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Career Overview
Economist, researcher, and platform builder
I'm an economist and platform builder working at the intersection of data, policy, and technology.
My career has taken me from the University of Chicago to the offices of UN Special Envoys and High-Level Climate Champions — and in parallel, I build the tools that make complex economic data legible and actionable.
I built Vizit, a configuration-driven data visualization platform, because the tools that existed weren't good enough for the questions I was trying to answer. That experience — of seeing a gap and filling it — is how I approach most problems.
I research, I write, I build. Usually all three at once.
Experience
A detailed look at each stop on the journey — click to expand.
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Formal Biography
Ahmed Sherif Zaki is an economist and platform builder based in Cairo. He holds dual degrees in Economics and Political Science (Thesis Honors) from the University of Chicago. His career spans international development finance at the UN, climate policy, executive leadership at the Arab Society for Economic Research, and academic publishing with Oxford University Press and Palgrave Macmillan. He is the creator of Vizit, a data visualization platform for economic intelligence, and currently works at Potentia on the 2043 Project.
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