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

In line with these, Abdallah is very active in delivering training modules and technical consultation services for senior corporate managers and associate investment bankers in many local and multinational firms and banks, including CIB, CI Capital, and the Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunication (CIT).

Abdallah is a prolific writer and a regular participant in international conferences, seminars, and workshops. He is an expert in applications of non-parametric modeling techniques, such as Neural Networks, CHAID, and CART. Abdallah used highly sophisticated econometrics techniques in his publications, such as instrumental variables regression using two-stage least-squares, First Difference Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), level GMM, and system GMM.

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