Prof. Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim is currently a Professor, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. He is a research fellow at the Economic Research Forum for Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey (ERF) as well as at the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Poland. He works as a consultant to several international and national organizations including the World Bank, WTO, UNCTAD, UNDP, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and his special interests in research include mainly trade policy, trade in services, regional trade integration, the multilateral trading system, the World Trade Organization, the economics of Intellectual Property Rights, institutional economics, law and economics, and political economy, in which he has published widely. He held different policy oriented positions, among which he was an advisor on foreign trade issues to the Minister of Foreign Trade and the Minister of Industry. He advised several governments on different trade policy issues, and helped in capacity building programs in a number of countries. In August 2014, he was appointed as the Cultural Counselor for Egypt in Berlin and Vienna and the Head of the Student Mission in Germany, Austria and a number of European countries. In November 2018, he went back to Egypt, as a Professor of Economics at Cairo University. In August 2020, he was appointed as the head of the economic authority of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC). He serves as a board member for a number of institutions including NMEC, Grand Egyptian Museum, Supreme Council of Antiquities, and Fund for Tourism and Antiquities. He is also an advisor to the Minister of Planning and Economic Development on trade policy issues.