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Hamza Saoudi is a Senior Economist at the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS).
At the PCNS, Hamza Saoudi conducts research on labor market dynamics, social protection systems, and inclusive growth, with a particular focus on Morocco and Africa. He is also interested in macroeconomic stabilization policies, international trade, and long-term economic development.
He has contributed to PCNS projects and publications addressing informality, social protection, and inequality in developing economies.
He also served as the project coordinator of the upcoming Oxford Handbook of the Moroccan Economy, to be published by Oxford University Press in 2026.
Before joining the PCNS in 2017, Hamza Saoudi contributed to the development of quantitative models for bank credit risk management.
Hamza Saoudi holds an engineering degree in Statistics and Applied Economics from the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA), Rabat, Morocco.
He was selected for and took part in the IMF Youth Fellowship Program (2021) and the Raisina Young Fellows Program (2025) of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), where he engaged with international experts and peers on global governance and development issues.
Hamza Saoudi is fluent in Arabic, English, and French.
