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Seham Farouk

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Sustainable Finance

Dr. Seham Farouk is a public finance and sustainable finance expert at the Egyptian Ministry of Finance. She works on public financial management, green fiscal policy, innovative taxation, sovereign risk, and sustainable finance. She holds a Doctor of Business Administration in Finance from Ain Shams University and an MBA from Paris ESLSCA Business School.

Seham Farouk

Oct 19 2026

Not a crystal ball: how AI can help governments manage debt

Illuminem Voices

Sustainable Finance · Public Governance

Record debt is taking money from development, and debt offices need better early warning, better data and sharper scenarios. AI can help with some of this, but only on solid institutional foundations

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Mohamed Maait

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Micro-sovereign funding: How tokenized bonds can break the sovereign debt trap

Sustainable Finance · Green Bonds

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Beyond buffers: How to engineer sovereign resilience to energy shocks

Energy Management & Efficiency · Sustainable Investment

Beyond buffers: How to engineer sovereign resilience to energy shocks

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