Tarik Yousef el-Magariaf is an economist who has worked as the chief executive of Silatech and as a member of the

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's Global Agenda Council on the Arab World. He specializes in economies of the Arab world.

Biography

Education

Yousef received his Ph.D. in Economics from

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and his B.S. from the

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a Public university, public research university in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1876, the university is organized into nine colleges and schools and offers 420 undergraduate and gra ...

in Economics.

Career

Dr. Tarik Yousef is an economist and academic who has worked in various academic and policy-making roles. Between 1998 and 2006, he served as an assistant professor of economics in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service and Professor of Arab Studies at

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

in Washington, D.C. In 2007, he was appointed as the second dean of the

Dubai School of Government The Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, is a research and teaching institution located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Original founded in 2005 as the Dubai School of Government, public policy in the Arab world is the focus of the institu ...

(DSG), now known as the Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government, a graduate school of public policy and international affairs in Dubai. However, his tenure as Dean was short-lived, lasting only until 2010, when four of the nine faculty members resigned. Consequently, DSG lost its academic accreditation and its affiliation with Harvard University. In 2011, Yousef joined Silatech, a social development organization focused on youth employment in the Arab world, as its CEO. In addition to his role at Silatech, Yousef has been a Senior Fellow at the

Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global econo ...

since 2007. He co-founded the Middle East Youth Initiative at Brookings Institution, an applied research and policy program aimed at addressing the challenges facing young people in the region, along with

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Other work

He has worked in the past at the Middle East and Africa Department of the

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, as a senior advisor at the Millennium Project with the

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. He was a participant in the second edition of

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, on the topic After the Arab Awakening: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Arab World.Dubai Debates 2 speakers
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Personal life

He is the son of

Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf Mohammed Yousef el-Magariaf (also written as Magariaf, Elmegaryaf or Almegaryaf) or, as he writes on his official website, Dr. Mohamed Yusuf Al Magariaf (; born 9 May 1940), is a Libyan politician who served as the President of the General Nationa ...

, Libya's former ambassador to India and the Secretary General of the 1980s group, the National Front for the Salvation of Libya.

Bibliography

The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2007
*[http://www.brookings.edu/research/books/2009/agenerationinwaiting Navtej Dhillon & Tarik Yousef, Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East, Brookings Institution, 2009]

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yousef, Tarik Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American economists Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Oregon alumni Academic staff of Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government