Yassmena Tarek Salah Abdelazim

I am a Master's student and Erasmus Mundus scholar with high passion in social sciences and specifically the field of Quantitative Economics. In addition to my academic curiosity, I am looking forward to building a career as a research analyst or an economic consultant. I had internships in research analysis, M&E, and the banking sector. I have joined multiple courses to improve my data analysis skills including Udacity Nano-degree program in data analysis, and Data Analytics by IBM. Besides, I have volunteered in several non-profit organizations through different roles. I am a native Arabic speaker, fluent in English, and competent in German.

Research Assistant at the Economic Research Forum · Aug 2022 - Sep 2022 

- Helped in organizing, cleaning, and harmonizing Data.
- Prepared documents and reports for publishing.

Project assistant at the Hanns Seidel Foundation · Feb 2022 - Aug 2022 · 7 mosFeb 2022 - Aug 2022 

- Conducted research and assisted in the monitoring and evaluation of the activities
- Coordinated with partners and service providers for the planning and implementation of activities
- Wrote reports in English and German, translated documents, attended meetings and conferences.
- Documented meetings and prepared presentations

Research Analyst at the Cairo Center for Development Benchmarking CDB · Internship, Aug 2021 - Oct 2021 

- Conducted qualitative research and market research.
- Designed complete qualitative and quantitative tools for evaluation.
- Worked on two projects with the World bank and European union.
- Translated several tools, reports, and documents.
- Assisted in creating data bases and in data analysis.
- Prepared presentations and offered a training.

Economic Researcher at The Monitoring and Evaluation Unit in the Egyptian Ministry of Planning and Economic Development Internship, Jul 2021 - Aug 2021 

- Conducted research on current national projects.
- Monitored the data of different ministries and worked on the Government Action System. 
- Assisted in evaluating the Programs and Performance Budget.
- Attended different workshops held by the various departments of the ministry.

Intern at the CIB Egypt · Jul 2021 

- Received a full training on Financial Inclusion.
- Learnt about many financial and banking products.

Economic Researcher at the Egyptian Competition Authority · Internship, April 2021

- I was introduced to Egyptian competition law.
- Was trained to conduct market research.
- Did analysis to a case study and presented the findings and possible solutions. 

Intern at The United Bank of Egypt Jun 2019 - Jul 2019

- Learnt about different financial instruments and the banking mechanism.
- Helped in some managerial tasks in the branch.

I am a first year Master's student  enrolled in Erasmus Mundus Joint degree Program in Quantitative Economics QEM offered by the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), the coordinating institution, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Italy), and Warsaw School of Economics (Poland).

I have received my Bachelor's degree in Economics from Cairo University in 2022.