Mohamed Abu Basha
Managing Director - Head of Macroeconomic Analysis
Mohamed Abu Basha is our lead economist covering the MENA region with over 10 years of experience in macro-related equity sell-side research. Abu Basha covers more than 14 economies in Asia, Africa and the MENA region. He also contributes regularly to our strategy-related research. Abu Basha was ranked amongst the top 10 analysts and the leading economist in MENA at the Extel 2017 survey for global funds. Prior to joining EFG Hermes, Abu Basha worked as an Economic Researcher at the Ministry of International Cooperation in Egypt since 2006, where he focused on impact evaluation studies on projects financed by foreign donors. Abu Basha holds a BA from the American University in Cairo, double-majoring in Economics and Political Science.