Ahmed Dawoud is an applied economist specialising in causal inference and Bayesian methods, with more than nine years turning quantitative evidence into decisions for senior executives, government ministers and development partners, including the World Bank and USAID.
He is Head of Research at Thirty Five Investment Holding in Qatar, where he works with the investment team on due diligence, feasibility analysis and opportunity screening across critical minerals, energy, infrastructure, food security and real estate in Africa, Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
He is also a Consultant to the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies (ECES), where he spent nine years rising from Research Analyst to Principal Economist and Head of the data science unit, where he led a team of economists and AI engineers, directed donor-funded policy research briefed to ministers, and built Egypt's first real-time labour-demand platform.
Previously, as Head of Decision Science at ProfitOPS.ai, he led causal-AI work for Fortune 100 clients including UPS and WestRock, and created ProRCA, an open-source tool that traces falling business KPIs to their root causes.
He has authored more than 15 studies, research papers and reports on trade, AI and labour markets, and Egypt–Gulf relations, and holds an honours economics degree, with a minor in statistics, from Cairo University.
