Israa A. El Husseiny

Biography

Israa A. El Husseiny is an Associate Professor at the Economics Department, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She is actively involved in research pertaining to public finance and public economics with an emphasis on issues of budgeting and budgetary institutions; fiscal policy and fiscal deficit; education finance; and public financial management. Dr. El Husseiny obtained her PhD and Master’s in Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, in years 2014 and 2009, respectively. In 2021, Dr. Israa A. El Husseiny won the State Incentive Award in the Economic and Legal Sciences, by the Supreme Council of Culture. She has been working as an expert in economic policy; public finance; budget and fiscal decentralization; human development; and financing sustainable development for different international organizations including EU, USAID, UK Aid, UNICEF, UNDP, and World Bank in several development projects in Egypt. She also was one of the experts who participated in the updating process of the Sustainable Development Strategy: Egypt’s Vision 2030, under the responsibility of the Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform in 2019. Dr. Israa was one of the authors of “Egypt’s Human Development Report 2021” and “Financing Sustainable Development in Egypt Report 2022”. She also was one of the drafting team members of Egypt’s National Anti-corruption Strategy 2023-2030, launched in December 2022. Her research articles on public economics issues have appeared in reputable and peer-reviewed international journals. Topics of these publications include: budgetary institutions and fiscal performance; optimal government size; austerity measures; cyclical behavior of fiscal policy; budget deficit’s determinants; public expenditure on pre-university education; child-at-risk protection; efficiency of healthcare spending; efficiency of fiscal responses to COVID-19; impact of government expenditure on environmental quality; and the relative effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policies in promoting economic growth.