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CEI Women's Entrepreneurship Day Event

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...

Dec

Business Forward Fifth Annual Event

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

AUC School of Business is pleased to invite you to the anticipated Business Forward Annual Event that takes stock of the past year’s economic performance and provides expert perspectives on the future outlook and suggested remedies through in depth analysis of local and global trends. The event is held every year in December, around the anniversary of Business Forward, the knowledge portal of t...

Dec

Economics 75th Anniversary

6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

This year, the Department of Economics will be celebrating its Diamond Jubilee. The event will be attended and hosted by the department's most notable and high-profile alumni and faculty and will include several panels, discussions, videos and performances.

Nov

The Egyptian Food Bank: Transitioning from Hunger Relief to Food Security

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

Join Mohsen Sarhan, CEO of The Egyptian Food Bank and as he discusses concepts that are currently not mainstream and may (or perhaps should) become mainstream in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nov

Afreximbank Report Launch

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

AUC Tahrir Square

Join Afreximbank in launching the 2022 African Trade Report in Egypt, themed "Leveraging the Power of Culture and Creative Industries for Accelerated Structural Transformation in the AfCFTA Era."

Nov

UNHCR Involvement in Islamic Philanthropy

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Online

Join this session featuring Khaled Khalifa and Abbas Barzegar as they explore how Integrating Islamic philanthropy tools into international humanitarian and development practice is among the most exciting innovations in the space.