Noran Aly was born and raised in Egypt by an Egyptian father and a Syrian mother, with six younger sisters. This initially aroused her interest to understand the lives of vulnerable families of similar numbers, but living under dire conditions. She took her first step by obtaining her bachelor degree in Economics with a minor in Statistics from Cairo University. Noran recently worked as an economic researcher at the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, where she delved deeper into the realm of public policy and socio-economic programs’ technicalities. One of the challenging strategic programs that Noran took part in was the “Programs and Performance-Based Budgeting” in collaboration with the USAID, through being co-responsible for monitoring and evaluating the ministries’ performance indicators on the central level. Noran’s work and academic experiences ultimately shaped her mindset to look forward to exploring brand-new approaches of strategic planning and evaluation techniques of poverty alleviation to help livelihood and food security projects meet their intended results and impact on their beneficiaries, especially in rural areas of Egypt, and possibly on the global level.