Dr. Abla Abdel Latif is a prominent Egyptian economist, serving as Executive Director and Director of Research at the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES) and formerly chairing Egypt's Presidential Advisory Council for Economic Development for eight years. She earned her degrees from the American University in Cairo (AUC) and a PhD in economics from the University of Southern California (USC), later spending over two decades as an AUC Economics Professor and becoming a Lifetime Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum (ERF).
In public policy and institutional reform, Dr. Abdel Latif served on the 2013 Constitutional Committee of Fifty representing the Egyptian Federation of Industries, held advisory roles with the Ministry of Industry and the Central Bank of Egypt, and was the first female board member of the National Bank of Egypt. She also co-founded the El Nidaa Foundation to focus on poverty reduction and job creation for women and youth in Upper Egypt.
