Dr Sarah Mansour

Dr Sarah Mansour is an Associate Professor of Economics at the National Defence College (NDC) of the United Arab Emirates. Before joining the NDC, Dr Mansour was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University. Dr Mansour has obtained both her Masters and PhD degrees in Economics from Warwick University in the UK. She has also been a Carnegie Fellow at Harvard University (Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Kennedy School of Government) in 2016. Dr Mansour has been the director of the Center for Institutions, Economics and Law in Egypt and the Master Programme in Law and Economics of the Arab Region (MLEA), a joint programme between FEPS and the Institute of Law and Economics at Hamburg University from 2017 till 2019. She was also a Norbert – Elias fellow at Bielefeld University, Germany for the period 2021-2022.

Dr Mansour is interested in using behavioural economics in combination with experimental methods to address issues related to economic development and climate change, education, the political economy of the Egyptian transition, increasing the social capital of Egyptians, and contributing to a behaviorally-informed public policy.

Dr Mansour has conducted many lab experiments on student subjects and lab-in-the-field experiments on Egyptian, Syrian, Tunisian, Jordanian, Sudanese and South-Sudanese non-student subjects. She has also conducted a randomized control trial (RCT) on girls in the age of 14-16 years old in 2023. She has travelled to Atlanta in January 2013 to pilot her first experiment at the Experimental Economics Center at Andrew Young School for Policy Studies. On her return, she established the first experimental lab at Cairo University in March 2013. Dr Mansour’s work has been published in top international journals like European Journal of Political Economy (EJPE), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO), Democratization and Public Choice. Dr Mansour has taught courses on "Public Finance", "Microeconomics", “Behavioral and Experimental Economics”, “Institutional Economics”, “Econometrics”, “Mathematical Economics” and "Economic Development" to undergraduate students, postgraduate students and public sector employees and top management as part of the Presidential Leadership Programme (PLP).