Tarik Yousef - World Economic Forum on Europe 2011

Dr. Tarik Yousef el-Magariaf is the chief executive of Silatech, a social initiative for youth employment and entrepreneurship in the Arab world.

Tarik was an Associate Professor of Economics in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, at Georgetown University. He is the son of Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf, Libya's former ambassador to India and the Secretary General of the 1980s group, the National Front for the Salvation of Libya. Tarik served one term at the Dubai School of Government (2007–2011) as its second dean, following Yassar Jarrar. Tarik was a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution He has worked in the past at the Middle East Department of the International Monetary Fund, as a Senior Advisor at the Millennium Project with the United Nations, and at the Office of the Chief Economist in Middle East and North Africa Region at the World Bank.

Dr. Yousef received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and his B.S. from the University of Oregon in Economics. His current research focuses on global economics and development, the political economy of labor reform, dynamics of labor markets, development policies in oil-exporting countries, and on the economy of Egypt and the Middle East.