Ayman Zohry

Egypt Egypt

Adjunct Professor at Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and Egyptology, The American University in Cairo

Education

Ayman Zohry (Ph.D., University of Sussex, 2002) is a demographer and expert on migration studies based in Cairo, Egypt. He was born in Souhag, Egypt in 1964. He is a leading researcher in the field of migration studies in Egypt with a special focus on illegal migration. Dr. Zohry has about 20 years of experience in the field of population studies and migration research. He started his career working as a junior demographer at the National Population Council (Egypt) from 1987 until joining the Cairo Demographic Center in 1992 to study for two diplomas in demography and population and development, then a Master of Philosophy in Demography in 1995 with specialization in family planning prog.