IFI Director’s Policy Forum

"Dubai and the Dubai School of Government after the economic crisis: What we have learned,
how we are responding"

with
Tarik Yousef
Dean, Dubai School of Government
Non-Resident Senior Public Policy Scholar at the Issam Fares Institute

Date: Thursday July 22, 2010
Time: 1:00 - 2:30pm
Location: Conference Room 314, College Hall, AUB


Short Bio:

Dr. Tarik Yousef is the founding Dean of the Dubai School of Government, and a leading authority on the economies of the Arab world. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, specializing in development economics and economic history. His research and policy experience includes working as an economist and professor at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Millennium Project at the United Nations, and Georgetown University.
At present, he is a Senior Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution, a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and Non-resident Senior Public Policy Scholar at the Issam Fares Institute.