Nagla Rizk

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Professor of Economics

Nagla Rizk

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


The American University in Cairo

Economics, Access to Knowledge for Development Center, School of Business

Cairo

Egypt

http://www1.aucegypt.edu/faculty/naglarzk/index.html

Education


PhD, Economics, McMaster University, Canada.

MA, Economics, The American University in Cairo.

BA, Economics, The American University in Cairo.

 

languages


Arabic

English

French

COMPETENCES


Business Models in the Digital Economy.

Economics of Knowledge.

Information Technology and Development.

Intellectual Property and Human Development.

 

WORK HISTORY


Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, The American University in Cairo.

Associate Professor of Economics and former Department Chair, The American University in Cairo.

Founding director, Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D), The American University in Cairo.

Affiliated Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School.

Honorary office and memberships


Founding Member, Access to Knowledge Global Academy, in collaboration with Yale Law School and partners from Brazil, China, India, South Africa and the United States.

Member of the Advisory Board, IQsensato international research and policy think tank.

Member of the Board, the Genero Initiative for copyright.

Member of the Board, Khazindar Case Center, the American University in Cairo.

Productions and Works


Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development, Rizk and Shaver, eds, Bloomsbury Academic, 2010.

"Towards Productive Intercommunication for Knowledge". Arab Knowledge Report (Co-authors: Kamal Abdul Latif, Omar Bizri, Mouin Hamza and Ramzi Salama), Al Maktoum Foundation and the United Nations Development Programme, 2009.

"Access to Knowledge in Egypt: Economic, Global and Local Perspectives". Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development, Rizk and Shaver, eds, Bloomsbury Academic, 2010.

"Notes from Egypt's Alternative Music Scene: Business Models, Commons and Copyright". Journal of World Intellectual Property, January 2010.