Asmaa Adel Email & Phone Number

Egypt

• Representing Egypt in many AfCFTA meetings throughout the negotiations and implementation processes of the Agreement on the Negotiations Forum and Senior Trade Officials levels.• The National Focal Point for the AfCFTA Online Mechanism for Reporting, Monitoring and Eliminating NTBs.• Taking part in the decision-making process through preparing supportive trade and trade-related studies and analysis, for instance, conducting a study for evaluating the establishment of a RORO Maritime Shipping Line between Egypt and East of Africa;• Working with the AfCFTA National Negotiations Team in preparing the national positions, communicating with the African Union Commission (AUC), coordinating between various concerned stakeholders and actors (both public and private), taking part in the national consultations process, and convening the public awareness seminars;• Coordinating between the different national interested authorities and stakeholders for preparing the national trade technical positions comply with the national interests throughout Phase I of negotiations on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA); and• Assisting in preparing and formulating the national positions with respect to the trade sphere in order to support the Presidential Office with the latest Egypt-Africa trade developments during participation in the African Union Summits.

Egypt

• Cooperating within a team working on preparing the national positions required to be adopted throughout the trade negotiation process amongst the D-8 MS, currently on D-8 PTA Agreement, for the sake of enhancing trade cooperation between these countries; • Evaluating the projects proposed by the national trade-related entities and authorities to be introduced under umbrella of the funded Project Cycle Mechanism (PCM) of the COMCEC Strategy, as well as following up and monitoring the implementation of these Egypt-COMCEC projects, for instance, the OIC/COMCEC Arab-African Industrial Enterprise Network (AAIEN) Project proposed and successfully short-listed in 2013 and implemented by IMC; • Serving as a liaison between the national trade and industrial oriented public stakeholders the other Member States in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and in the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, in order to enhance collaboration amongst them, especially through facilitating capacity building pertaining to trade cooperation; namely, Trade Facilitation, Trade Financing and Trade Promotion; and• Taking part in the national consultation process and spreading awareness sessions relevant to the D-8 Preferential Trade Agreement (D8 PTA), and the COMCEC PRETAS Agreement.

Egypt

• Evaluating, selecting and monitoring the implementation of the trade and trade-related projects executed under the umbrella of the Aid for Trade Initiative for the Arab states (AFTIAS) Program, inter alia, Strengthening Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED I & II) project executed by ILO; Training and Employment for Export (TREE) project executed by FTTC; and Trade Support Institutions (TSIs) project executed by ITC; • Serving as a liaison between both the national (FTTC, ITC) and the international UN implementing agencies (UNCTAD, ILO, UNDP, ITC, UNIDO) and the beneficiaries of these projects, locally or internationally, to guarantee the smooth implementation of these funded projects; and• Assisting in preparing the Egyptian technical positions for Board meetings and Technical Coordination Committee Meetings, aiming to maintaining the main objectives of AFTIAS program and the national, regional and Arab interests.

Egypt

This company was established for exploiting the untapped resources in Upper Egypt, which is deemed to be one of the less-privileged region in Egypt, for alleviating poverty through private direct investment, for lowering the unemployment rates among the youth, and for raising the standards of living for the people in Upper Egypt. My main tasks and responsibilities:- Conducting market feasibility studies for different sectors in the Egyptian economy, assisting in capturing the investment opportunities in the Upper Egypt region;- Analyzing the current situation of different domestic markets, as well as measuring and forecasting the demand and supply sides of specific products; and- Assisting with providing the required financial database necessary for conducting the Financial Feasibility Models.

Egypt

- Collect and analyze economic and socio-economic data;- Conduct economic researches and studies;- Monitor developments of economic trends (Macro-economic Indicators);- Assisting with providing applied technical support to the research and policy analysis (Using Econometric Modeling Methods); and- Revising the consistency of the tailored statistical Questionnaires (Measuring Wheat Productivity in Egypt Project-2008).

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Economics, Faculty Of Economics And Political Science (Feps), Economics, Excellent With Honors - Ranked Tenth (Economics Section); 3.7/4 Gpa.

Non-Degree Program, G20 - Global Leadership Program