Chahir Zaki is a Chaired Professor of Economics at the University of Orléans and a research fellow at Laboratoire d’Economie d’Orléans. Chahir is also a lead economist (part time) the Economic Research Forum (Cairo, Egypt) and as a consultant for several international organizations (the World Bank, the International Labor Office and the OECD). He is also a Professor at Cairo University (on leave) and the director of Egypt’s pole of the Euro-Mediterranean and African Network for Economic Studies (EMANES) and a member of the experts’ panel of the Euro-Mediterranean Economic Association (EMEA). He has written numerous studies published in refereed journals on international trade, trade policy, trade in services, applied economics, and macroeconomic modeling.