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Mary Kraetsch

Mary Kraetsch is an advisor to the Middle East Youth Initiative. She previously served as a research analyst for the Initiative at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings. Prior to joining Brookings, she was research assistant for the 2008 Egypt Human Development Report and research coordinator for the Gender Economic Research and Policy Analysis (GERPA) Initiative. She also worked as a research analyst for Environmental Quality International, a consulting firm in Egypt. She received her Master’s of Public Policy from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. 

 

Middle East Youth Initiative Publications:

Missed by the Boom, Hurt by the Bust: Making Markets Work for Young People in the Middle East
Navtej Dhillon, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Paul Dyer, Tarik Yousef, Amina Fahmy and Mary Kraetsch, May 2009

Recent Commentary:

Youth in Focus: Findings from the 2010 Egypt Human Development Report
Mary Kraetsch and Heba Handoussa, 29 June 2010

Taking Stock of the Youth Challenge in the Middle East: New Data and New Questions
Samantha Constant and Mary Kraetsch, 15 June 2010

Recent Presentations:

Panel Discussion on Marginalized Groups and Development in the MENA Region (Powerpoint presentation)
American University, Washington, D.C., 3 April 2009

Youth Exclusion and Political Violence: Breaking the Link and Engaging Young People Positively in Development
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway, 4-5 December 2008