Cairo University

President Of Sector

hebanas[at]aucegypt[dot]edu
hnassar[at]cu[dot]edu[dot]eg

Dr . Heba Nassar, Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science(FEPS) Cairo University(CU) and  Vice President of CU since 1st of August 2008. Was the Chair of the Economic Department in 2007-2008  and Vice Dean for Community Development  and Vice Chair for all academic centers at (FEPS) over  the period 2004-2007. Over the period 1998-2005 she was the Director of the Center for Economic and Financial Research and Studies at FEPS.
Heba Nassar is also a fellow of the Economic Research Forum since 2003 and a co researcher of the Consortium for Applied Research in Migration at the Meditteranean Institute in Italy since 2004-2011. She is a member of the Talloires Network ( an international association of institutions committed to strengthening the civic roles and social responsibilities of higher education.) since 2008 and a member of the UN working Group on Global Compact for Universities since 2010. After teaching at the American University over the period 1983-1992 she became  a  Visiting  Research Professor at the Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo. She has also participated as a Peer reviewer of the Qatari National Research Fund  since 2010 and also for the Government Office Science Foresight project on Global Environmental Migration. She is a member of the Regulatory Board of the Electricity Holding Member , a member at the Citizenship Committee at the Higher Council of Culture and a member of the Economic Committee of the National Academy for Science and Technology and is also a  member of the Economic Sector of the Higher Council of Universities and the Permanent Committee for Promotion of Professors at el Azhar University.
She is a national and international consultant for several UN organizations and  was also the National Coordinator for several international and national programs at the International Labour Office in Cairo, the Ministry of Environment, World Food Program, World Health Organization, UNIFEM and UNDP and UNESCWA
Has several publications and papers in national and international academic conferences, journals and proceedings in different areas such as  labor market, skills development, education, small business and microfinance, MDG’s,  women economic participation, Human Resource Development, Poverty, Social Protection, Population studies, Privatization, Migration and Trade, Structural Adjustment, social policies….

Over the period 1994-2008  she became also a member in several academic, national and international associations such the National Specialized Councils, the economic committee of the National Council for Women, the Steering Committee of the Research Alliance For Development (RAD)(World Bank Paris), a member of the Board of the Holding Company of Electricity, a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee for Promotion of Professors in Economics in Egypt, a Member of the Global Power Council, a member of the Executive Population Committee at the  Ministry of Population and Family  .