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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 39, January 2022
Vol.1, Issue 39, January

Prof. Hala Abou Aly, LSE-

Egypt president meets

ELITE

Cairo: Ramy Magdy, Malak Ashraf, Salsabil Ayman

ELITE Magazine is honoured to meet Prof. Hala Abou Ali
(FEPS Professor of Economics and President LSE- Egypt
Branch), in her office at the European Universites in Egypt
(EUE) headquarters in the New Administrative Capital, and
here are the details of her interesting interview.

● Starting off, how did your relationship with the Faculty of
Economics and Political Science start, and why did you choose
this faculty particularly?

I was raised by two economists, both of my parents (Dr. Sultan
Abou Ali and Dr. Hanaa Kheir El Din) are graduates of the
Faculty of Commerce, Department of Economics, and by the
time I joined the Faculty of Economics and Political Science,
my mother - may God have mercy on her - was already one of
the faculty’s professors, and that made me hesitant at first to
join the same faculty where my mother worked, especially since
my parents were among the geniuses of Economics. Despite my
initial preference to join the Faculty of Engineering and study
architecture - I was in the scientific section in my secondary
education - my father did not encourage this because of my
various interests and my keenness on doing activities beside my
studies and he thought that the faculty of Economics and
Political Science is better suited for this n addition to its
relevance to my thought more. After considering options as: the
Faculty of Commerce, the then Institute of Urban Planning, and
the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, the decision
settled on the latter.

● During your student life, how was your relationship with
student activities and your professors?

I joined the Department of Statistics in the faculty because of
my love for mathematics. My relationship with student activities
was very limited due to the nature of the Statistics Department
studies, but I had other activities outside the faculty. As for my
relationship with the professors, I used to deal with them very
cautiously at first due to the fact that all of them had a prior
acquaintance of my parents and thus I knew some of them
personally before I joined the faculty. Despite excelling in my
studies and being the first among my class, I did not use to
speak a lot in my lectures, however, my personality would
immediately appear in my conversations with professors

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