Nader Fergany

Nader Abd-Elmaksoud Fergany was an Egyptian sociologist and economist. He was director of the Egyptian research center Al-Mishkat.

Life and career

Fergany was born in Giza on 20 August 1944. 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.
Fergany has published works related to the fields of demography, migration, labor market, education and development, in Egypt and other Arab countries.
He effectuated research for a great number of Egyptian and international institutes. He was 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 United Kingdom.
Fergany died on 31 December 2024, at the age of 80.