Masood Ahmed is Director of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department. Between 2003 and 2006 he served as Director General for Policy and International Development at the U.K. government's Department for International Development. He previously held positions in the IMF and the World Bank, working on areas that included international economic policy relating to debt, aid effectiveness, trade, and global economic prospects. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics.
Latest Posts:
- Learning to Live with Cheaper Oil in the Middle East
- Arab Economic Transformation Amid Political Transitions
- Support the People, Not Energy in the Middle East and North Africa
- Financial Support for Arab Countries in Transition
- Arab Countries in Transition Under the Spotlight
- Meeting the Employment Challenge in the GCC
- Bringing the Informal Sector into the Fold
- What to Do About Unemployment in the Caucasus and Central Asia
- Mideast Braces Itself for a Multi-Year Transition
- What the Arab Spring Has Taught Us
- Inflation in the Middle East—Looking at the Right Numbers
- The MENA Jobs and Growth Challenge: How Can Finance Help?
- Subsidies—Love Them or Hate Them, It’s Better to Target Them
- Unleashing Growth Potential in the Middle East
- Is There a Silver Lining to Sluggish Credit Growth in the Gulf Countries?
- More than 18 Million Jobs Needed!
- Raising Competitiveness: Recipe for Tapping into the Middle East’s Growth Potential
- Reviving Credit Growth in the Caucasus and Central Asia: What Can Policymakers Do?
- Downturn After Boom: Slow Credit Growth in Middle East, North Africa
- IMF Youth Dialog: Addressing Mideast Unemployment
- Unlocking Central Asia’s Huge Potential
- Did Islamic Banks in the Gulf Do Better Than Conventional Ones in the Crisis?
- Mideast Oil Exporters Face the Crisis Head On