Education CV
Education
2019-21: MA Economics for Competition Law at King’s College London (Part-Time Distance Learning). Dissertation titled: “On optimal merger control in Egypt: the costs and benefits of the status quo and of an ex-ante regime”.
2017-18: LLM in International Business and Commercial Law at the University of Manchester (with Distinction). Dissertation titled: “A critical assessment of the impact of trademarks and the newly recognised ‘modern functions’ on competition”.
2014-17: LLB (Hons) Law at the University of Manchester.
Qualifications
Egyptian Bar Association (December 2018 – Present).
Professional experience
September 2022 – September 2023: Head of the Competition Policy and Competitive Neutrality Department at the Egyptian Competition Authority (Cairo, Egypt)
May 2022 – September 2022: Lead Legal Researcher at the Egyptian Competition Authority (Cairo, Egypt)
January 2022 – April 2022: Secondee at the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) Competition Division (Paris, France)
January 2020 – January 2022: Senior Legal Researcher at the Egyptian Competition Authority (Cairo, Egypt)
November 2018 – January 2020: Legal Researcher at the Egyptian Competition Authority (Cairo, Egypt)
February 2019 – June 2019: Assistant Lecturer (Part-Time) for Business and Commercial Law at Misr International University (Cairo, Egypt)
Other experience
September 2024 – Present: Co-Executive Director of the Cambridge Pro Bono Project (Cambridge, UK)
October 2023 – September 2024: Managing Editor at the Cambridge International Law Journal (Cambridge, UK)
October 2015 – June 2018: Editor at The Manchester Review of Law, Crime and Ethics (Manchester, UK)
Fields of research
Competition law
Competition law and development
Intellectual property law
Working Title: The Role of Competition Law and Policy in the Promotion of Economic Development in the Global South: the Case of Egypt
Summary
Funding: Squire Postgraduate Studentship in Law (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge)
Supervisors
Professor Okeoghene Odudu
Representative Publications
Chapters in Books:
- Forthcoming: co-author of chapter on competition law and policy in “Handbook of Egyptian Economy” (Oxford University Press).
Papers:
- Forthcoming: “Modern-Day Solutions for Modern-Day Globalisation: Proposals for Curbing Imported Anti-Competitive Behaviour” (EU and Comparative Law Issues and Challenges Series – ECLIC),
Conference Papers:
- Co-author of OECD Secretariat Background Note for the OECD Competition Committee Roundtable on “Director Disqualification and Bidder Exclusion in Competition Enforcement” (November 2020).
- Co-author of the Egyptian Competition Authority's contribution to the OECD Competition Committee Roundtable on “Startups, killer acquisitions and merger control” (June 2020).
- Co-author of Egyptian Competition Authority's contribution to the OECD Global Forum on Competition Roundtable on “Merger control in dynamic markets” (December 2019).
- Co-author of Egyptian Competition Authority's contribution to the OECD Competition Committee Roundtable on “Licensing of IP rights and competition law” (June 2019).
Reports:
- Voluntary Peer Review of Competition Law and Policy in Egypt (UNCTAD), co-authored with Professor Ioannis Lianos.
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