Riad al Khouri
Senior Economist, William Davidson Institute

 
in a Presentation:

The Middle East Institute is proud to host Riad al Khouri for a discussion about Middle East economies. After briefly introducing the region's links to slumping world markets, al Khouri will explore how several Middle East economies are avoiding a 'Dubai-type meltdown' and generally prospering despite the regional downturn. Among such exceptions are Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Iraqi Kurdistan; he will argue that these three are doing better than most of the rest of the region, each for different reasons. Nevertheless, threats loom that could put one or more of them in a precarious position in the coming twelve months.

BIO:
Riad al Khouri is currently dean of the Business School at the Lebanese French University in Erbil, Iraq, and senior economist in the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. A former visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, al Khouri is a member of the Lebanese Economic Association and of the Council for British Research in the Levant. He has undertaken consulting or training assignments for OPEC fund, UNDP, USAID, the World Bank, the WTO and the European Commission, among many other public sector organizations.

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