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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. Previously, he was the Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region at the World Bank. Mr. Arezki is also a frequent contributor to Finance and Development magazine, VoxEU, an associate editor of the Revue d’Economie du Développement and was the Editor of the IMF Research Bulletin.
Arezki is also a frequent contributor to Project Syndicate, Foreign Policy, Le Monde, VoxEU, Finance and Development, and Jeune Afrique. Prior to that, Rabah Arezki was the Chief of the Commodities Unit in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. In addition, Arezki is a research fellow with the Economic Research Forum based in Cairo.
Previously, Arezki was chief economist and vice president for the Economic Governance and Knowledge Management complex at the African Development Bank.
Mr. Arezki’s research covers a wide array of topics energy and commodities markets, international macro and development economics, and the economics of the Middle East and Africa. Many of Mr. Arezki’s research papers have been published or cited extensively in academic circles and in prominent media outlets such as the Economist, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Project Syndicate, Barron’s, Le Monde, Foreign Policy, Jeune Afrique, and the Washington Post.
Rabah Arezki
Saudi Arabia’s Great Transformation
With its Vision 2030 plan, Saudi Arabia is attempting to move away from economic dependence on hydrocarbons. He also was a senior fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, an external research associate at the University of Oxford, a resource person for the African Economic Research Consortium and a research fellow at the Economic Research Forum.
He is currently a research director at the CNRS and a member of the FERDI's Chair working group on the international architecture of financing for development.
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- November 26, 2025 > November 27, 2025International Conference: The Scramble for Critical MineralsClermont-Ferrand, FranceOn November 26–27, 2025, FERDI, CERDI, and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy organised an international conference on the scramble for critical minerals.
- Call for Papers - Oxford Review of Economic PolicyClermont-Ferrand
- Banque de France - FERDI seminar.
Dr. Arezki’s research covers a wide array of topics including development economics international macroeconomics, energy and resource economics and the economics of Africa and the Middle East.
Dr. But before he can deliver on these campaign promises, he first must shore up the country's democratic institutions and system. Dr. Arezki is also a frequent contributor to Project Syndicate, Foreign Policy,Le Monde, Al Jazeera, Finance and Development, Jeune Afrique, an associate editor of the Revue d’Economie du Développement and was the Editor of the IMF Research Bulletin.
Prior to that he was 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, a research fellow at the CESifo, a non-resident research fellow at the Navarra Center for International Development, a resource person at the African Economic Research Consortium and a research fellow at the Economic Research Forum.
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in economics from the European University Institute.
Rabah Arezki
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.
He also served as chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa region at the World Bank, chief of the Commodities unit within the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund, and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution, among many other positions and affiliations.
Arezki has authored and co-authored numerous academic journal articles and other publications for different outlets including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Development Economics and Economic Policy.
Research Areas
- Development Economics
- International Macroeconomics
- Energy and Commodities
- Economic policy
Other Areas of Interest
- Governance
- Development Finance
- Geopolitics
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, European University Institute in Florence, Italy, 2006.
- M.S., Statistics and Economics, Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE), France, 2003.
Articles
The Trump Shock Will Drive a Global Decoupling
Trump's tariff push is accelerating a costly decoupling between the Global North and South, disrupting supply chains, rattling markets and exposing deep vulnerabilities in the global trade and financial system.
Rabah Arezki, Tarik M.
Yousef
Senegal’s Election and Africa’s Future
Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s resounding victory in Senegal's presidential election gives him strong mandate to pursue measures against corruption and in favor of economic inclusion. 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. Given the vast resources that the kingdom is deploying, the enthusiasm shown by young Saudis, and the speed at which reforms are moving forward, the strategy could ultimately benefit the entire Middle East. Arezki is the author and co-author of numerous academic journal publications and other publications, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Nature, the Economic Journal, the European Economic Review, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, and Economic Policy.
Tarik M. Yousef, Rabah Arezki
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Rabah Arezki
Rabah Arezki is Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and a former Chief Economist and Vice President, Economic Governance and Knowledge Management at the African Development Bank and a Senior Fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School.
Previously, Rabah Arezki was the Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region at the World Bank.