Ahmed Sabry Abou-Zaid
- Position: Visiting Professor
- Department: Mohamed Shafik Gabr Department of Economics
Ahmed S. Abou-Zaid is a visiting professor of economics at The American University in Cairo (AUC). He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Cairo University, MA degree from AUC, and he has earned his PhD from Southern Illinois University.
Abou-Zaid has long and extensive experience in teaching in US universities. He taught at Southern while doing his doctoral work, and at Eastern Illinois University from 2008 until 2021. During his tenure at Eastern, he held the position of graduate studies coordinator from 2019 to 2021. He has also served in various committees such as planning and budgeting, academic affairs, international education, and council for graduate studies. Abou-Zaid has supervised several PhD dissertations and master’s theses. His students currently hold prominent positions in governments’ agencies, central banks, and financial institutions in the US and other countries in South America and Asia.
Abou-Zaid's main areas of interest are institutional, monetary, macroeconomics, and international finance and development. His work spans empirical, and policy analysis. His vita lists various publications, covering topics such as governance, shocks spillover, oil and exchange rate pass-through, and quality of growth in Africa. He has also collaborated with researchers in other areas such as management, comparative religion, and computer science.
- Institutional Economics and Governance
- International Finance and Development
- Monetary and Macroeconomics