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Global Evidence for Egypt Conference: Using Evidence to Inform Decision-Making

Please join J-PAL MENA at AUC for the upcoming Global Evidence for Egypt conference, which will focus on how evidence from randomized evaluations conducted globally can inform decision-making in Egypt. This conference is part of the Global Evidence for Egypt Spotlight Seminar Series, which brings together Egyptian policymakers and researchers in the J-PAL network in a discussion about how to ta...

Jan

PRME Chapter Africa First Annual General Meeting

9:30 am

AUC New Cairo

AUC School of Business is hosting the first Annual General Meeting of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (UNPRME) Chapter Africa at the AUC New Cairo Campus. The meeting will consist of two sessions as well as a campus tour. The event will be livestreamed on the School's Facebook page, as well. Session One (9:30 - 11 am) will feature Mette Morsing, head, PRME ...

Jan

The Art of a Winning Case Study

12:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

AUC School of Business El-Khazindar Business Research and Case Center (KCC) will be hosting a hybrid event to announce the winners of the Emerald - AUC School of Business Case Writing Competition 2022. The event will also include a session titled "The Art of a Winning Case Study" delivered by Virginia Bodolica, professor of management at the American University of Sharjah, UAE, and the com...

Dec

MENA Scholars Fellowship Launch

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Online

Join J-PAL MENA at AUC in a webinar launching the MENA Scholars Fellowship (MSF) program, J-PAL MENA’s latest initiative to support young and early-career scholars. The webinar aims to explain the application process and will be followed by a Q&A. The session will be hosted by J-PAL MENA's Mona Amer, senior research manager and Heba ElSahn, senior policy and training associate. Selected fellows...

Dec

Incubating Feminist AI: MENA f<a+i>r Hub’s First Network Meeting

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Online

The AUC School of Business Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) is proud to be the Middle East and North Africa hub of the Fr Hubs Network (Feminist AI Research Network), an initiative of the Alliance global coalition. This will be the first MENA network meeting, where the fr Hubs Network will be introduced, bringing together key stakeholders in MENA in an action or...

Dec

CEI Women's Entrepreneurship Day Event

10:00 am

AUC New Cairo

The AUC School of Business Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) strongly focuses on the empowerment of women entrepreneurs using the social innovation approach. CEI is particularly interested in supporting potential female entrepreneurs to help reduce the gender gap in the Egyptian entrepreneurship ecosystem. Our goal is to help rising women entrepreneurs build and catalyze netwo...

Dec

Least Squares Monte Carlo for Valuing High-Dimensional Option Contracts

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

This Master of Science in Finance talk features Hatem Ben Ameur, professor of decision sciences at HEC, Montreal. The session is intended for faculty members and graduate students. During the session Professor Hatem Ben Ameur will discuss different numerical methods for valuing high-dimensional option contracts. In particular, he will present the least squares Monte Carlo algorithm and its a...

Nov

New IMF Loan: What’s Different this Time?

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

A discussion to contextualize recent economic policies within efforts to secure a new IMF loan, and propose policy changes to ensure more inclusive economic growth.

Nov

Women and Work in Egypt’s Informal Digital Economy: Evidence Based Insights for Policy Making

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Online

In this webinar, the Access to Knowledge for Development (A2K4D) Center will share insights from fieldwork conducted in Egypt with women working via social media and messaging platforms. Speakers will also engage in a conversation on areas for action in terms of policy recommendations to benefit similar women digital entrepreneurs and women working in the digital economy in general. This webina...

Nov

Agriculture Commodities and Egypt’s Chronic Deficit Position: The Role of Commodity Hedge Tools

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

AUC New Cairo

Join this session of the Economics Talks Series featuring Islam Salem, founder and managing partner, The Risk Manager, and board member of Eastern Company. The session will be held during assembly hour in Abdul Latif Jameel Building – Room 1055. Egypt, a country of 100+ million inhabitants, is the world’s top wheat importer, 4th in corn (maize), and is 95 percent dependent on imported vegeta...