Dina Armanious is currently a Professor of Statistics at Cairo University’s Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Egypt. With over two decades of expertise, she specializes in the analysis of household survey data, Food security assessments, Income and Multidimensional poverty analysis in Arab countries, Arab Middle-class dynamics and Inequality, Social Protection analysis and Impact evaluation. She is co-authoring reports on poverty and multidimensional poverty, inequality, food security and middle class in MENA region for governments, research centers and national and international organizations such as UNDP, WORLD BANK, UNICEF, WFP, ESCWA, UNHCR, and the League of Arab States, covering regions like Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Oman. Recently she co-authored “The Middle Class in Arab Countries’, ESCWA publication, 2023, “Mobility in Income Poverty Between 2010 and 2015 in Egypt”, (2019) World Economics Vol. 20 No. 1, “Understanding poverty and inequality in Egypt, Background Papers”, World Bank, June 2019, Chapter 2: The middle class in Egypt: size, trends, and profile.