Rostom, Ahmed

(Financial Sector Specialist, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.) Ahmed Rostom is Financial Sector Specialist at The World Bank in East Asia and Pacific: Finance and Private Sector Development Department (EASFP). His duties include supporting EASFP team on conducting analysis, post implementation monitoring and evaluation for financial sector projects. He also helps the team on devising programs relating to developing regulatory frameworks and reforming financial systems in the region. Since joining the World Bank in 2010, Rostom’s professional experience spanned financial development policies, financial inclusion, Islamic finance and financial sector reform. He worked on a number of Financial Sector Development projects in MENA Region as well as Output Based Aid projects in the Finance; Economics and Urban Development Unit in the Social Development Anchor. Rostom has also worked with the advisory team to the World Bank’s Managing Director on issues relating to Islamic finance and global financial architecture. He co-authored many World Bank working papers and reports on financial development, Islamic finance and financial inclusion. He holds a M.Sc. in Economics from Faculty of Economics and Political Science in Cairo University and a M.Sc. in Economics and Social Policy Analysis from University of York in United Kingdom. Rostom is currently in the final stages of his Ph.D. in Economics at George Washington University at Washington D.C. in fields of Quantitative Economics and International Trade and finance. He was awarded The International Ford Foundation Fellowship for his Ph.D. studies in USA and the United Kingdom’s Foreign Common Wealth Office Chevening Award for his postgraduate study in UK.