Salma Hussein is a Lead Economist at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, responsible for tax justice, wage justice, among other social justice and equality issues in Egypt. She has more than twenty years of experience in the fields of analyzing poverty trends and policies, public finance and the impact of the debt crisis on economic and social rights, and other macroeconomic and political issues from a human rights perspective.
She has worked, published, and managed research projects at distinguished regional think tanks including the Center for Access to Knowledge for Development at the American University in Cairo, the Arab Reform Initiative, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Regional Office. She co-translated Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the 21st Century.
