PhD in Economics, Harvard. Formerly with: IMF, World Bank; UN; Georgetown Univ.; Harvard Kennedy School; Silatech. Non-Res. Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Research Fellow, Economic Research Forum; Vice-Chair, Global Agenda Council on the Arab World, World Economic Forum. Author of articles and chapters and editor of volumes and reports: Public Sector Reform in the Middle East and North Africa: The Lessons of Experience (2015); After the Spring: Economic Transitions in the Arab World (2012); Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East (2009).