Areas of Interest:

• Growth and Sustainable Development

Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, St. Antony's College, Oxford University, UK, 1989
• M.Sc., Economics, London School of Economics, 1986
• B.A., Economics & Politics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1983

Experience:

• Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science - present
• Bank of England - 2017
• Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Apr.2011
• Director General, Country Programmes, Department for International Development (DFID), Oct.2004-Mar.2011
• Vice-President, Infrastructure, World Bank, May2003-Sep.2004

Latest Publications:

• “From Player to Referee: The Changing Role of Competition Policies and Regulation in the Middle East and North Africa,” (with John Page and Joe Saba), in The Role of the State in a Changing Arab Economic Environment, edited by Taher Kanaan, published by the International Monetary Fund, the Arab Monetary Fund and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, forthcoming.
• "Multiple Trade Shocks and Partial Liberalization: The Egyptian Experience," in Temporary Trade Shocks edited by D. Bevan, P. Collier, and J. Gunning, Oxford University Press, 2002
• "Labor Migration and Economic Integration in the Middle East," in Middle East Dilemma: The Political Economy of Arab Integration, edited by Michael Hudson, New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.