Doha Abdelhamid

Doha Abdelhamid is an economist and policy evaluation expert with 27 years of experience in academia and consulting. She has numerous local, regional and internationally published books, academic and non-academic articles and policy papers. Her areas of research interest are in development economics, finance, gender and monitoring and evaluation. She held positions as senior policy advisor to the former minister of finance, minister of planning and economic development, and finally in the Cabinet of ministers (with the Minister-President of the Central Agency for Organization and Administration) of Egypt. In those capacities she managed the package of fiscal, development planning and civil service reforms.

Other areas of work are in academia, where she lectured in finance and policy evaluations at the American University in Cairo, Carleton University in Canada, Edinburgh Business School of the UK, the Arab Academy for Science and Technology, and the Cape Breton University. In January 2008, her last book publication: ‘Essays in International Regulatory Competition in Theory and Practice: Lessons and Experiences from the Developing and Developed Financial World’ won her the Ahram Foundation’s Best Regional Scientific Contribution of the Year.

Doha is also active in civil society work, namely in the International Development Evaluation Association (IDEAS), in which she was re-elected Executive Board Member for two terms and represented Egypt and the MENA region (2004-11); and in the Media Society for Consumer Protection and Development as Executive Board Member. Doha is co-founder of the MENA Regional Network for Development Evaluation, supported by the International Development Research Center (IDRC) of Canada and the American University of Beirut (AUB) of Lebanon, and co-founder of the Egyptian Development Evaluation Society (EgyDeval). She is member of the African Evaluation Association (AFREA).

In addition, Doha was formerly member of the Permanent Economic Policies Committee of the National Council for Women, and the Governance Steering Group of the Information and Decision Support Center (Social Contract Center) in Egypt. She acted as regional advisor to Global Environment Fund (GEF) where she became an active member of the Regional Network for Evaluating Climate Change and Development, and Steering Committee Member of the Investing in Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Regional Conference, both in partnership with the Bibliotecha Alexandrina. She is a Global Task Force Member in the Inwent-World Bank Institute for Training Effectiveness Metrics; and member of the regional knowledge management network of IDRC/MERO, known as KariaNet.

Doha has been recently appointed as the MENA Representative to the Board of Trustees of the International Organization for Cooperation in Evaluation (IOCE), and also as an International Advisor to the African Evaluation Association (AFREA);  member of the International Editorial Board of the African Evaluation Journal; independent best-practices for quality assurance international expert to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); and panel peer reviewer of the evaluation function of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) by the UN Evaluation Group (UNEG).