Tarik Mohamed Yousef was appointed in March 2011 as Chief Executive Officer of Silatech.

He began his career in 1997 as an economist at the International Monetary Fund, and joined the faculty of Georgetown University in 1999, where he held the positions of Associate Professor of Economics in the School of Foreign Service and Sheikh Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah Chair of Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Between 2006 and 2010, he served as the Founding Dean of the Dubai School of Government and nonresident Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He co-founded the Middle East Youth Initiative at the Brookings Institution in 2007, where he has since served as nonresident Senior Fellow.

He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University. An expert on youth inclusion and policy reform in the Arab world, he has contributed over 50 articles and chapters, and co-edited several volumes and reports including: Unlocking the Employment Potential in the Middle East and North Africa: Toward A New Social Contract (World Bank, 2004); The Arab World Competitiveness Report: Sustaining the Growth Momentum (World Economic Forum, 2007); Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East; (Brookings, 2009); After the Spring: Economic Transition in the Arab World (Oxford University Press, 2012); and, Public Sector Reform in the Middle East and North Africa: The Lessons of Experience (World Bank, 2013).

His policy experience includes working at the African and Middle East Departments of the International Monetary Fund, the Middle East and North Africa Region at World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Millennium Project at the UN. At present, he is nonresident Senior Fellow at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy at the American University in Beirut; Research Fellow of the Economic Research Forum; member of the MENA Advisory Panel at the World Bank; and, Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Arab World, 2011-2013.

He is a regular media commentator, public speaker and advisor to international institutions, governments and corporations on Middle Eastern affairs.

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