Professional Affiliation

Visiting Scholar, Instructor, and Teaching Fellow Coordinator, Stanford University

Expert Bio

Amir Magdy Kamel is a Visiting Scholar, Instructor, and Teaching Fellow Coordinator at Stanford University. He also holds Associate Professor and Fellow (research) positions at King's College London. His research and expertise focus on two areas: political and economic issues across the Middle East (EU and US foreign policies towards the region, in particular) and the impact of transformative financial instruments on states and policymaking. Amir also has more than a decade of combined experience providing advice to various government agencies, working as an analyst for an international economic consultancy, and has sat on the steering committee for a nuclear policy focused NGO. Amir holds a PhD from King’s College London where explored the relationship between trade and conflict. His latest book is titled Floundering Stability: US Foreign Policy in Egypt.