Caroline Krafft Author & Editor

Ragui Assaad is Professor of Planning and Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. He has been a Research Fellow of the Economic Research Forum since 1994 and thematic leader of its Labour and Human Resource Development thematic area since 2011. He holds a PhD degree in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University and a Master degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He served as Regional Director for West Asia and North Africa for the Population Council, based in Cairo, Egypt, from 2005 to 2008. Caroline Krafft received her Master's of Public Policy from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and is now pursuing her PhD in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Her research examines issues in development economics, primarily labor, education, health, and inequality in the Middle East and North Africa. She is currently engaging in research on the Egyptian labor market, the economics of marriage in North Africa, education in Egypt and Jordan, and early childhood development throughout the Middle East and North Africa.