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The war in Ukraine has echoed on the MENA countries’ economies, derailing their trajectory of post-Covid recovery. With trade disruption, increasing prices of commodities, the risk of food insecurity, and growing public debts, the long-term consequences of the current crisis will impact on the region for the years to come. This event provides expert analyses and prospects on the war’s impact on economic challenges, growth and macro-economic reforms.

In this framework, the Policy Center for the New South, the Italian Institute for International Political Studies and the Middle East Institute are co-organizing a webinar on the theme “Facing the Economic Shocks” on Thursday, February 23, 2023 from 15:00 to 15:45 GMT+1.

This event will be broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube. Viewers are welcome to interact with the panelists through the comments section.


Agenda

15h00-15h45

Facing the Economic Shocks

Moderator:

-Abdelaaziz Aït Ali, Manager of the Economics Department, Policy Center for the New South (PCNS)
 

Speakers:

- Aldo Liga, Research Fellow - Middle East and North Africa Centre and MED Dialogues Conference, Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI)
- Eckart Woertz, Director, GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies
- Karen Young, Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy; Member of the Advisory Council, Middle East Institute (MEI)
Speakers
Abdelaaziz Ait Ali
Head - Research in Economics
Abdelaaziz Ait Ali is a principal Economist and head of the Research Department at the Policy Center for the New South. He joined the Center in 2014 after five years of experience at the Central Bank of Morocco. He worked as an economist in the International Studies and Relations Department and was analyzing the real estate price index and financial asset prices for monetary policy and financial stability purposes. Since then, Abdelaaziz has focused on cyclical and structural issues of the Moroccan economy, including macroeconomic management and industrial policy design. He has published articles on the reform of the exchange rate regime in the Moroccan economy and its implications for macroeconomic regulation, as well as on the evolution of the macroeconomic framework over th ...
Aldo Liga
Research Fellow - Middle East and North Africa Centre and MED Dialogues Conference, Italian Institute for International Political
Aldo Liga is Research Fellow for the MENA Centre at ISPI. He holds a Bachelor’s in Political Sciences from the “Cesare Alfieri” (University of Florence) and a Master’s in International Security from Sciences Po Paris. Since 2016, he has worked as freelance analyst, providing for policy analyses and research consultancies on mixed migration from Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and North Africa and on the geopolitics of the MENA region for a wide range of actors (public institutions, think-tanks, and NGOs). Prior to joining ISPI, he worked as Innovation for Economic Development Desk Manager at the Italian Trade Agency in Paris and as Field Manager for a Swiss NGO, IMPACT Initiatives, undertaking assessments, monitoring & evaluation and research activities on migration flows ...
Eckart Woertz
Director, GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies
Eckart Woertz is senior research fellow at CIDOB, the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs and scientific advisor to the Kuwait Chair at Sciences Po in Paris. Formerly he was a visiting fellow at Princeton University, director of economic studies at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai and worked for banks in Germany and the United Arab Emirates. He teaches at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI) and was KSP visiting professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at SciencesPo. ...
Karen Young
Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy; Member of the Advisory Council, Middle East Institute (MEI)
Dr. Karen E. Young is a political economist focusing on the Gulf, the broader MENA region and the intersection of energy, finance and security. She is a Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy. She was a Senior Fellow and Founding Director of the Program on Economics and Energy at the Middle East Institute, and currently serves as chair of the program's advisory council. She was a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and has been a professorial lecturer at George Washington University, teaching courses on the international relations of the Middle East. She regularly teaches at the US Dept of State Foreign Service Institute. Earlier, she was Senior Resident Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute and a Research Fello ...