper as part of a project conducted in collaboration with UNICEF, ILO, ERF, and other international partners. Manuscript in preparation for publication, forthcoming. Sherine AL-Shawarby, Dina A. Fattah, and Nour K. Abou-Ismail, 2024. Integrating Refugees and Asylum Seekers into Egypt’s Universal Health Insurance System, a paper as part of a project conducted in collaboration with UNICEF, ILO, ERF, and other international partners. Manuscript in preparation for publication, forthcoming. The “Tamween” Food Subsidy System in Egypt: Evolution and Recent Implementation Reforms, co-authored with Moustafa Abdalla, in Alderman, Harold; Gentilini, Ugo; Yemtsov, Ruslan (eds). 2018. The 1.5 Billion People Question : Food, Vouchers, or Cash Transfers?. Washington, DC: World Bank. © World Bank. "Economic Reform Programs: What Is Missing the Economic Transformation in Egypt” the Annual report of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, AlAhram Print house. (Arabic). 2018. “Monetary Policy in Egypt: What Was Done in The Period (2014-2017) and The Most Important Results”, Al-Ahram Print house. (Arabic). 2018. Should we Tax the Rich More, Arabic translated version of the Munk Debate on the Economic Inequality between Paul Krugman and George Papandreou, and Newt Gingrich and Arthur Laffer, Cairo Center for Development Benchmarking (Arabic). 2017. Inclusive Growth and Forward Looking Macroeconomic Policies. Egyptian Review of Development and Planning, Vol. 25, No. 1, June 2017. Institute of National Panning. The Value of the Egyptian Pound: Is It Time to Learn the Lesson”, the Annual report of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Al-Ahram Print house. (Arabic). 2017. Paolo Verme, BrankoMilanovic,Sherine Al-Shawarby, Sahar El Tawila,MayGadallah, and Enas Ali A.El-Majeed, 2014. Inside Inequality in the Arab Republic of Egypt: Facts and Perceptions across People, Time, and Space, The World Bank, Washington DC. S. Al-Shawarby and HodaSelim, International Food Price Pass-Through in Egypt, 2013. Springer Book, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, and