STUDENT FELLOWS

Nada Maamoun is Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the DFG graduate school for the Economic Analysis of international law at the institute of Law and Economic at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Nada is interested the analysis of international environmental agreements/policies with specific interest in those targeting air pollution and climate change. Her PhD research focuses on the empirical the analysis of international environmental policies and their effectiveness on reducing harmful emissions, motivating compliance and the effects of those agreements on the economy.

Nada completed a M.Sc. in economics from the German University of Cairo (GUC) with high honors, her thesis focused on investigating the effects of natural disasters on the economy and how government intervention (in the form of state of emergency) may affect the extent of economic losses. While at the GUC, Nada worked as a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses such as “Quantitative and Qualitative methods” as well as “Development economics”. During her masters, she did an internship at the institute for law and economics (ILE) in University of Hamburg, where she did research on states of emergency and natural disasters and their combined effect on the economy.

As an ISEP student fellow, Nada works on global coal-fired plants and their retirements as well as the public opinion on air pollution.