Wael Abdallah is an assistant professor of finance at The American University in Cairo’s (AUC) Onsi Sawiris School of Business, where he teaches at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests include corporate finance, investment analysis, international finance, bank financial strength ratings, credit risk management in financial institutions and derivatives.

Abdallah is active in delivering training modules and providing technical consultation for senior corporate managers and associate investment bankers in local and multinational firms and banks, including CIB, CI Capital and the Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunication (CIT). He is a prolific writer and a regular participant in international conferences, seminars and workshops. His expertise includes non-parametric modeling techniques such as neural networks, CHAID and CART, as well as econometric methods including instrumental variables regression, two-stage least squares, First Difference Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), level GMM and system GMM.

He is a non-executive board member and head of the Governance and Audit Committee at Beltone Financial Holding in Egypt. He also serves on the supervisory committee of two mutual funds operated by the Azimut portfolio management team: the Opportunity Equity Fund and the Menthum Money Market Fund. Abdallah earned his PhD from the University of Salford, United Kingdom.

In 2024, Abdallah served as faculty advisor for the AUC team in the CFA Research Challenge. Competing against 25 Egyptian universities, the team won first place nationally under his mentorship. The team went on to represent AUC for the first time in its history at the MENA Regional Societies Research Challenge in Abu Dhabi, where they competed against universities from nine countries and secured first place. This achievement highlighted Abdallah’s mentorship and his commitment to fostering excellence in finance.

He is also co-founder of Finomics, a competition designed to provide students with practical experience in the stock market and regulatory frameworks. His leadership was instrumental in securing partnerships with six corporate entities to support the initiative and in implementing a prize structure that recognizes and rewards top performers across categories.