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A competent policy-oriented economist with 10 years of international professional experience at leading entities including universities, commercial banks, and companies; with proficiency in statistical analysis and data modelling, experience in managing large data sets and in-depth knowledge of fiscal policy, economic risk and uncertainty, and econo- metric forecasting models sufficient to enable innovation and new understanding in the field by developing a promising re- search agenda.

Research Interests

• Macroeconomics (Fiscal Policy).

• Econometrics (Forecasting using Dynamic-factor Models) and Quantitative Methods.

• Economic Uncertainty and Risk Management.

• International Economics Policy and Energy Economics (Oil and Energy Markets in the MENA Region.

Postgraduate & Professional training

• Open Economy DSGE Modelling with Applications to Emerging Economies at City, University of London, Macroeconomics Research Group, England, United Kingdom in 2023.

• Open Economy DSGE Modelling with Applications to Emerging Economies at City, University of London, Macroeconomics Research Group, England, United Kingdom in 2022.

• Advanced Course on Continuous-Time Methods in Macroeconomics with Applications to Machine Learning at the University of Oxford, England, United Kingdom in 2021.

• Advanced Course in Integrated Macroeconomic-Epidemiology Modelling at City, University of London, Macroeconomics Research Group, England, United Kingdom in 2021.

• Dynare Summer School on Macroeconomic Modeling and Estimation with Dynare at the Julius Maximilians University of Wu ̈rzburg, Germany in 2021.

• International Monetary Fund (IMF) 2021

• Advanced Course: Macroeconometric Forecasting and Analysis.

• Advanced Course: Monetary and Fiscal Interactions in DSGE Models.

•  Tools for Macroeconomists: The Essentials and Advanced Computational Techniques and Methods to Solve Nonlinear DSGE Models at the University of Oxford, Department of Economics, England, United Kingdom 2020.

• Advanced DSGE Modelling Summer Course with Occasionally Binding Constraints at the Centre for International Macroeconomic Studies, the University of Surrey, England, United Kingdom 2020.

• Summer Course on Bayesian Methods for Empirical Macroeconomics at Lancaster University, Department of Economics, England, United Kingdom 2020.

• Autumn School on ”Social Policy in Oil-Based Economies” at the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 2017.

•  A semester abroad at Lebanese American University, Department of Economics, Beirut, Lebanon 2016.

• Workshop on Health Economics Evaluation: Cost Effectiveness Analysis. At World Health Organization, The Regional Office of Eastern Mediterranean WHO-EMRO in 2015.

• Postgraduate Diploma in Social Science Research Methods for Guiding Policy and Evaluation. Social Research Centre at the American University in Cairo, Egypt in 2014.