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Mohamed El Dahshan is managing director of OXCON, a research and consulting firm working on issues of economic and social development in the Middle East and Africa, with a focus on fragile and post-conflict countries. He is also a Fellow at Chatham House and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP).
He previously served as Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard University Center for International Development, and Senior consultant at the African Development Bank and the United Nations Development Programme.
He regularly writes and lectures on topics including economic development, Middle Eastern transitions, entrepreneurship, and technology. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Councils.
Mohamed has received the European Union’s Anna Lindh Award for coverage and analysis of the Egyptian revolution for traditional and social media. Among other accolades, he is an Archbishop Desmond Tutu African Leadership Fellow; a Fellow of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations; and is listed as one of "100 Africa Future Economic Leaders" by the Institut Choiseul, and "100 Most Powerful Arabs under 40" by Arabian Business magazine.
He is the co-author of “Diaries of the Revolution”, a memoir of the 2011 Egyptian revolution published in Arabic and in Italian, as well as several book chapters, academic papers, and over a hundred articles for such outlets as Foreign Policy, the New York Times, the Guardian, among many others.
Mohamed holds master’s degrees from Oxford, Harvard, and Sciences-Po Paris.
