Tarik Yousef

Professor of Arab Studies

Georgetown University, USA

Day 2 Session 2

Tarik Yousef is currently Sheikh Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah Chair in Arab Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. After receiving his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1997, he worked as an economist in the Middle East and African departments of the IMF until 1999. Dr. Yousef specializes in development economics and economic history with a particular focus on the Middle East. He has written and published widely on demography, labor markets, trade integration and the political economy of reform. During the academic year 2002-2003, Dr. Yousef was on leave at the Middle East and North Africa Region of the World Bank where he completed a report for the 2003 Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Dubai: Unlocking the Employment Potential in the Middle East and North Africa: Toward A New Social Contract (World Bank, 2004). At present, he is also a consultant to the UN Millennium Project, the World Bank and various US government institutions.