Nader Abd-Elmaksoud Fergany is an Egyptian sociologist and economist. He is director of the Egyptian research center Al-Mishkat.[1] [2]
Fergany was born on August 20, 1944, in Giza. He obtained his bachelor's degree in 1963 at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science of Cairo University. He continued his studies at the University of North Carolina and received his Ph.D. there in 1970.[3]
Fergany has published works related to the fields of demography, migration, labor market, education and development, in Egypt and other Arab countries.[4]
He effectuated research for a great number of Egyptian and international institutes. He is an advisor for many Arab and international organizations, like the National Planning Institute, the National Population Council, the Central Agency for Mobilization and Statistics and the American University, all in Cairo. Furthermore, he did research for the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics in Baghdad, the Arab Planning Institute in Kuwait and St Antony's College in Oxford in the UK.[5]
Fergany is the principal author of the Arab Human Development Report of 2002. This report was honored in 2003 with a Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands and was the first of a series of reports in this field that followed in subsequent years. These reports were labored by a great number of scientists.[6] Furthermore, he published (selection):