Mona Said earned her BA and MA degrees in economics from AUC and earned her MPhil and PhD degrees in economics from University of Cambridge, UK, where her doctoral research was on the political economy and econometrics of labor market segmentation, and institutional change in Egypt. She previously held the position of lecturer in economics with reference to the Middle East at the Economics Department of the School of Oriental and African studies (SOAS), London University. She also held operational positions at the Middle East and North Africa Department of the World Bank and Policy Development and Review Department of the International Monetary Fund. Said is currently an academic affiliate of the London Middle East Institute (LMEI), SOAS, London and active research associate of the Economic Research Forum for Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey and of the Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at AUC. Her current research interests are in labor and human resource economics, poverty and income distribution, gender gaps in earnings and job quality and equity implications of trade policy, Islamic finance and microfinance. Her publications have appeared several international refereed venues including: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Developing Areas, Comparative Economic Studies, Review of Middle East Economics and Finance and Review of Radical Political Economics.

Economics, Economic Growth and Development