Dr. Amr Ashraf M. Ragab

Amr Ragab is a political economist working on macroeconomics, inequality, and development. His Vast Majority Income measure captures how much a country earns and how unevenly it is shared, in a single number. He is Assistant Professor of Economics in the School of Business Administration at Nile University, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research in New York (2014). 

Before joining Nile University in 2021, he directed the Master of Development Economics program at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Earlier came five years with the United Nations Development Programme in New York and Amman, working on inequality, macroeconomic vulnerability, and the resilience-based response to the Syrian crisis, with contributions to three UNDP flagship reports. In 2025 he was Lead Author of the UN-ESCWA Economic Resilience Index, a framework now covering more than 180 countries. He returned to the New School as a Visiting Scholar from 2022 to 2024.