Amr Adly has a Ph.D. from the European University Institute-Florence, Department of Political and Social Sciences. He is currently the ARD Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, where he is leading a research project on reforming the regulatory environment governing entrepreneurship after the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia. Before joining Stanford's CDDRL, Adly worked as a senior researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, where he headed the unit of social and economic rights. He was previously a diplomat with the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.