Dr. Iman Elshair is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University. She obtained her PhD. in International Economics in 2014 from The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. Her dissertation was titled “Essays in International Macroeconomics”. She obtained her MSc. in 2006 in Institutional Economics from Cairo University.  Her research interests include the macroeconomic effects of commodity price shocks, oil subsidies, international transmission mechanisms of monetary policies, industrial policies; institutional economics as well as labor economics.