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
October 2023 – Present: 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
Research centres and interest groups
Working Title: The Role of Competition Law and Policy in the Promotion of Economic Development in the Global South: the Case of Egypt
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).
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).
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