Nayera Adly Husseiny

Nayera Adly Husseiny is a Lead of Egypt Impact Lab at J-PAL Middle East and North Africa, EIL is a collaborative initiative between J-PAL Middle East and North Africa and the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development. This innovative partnership aims to strengthen poverty reduction policies by rigorously evaluating promising government programs. In this role, she supports the lab in strategy development and execution, work planning, partnership-building, and communications.

Before joining J-PAL in 2022, Nayera worked at the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development, where she supported the launch of the Foundation’s strategy sector and facilitated the development of the Foundation’s first evidence-based strategy, 2023–2027; she also worked at Educate Me Foundation to support the launch of the Educate Me Nursery and the Early Childhood Education Program. 

Nayera holds a Master's of Development Practice from the Humphrey School for Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, a diploma in Monitoring & Evaluation from the American University in Cairo, and a Bachelor’s of Science in Political Science from Cairo University. Nayera is the recipient of the Yousriya Loza-Sawiris graduate scholarship at the University of Minnesota and the Onsi Sawiris undergraduate scholarship at the University of Chicago.