Amira El-Sayed
Essayist · EM FX flows & politics
Knight-Wallace fellow · EM markets columnist
At a glance
- Education & credentials
- MA Journalism, AUC · BA Economics
- Markets experience
- 12+ years financial journalism & analysis
- Languages
- Arabic · English · Turkish
- Base / focus
- Cairo — Istanbul
About
Amira turns noisy EM headlines into coherent flow stories: how subsidy shifts, tourist FX queues, or tax repatriation windows spill into spot and NDF markets. She edits our monthly EM risk digest and co-hosts the policy roundtables.
Focus areas
- Carry regimes when funding dries up fast
- Sovereign credit headlines vs spot knee-jerk risk
- Translating local politics into volatility skew
Blog articles
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Selected essays
- Tourism dollars and the FX queue psychology
- NDF gaps when calendars collide with politics