Samah El-Shahat

Al Jazeera English

Samah El-Shahat

Samah El-Shahat is Aljazeera English's economic analyst. She has been the presenter of People and Power, Aljazeera's award winning investigative programme for the last 5 years. Samah is currently working on a series on the global economy and the role that economic theory has played in the financial and economic crisis we now face. The aim of the series of films is to debunk the orthodox thinking in economics. "Rebel Economics" will air in September 2012. Samah is also a development economist, and has been a consultant to the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Canadian Government, and Foundation for International Training (FIT) and the United Nations. Samah's research focuses on how unequal power between firms in national systems of innovation impact on how they innovate and acquire technological capability.