Rabah Arezki is the former Chief Economist and Vice President for Economic Governance and Knowledge Management at the African Development Bank and a director of research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), a senior fellow at the Foundation for Studies and Research on International Development (FERDI) and a senior fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Previously, he was the Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region at the World Bank. He was also the Chief of the Commodities Unit in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund and a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is also an external research associate at the University of Oxford, research fellow at the CESifo and the Economic Research Forum, and a resource person for the African Economic Research Consortium. Mr. Arezki received his M.S. from the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique in Paris , M.A. from the University of Paris-1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and Ph.D. in economics from the European University Institute.