nehal.elmegharbel@un.org

Nihal El-Megharbel is currently the Urban Policies, Governance and Legislation Program Manager, UNHABITAT, Egypt Program. She is responsible for leading a group of experts to develop the National Urban Policy, and for piloting a project on detailed planning, land-based finance, local economic development and public finance management in Qena and another governorate. Dr. El-Megharbel was the Vice Minister of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform, for Monitoring. She was also the Deputy Minister of the Minister of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform, for Economic Affairs. During her work at MoPMAR, she was responsible for coordinating the development of the Sustainable Development Strategy: Egypt 2030”. El-Megharbel was an Expert, at the Arab Planning Institute in Kuwait. She was the director of the Local Administration Reform Unit, Ministry of Local Development. She was also a Principal Economist in the technical office of the Minister of Trade and Industry. She was a Principal Economist at the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, and the Studies and Policy Support Unit Manager at the Industrial Modernization Center. El-Megharbel was a lecturer at Cairo University and the French University. She earned her Ph.D. from Cairo University and her Masters Degree in the American University in Cairo.