Rima ATurk
Last Updated: March 15, 2023
Rima Turk joined the IMF in 2013, working on a range of assignments covering low-income, emerging markets, and advanced economies. She is currently the IMF resident representative in the Union of Comoros, after serving as senior economist in the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, in the European Department, and at the Institute of Capacity Development’s Center for Economics and Finance in Kuwait. Prior to joining the IMF, Ms. Turk was a tenured professor in finance at the Lebanese American University in Beirut and a regular visiting scholar to the Bank of Finland’s Institute for Emerging Economies and to the Université de Strasbourg, Ecole de Management. She has published extensively in top-tier peer-refereed journals, including on financial markets and stability, the sovereign-bank nexus, fragile states, trade diversification, migrant integration, corporate debt limits, and private sector investment. Ms. Turk also presented her research at more than 40 international conferences.
Email: RTURK@imf.org
Personal WebPage: http://econpapers.repec.org/ras/ptu107.htm; http://ssrn.com/author=471991
Fluent In: Arabic, French.
Education:
Ph.D., Banking and Finance, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom, July 2004. Thesis Title: X-Efficiency in Lebanese Banking, a Flexible Stochastic Frontier Approach.
Master’s Degree, Money and Banking (M.M.B.), American University of Beirut, June 1990. Thesis Title: Human Resources Management with respect to Lebanese Banks.
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, American University of Beirut, February 1987, with Distinction. Computer Programming Certificate. American University of Beirut (AUB), June 1988.