Nada is a Research Associate. Before Joining IFPRI, she worked as an Economist at Towson University’s Regional Economic Studies Institute (RESI) in Maryland, USA. She has also worked as a Consultant for both IFPRI and the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) as well as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Economics Department at the American University in Cairo and at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology (AAST) Business Department in Alexandria. She holds both her MA and BA degrees in Economics from the American University in Cairo (AUC) and has completed a graduate certificate program in healthcare data analytics from University of Connecticut in the USA. Her research interests are Applied Development Economics, Public Policy, Macroeconomics, Health Economics and International Economics.