Professor Chahir Zaki is a chaired professor of economics at the University of Orléans and a research fellow at Laboratoire d’Economie d’Orléans where he is the chairholder of the Chair in Environmental and Mineral Economics. Chahir is also a lead economist (part-time) at the Economic Research Forum, a professor of economics at Cairo University (on leave) and as a consultant for several international organizations. He is also the director of Egypt’s pole of the Euro-Mediterranean and African Network for Economic Studies (EMANES), a member of the experts’ panel of the Euro-Mediterranean Economic Association (EMEA) and a board member of the Middle East Economist Association. He has written numerous studies published in refereed journals on international trade, global value chains, environment, trade policy, trade in services, and macroeconomic modeling.