Nagla Rizk is Associate Professor of Economics at the American University in Cairo. Her research looks at the economics of knowledge, technology and economic development and focuses on information and communication technology (ICT), business models in the digital economy and intellectual property and human development in Egypt and the Arab countries. She is a co-author of The First Arab Knowledge Report 2009, and co-editor and contributor to Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development.

Professor Rizk is a founding member of the Access to Knowledge Global Academy, which collaborates with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and other global partners. She is also the leader of Egypt’s Access to Knowledge research team and a member of the Advisory Board of IQsensato international research and policy think tank. She served as chair of the Economics Department at AUC, research advisor for Egypt’s e-readiness project at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology and taught at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD in economics from McMaster University in Canada, and her MA and BA in economics from AUC.

Recent Publications

- Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development, co-edited with Lea Shaver; Bloomsbury Academic (2009)
- “Access to Knowledge in Egypt: Economic, Global and Local Perspectives,” with Lea Shaver, in Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development, Rizk and Shaver, eds., Bloomsbury Academic, 2009 (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1437611)
- “Notes from Egypt’s Alternative Music Scene: Business Models, Commons and Copyright,” Journal of World Intellectual Property (forthcoming)
- “Enabling Environments for Knowledge Creation: Freedoms and Knowledge in the Arab World,” in The Arab Knowledge Report 2009; Al Maktoum Foundation and the United Nations Development Program (2009).
- “The Software Industry in Egypt: What Role for Open-Source?,” co-authored with Sherif El-Kassas, in Access to Knowledge in Egypt, New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Development; Bloomsbury Academic, 2009
- “Stories from Egypt’s Music Industry: De Facto Commons as Alternatives to Copyright,” in Access to Knowledge in Egypt, New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Development, Rizk and Shaver eds.; Bloomsbury Academic, 2009.
- “Information Technology, Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development,” in Cultural Heritage and Development in the Arab World, Fekri Hassan, Aloisia de Trafford and Mohsen Youssef, eds.; Biblioteca Alexandrina, 2008.
- “Arab Musiconomics, Culture, and Copyright,” in Intellectual Property and Development: WIPO Development Agenda and Developing Countries, Neil Netanel, Ed., Oxford University Press, 2008.
- “Venturing the Unexplored: E-readiness Assessment of Small and Medium Enterprises in Egypt,” in Electronic Business in Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities, Sherif Kamel, ed., Idea Publishing Group, 2006.