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Hala Abou-Ali is a Professor of Economics and the Chair of the Economics Department at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University and a Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum specialized in environmental and development economics with focus on the economic value and modeling of environmental resources in developing countries. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Gothenburg University, Sweden. Abou-Ali served as the Vice President of the Institute of National Planning, the Branch Campus President of the University of London hosted by the European Universities in Egypt (EUE) and as the Programme Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) at EUE. Abou-Ali also worked as the director of the French Section at FEPS, Cairo University. She worked as the Secretary General of the National Council of Childhood and Motherhood in 2015. Abou-Ali is a former Member of the Egyptian Parliament. Abou-Ali has published several articles in internationally refereed journals, book chapters and edited internationally published books. She has accumulated experience in the economic value and modeling of environmental resources in developing countries. She has also worked on issues such as climate change, climate finance, impact evaluation of investments, poverty assessment, education, health, and the Sustainable Development Goals for UNDP, UN-ESCWA, UNFPA, WHO, and the World Bank.

Racha Ramadan is a professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University and the representative of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) in Egypt. She got her Ph.D. in Economics, in 2010, from Toulouse School of Economics, France. Since 2010, she worked as an economic consultant for different international organizations such as the UNDP, World Bank, UN-ESCWA, UN-FAO, IFAD, OECD, UNESCO and ILO. She is an ERF research fellow, a fellow of the Summer Program in Social Science (SPSS) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a member of the Associate Editorial Board of New Medit- A Mediterranean Journal of Economics, Agriculture and Environment. She is a lauréate of the Program Femme d’Avenir en Méditerranée- Sciences Po Paris and is the Country Deputy Director for the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Economic Studies (EMNES) for Egypt. Racha Ramadan was a visiting scholar at Hamburg University in Germany (2012), at Chicago University Center in Paris (2013) and at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Minnesota University in USA (2014). She has several papers published in peer reviewed journals as Review of Income and Wealth and Food Policy. Her research interests include applied micro-econometrics on poverty, inequality, food security, gender and human development in Egypt and other developing countries.

Amira Elayouty is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. She has been awarded her Ph.D. degree in Statistics in 2017 from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; and currently is an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow within the same school. Her teaching interests include inferential statistics and statistical modeling.

Her research interests include spatio-temporal models, generalized additive non-parametric regression models and functional data analysis with a particular focus on high-frequency and big environmental and socio-economic data and statistics. She is interested in developing and using advanced statistical methods to allow for a better understanding of the rapid environmental and socioeconomic changes and their impacts on the places, species, and society and to improve the risk and uncertainty assessment of these changes. Elayouty has been elected as a Global representative for the International Environmetrics Society (TIES) for the period 2021–2025 and is currently leading the new early-career researchers mentoring scheme committee for the society.