Currently represents 11 countries from MENA on the IMF's Board as Executive Director and is the UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Also is High-Level Climate Action Champion for COP27 hosted in Egypt. Formerly World Bank Group Senior Vice President for the 2030 Development Agenda, UN Relations and Partnerships. He previously held numerous senior positions in the Government of Egypt, including Minister of Investment. He also served on several Boards of Directors, including the Central Bank of Egypt and the banking, corporate, and academic sectors. He is also Professor of Economics and Finance at Cairo University and Honorary Professor at Durham University.
Almost a decade has passed since countries committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In 2017, the United Nations first assessed the financing gap – the difference between ...
It has been more than half a century since William Nordhaus and James Tobin proposed to establish in common use a ‘Measure of Economic Welfare’ that adjusted GDP to include the value of u...
