Khaled Bendary

Khaled Bendary is a Research and Content Intern with Data-Pop Alliance’s Just Digital Transformation Program. He holds a BS in the Economics of Banking and Capital Markets from the University of Zagazig in Egypt, and he is currently working towards his double MSc in Development Economics at the Georg August University of Göttingen in Germany jointly with the University of Clermont Auvergne in France. Khaled has nearly 5 years of collective research experience. He worked for almost 2 years as a Student Researcher at the Institute of Tropical Medicine of the University of Nagasaki Japan, where he was involved in several impact evaluation studies, including a randomized controlled trial assessing the impact of nicotine inhalers to reduce smoking among Vietnamese men. This experience was followed by other collaborations with professors and researchers at Cambridge University, Harvard University, and the American University in Cairo, where he assisted in the production of policy briefs and research on issues such as food security, child malnutrition, poverty & inequality as well as issues of digitization in Egypt, Senegal, Benin, Turkmenistan, and most recently, in Sierra Leone.

His passion and research interests lie in using digital tools and technologies as policy interventions to overcome poverty and deepening inequality in low- and middle-income countries.