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Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund;

Affiliated Researcher, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge;

Senior Research Advisor, Center of Technology and Industrialization for Development (TIDE), University of Oxford

Reda Cherif is a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, a Senior Research Advisor at the Center of Technology and Industrialization for Development (TIDE), University of Oxford, and a Fellow at the Royal Society for the Arts. He joined the IMF in 2008, as part of the Economist Program, and worked in several departments: in the Fiscal Affairs Department, where he was an economist on the Gabon program; in the Middle East and Central Asia Department, where he covered Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain; and in the African Department, where he worked in the Regional Studies Division, issuing analytical work on trade, competition and oil economies. He has published numerous articles on the energy transition, public debt dynamics, commodity exporters, development, industrial policy, growth, and innovation. His work was published in the Journal of Development Economics and World Development among others, and it was featured in the Economist, Financial Times and National Geographics. He is the co-editor, with Fuad Hasanov and Min Zhu, of Breaking the Oil Spell, a book studying economic diversification in oil exporters. Reda holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund;

Adjunct Professor of Economics, Georgetown University;

Affiliated Researcher, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge;

Senior Research Advisor, Center of Technology and Industrialization for Development (TIDE), University of Oxford

Fuad Hasanov is a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), an Adjunct Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, an Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, a Senior Research Advisor at the Center of Technology and Industrialization for Development (TIDE), University of Oxford, and a Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts. Since joining the IMF in 2007, he has worked as an economist for several emerging countries and natural resource producers and conducted training of IMF staff and government officials. Before joining the IMF, Fuad was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan in 2004-2007. He has written articles on consumption and saving, real estate returns, growth and inequality, fiscal policy and debt, natural resources, and growth, innovation, and industrial policy. His book, co-edited with Reda Cherif and Min Zhu, Breaking the Oil Spell, explores economic diversification in oil exporters. Fuad received a PhD in economics from the University of Texas at Austin.